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Robert M. May

Robert M. May (1936–2020) was an Australian-born theoretical physicist who became a founder of modern theoretical ecology, UK chief scientific adviser, and President of the Royal Society.

Robert MacArthur

Robert Helmer MacArthur (1930–1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist at Princeton University who, with E. O. Wilson, founded island biogeography theory and is remembered as a founder of evolutionary ecology.

Simon A. Levin

Simon A. Levin, also published as Simon Levin, is an American mathematical ecologist at Princeton University credited with founding spatial ecology and winner of the Kyoto Prize.

Stephen James Simpson

Stephen James Simpson is an Australian entomologist and nutritional biologist at the University of Sydney, known for locust swarming research and the Geometric Framework for nutrition.

Tim Coulson

Tim Coulson is a British population ecologist and Statutory Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, known for developing integral projection models for population dynamics.

Warder Clyde Allee

Warder Clyde Allee (1885–1955) was an American zoologist and ecologist whose experiments showed animals in groups often survive better than isolated individuals, the Allee effect.

William W. Murdoch

William W. Murdoch is a Scottish-born population ecologist and emeritus professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for predator–prey dynamics and the biological control of California red scale.