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- Elton, Charles S. - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1900-91), English biologist, born in Liverpool; focused on the use of a scientific method to study animals in their natural habitats and their interrelationships with their surroundings; established Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford and became editor of the new Journal of Animal Ecology in 1932; became reader in animal ecology at Oxford and senior research fellow at Corpus Christi College; elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1953; books include ’Animal Ecology’ (1927), ’Animal Ecology and Evolution’ (1930), ’The Control of Rats and Mice’ (1954), and ’The Pattern of Animal Communities’ (1966).