- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Eugene Odum: Coral Reefs
- Creator:
- Odum, Eugene
- Contributor to Resource:
- Video by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Date of Original:
- 2001/2002
- Subject:
- Geography--Georgia
Environment - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Odum, the "father of modern ecology" discusses the unusual organization and sustainability of the coral reef.
Video recording of Eugene Odum, known as the "father of modern ecology," discussing the unusual organization and sustainability of the coral reef. He wears a suit and tie and faces forward. He begins by describing how he and his brother were the first to prove that the coral reef was maintaining itself in equilibrium because of the symbiotic relationship of the coral and the algae. He describes it as "beautifully organized." He then states that the quickest way to kill a coral reef is to fertilize it because it creates imbalance. He states that the "coral reef is easily killed by being too kind to it."
Odum joined the Department of Zoology at the University of Georgia in the fall of 1940. He retired in 1984, leaving his position as director of the Institute of Ecology, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Zoology, and Callaway Professor of Ecology. Odum, called "the father of modern ecology," brought the word ecosystem into common parlance by making it the organizing concept in his 1953 Fundamentals of Ecology. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/eugene-odum-1913-2002/odum___coral_reef_t1/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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