The group includes Heinrich Engler, an Old World
taxonomist — a name - popper without equal; Frederick Clements, complete with hat, New World champion of the concept of succession, climax and the superorganism (shades of Gaia to come), and Henry Cowles, whose festschrift published 22 years
later not only celebrated his work in the field of ecology but was also the vehicle within which the botanist Sir Arthur George Tansley enunciated the term and the concept of the ecosystem: «More than the sum of its parts».
In this episode, science writer Karen de Seve shares her adventures in the Bering Sea; journalist Dr. John Miller talks about a radiation health conference; and
taxonomist and paleontologist Scott Thomson discusses the
late Harriet the tortoise.