Charles Sutherland Elton was an English biologist who is credited with describing the “#sociology…
Charles Sutherland Elton was an English biologist who is credited with describing the “#sociology and #economy of animals,” thus outlining the basic principles of modern animal ecology.
He thought of the “community” as a group of species related through the food chains.
Elton developed the idea of a #foodchain in 1927. He described the way plants get energy from sunlight, plant-eating animals get their energy from eating plants, and meat-eating animals get their energy from eating other animals. Elton’s pyramid of numbers shows how energy flow links organisms to form the #biological #community.
In 1932, Elton created the Bureau of #Animal #Population at #Oxford, which was a mecca for ecologists from around the world, until its demise when he retired in 1967.
