During the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, ornithology was deeply subdivided into systematic ornithology and field ornithology (natural history of birds). In the early 1920s, Erwin Stresemann (1889--1972) in Berlin, Germany, initiated the integration of both branches into a unified New Avian Biology through a change of the editorial policy of Journal für Ornithologie and through the publication of his large volume Aves (1927--1934) in Handbuch der Zoologie which became the founding document of modern ornithology in central Europe (Stresemann revolution). It was quickly recognized that birds are well suited for studies into the problems of functional morphology, physiology, ecology, behaviour, and orientation of animals. The Stresemann revolution went unnoticed in Great Britain, where the established editorial policy of the leading ornithological journal, The Ibis, from the 1920s to the mid-1940s was to publish articles based on a traditional definition of science, fact-gathering rather than answering open questions. Several authors who had published biological studies since 1900 remained on the fringes of British ornithology. One of these was David Lack (1910--1973) who, during the mid-1940s, was able to introduce the New Avian Biology to the United Kingdom against the resistance of the majority of conservatively minded older British ornithologists. As his own contributions to the New Avian Biology, Lack added the broad fields of evolutionary ecology and population biology of birds which, under his leadership, became the major research topics of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford. Keywords. New Avian Biology, paradigm change, Erwin Stresemann, David Lack
...MoreDescription Includes discussion of major ornithological journals of the early 20th century.
Book
Birkhead, T R;
Wimpenny, Jo;
Montgomerie, Robert D;
(2014)
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
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Article
Erlingsson, Steindór J.;
(2013)
Institutions and Innovation: Experimental Zoology and the Creation of the British Journal of Experimental Biology and the Society for Experimental Biology
(/isis/citation/CBB001252458/)
Book
Haffer, Jürgen;
Rutschke, Erich;
Wunderlich, Klaus;
(2000)
Erwin Stresemann (1889-1972): Leben und Werk eines Pioniers der wissenschaftlichen Ornithologie
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Book
Haffer, Jürgen;
Rutschke, Erich;
Wunderlich, Klaus;
(2004)
Erwin Stresemann (1889-1972)---Leben und Werk eines Pioniers der wissenschaftlichen Ornithologie
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Book
Anderson, Ted R;
(2013)
The Life of David Lack: Father of Evolutionary Ecology
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Article
Birkhead, T. R.;
Balen, S. van;
(2008)
Bird-Keeping and the Development of Ornithological Science
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Article
Lachmund, Jens;
(2015)
Strange Birds: Ornithology and the Advent of the Collared Dove in Post-World War II Germany
(/isis/citation/CBB001552011/)
Article
Rieppel, Olivier;
Williams, David M.;
Ebach, Malte C.;
(2013)
Adolf Naef (1883--1949): On Foundational Concepts and Principles of Systematic Morphology
(/isis/citation/CBB001320041/)
Chapter
Leven., Karl-Heinz;
(2001)
“Das Banner dieser Wissenschaft will ich aufpflanzen”: Medizinhistorische Zeitschriften in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts
(/isis/citation/CBB000102616/)
Article
Bont, Raf de;
(2011)
Poetry and Precision: Johannes Thienemann, the Bird Observatory in Rossitten and Civic Ornithology, 1900--1930
(/isis/citation/CBB001034556/)
Article
Miracle, M. Eulàlia Gassó;
(2011)
On Whose Authority? Temminck's Debates on Zoological Classification and Nomenclature: 1820--1850
(/isis/citation/CBB001220949/)
Article
Ghiselin, Michael T.;
(2008)
British Use and Support of the Naples Zoological Station Prior to the First World War
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Article
Fox, Anthony D.;
Beasley, Patrick D. L.;
(2010)
David Lack and the Birth of Radar Ornithology
(/isis/citation/CBB001031442/)
Article
Erlingsson, Steindór J.;
(2009)
The Plymouth Laboratory and the Institutionalization of Experimental Zoology in Britain in the 1920s
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Thesis
Epting, Susan;
(2012)
Casualties of the Spirit: The Development of Military Psychology and Psychiatry in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, 1914--1945
(/isis/citation/CBB001562791/)
Chapter
Bissell, Chris C.;
(2009)
Forging a New Discipline: Reflections on the Wartime Infrastructure for Research and Development in Feedback Control in the US, the UK, Germany and the USSR
(/isis/citation/CBB000960224/)
Book
Cain, Joe;
(2004)
Exploring the Borderlands: Documents of the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology, and Systematics, 1943--1944
(/isis/citation/CBB000742073/)
Thesis
Winn, Wendy Lee;
(2006)
Visualizing Science: A Semiotic Analysis of Visual Representations in Ornithology Journals, 1859--2003
(/isis/citation/CBB001561460/)
Article
Ziemczonok, J.;
(2006)
Konstanty Tyzenhauz (1786--1853): The Originator and Sponsor of Polish Ornithology
(/isis/citation/CBB000931645/)
Article
Vetter, Jeremy;
(2012)
Labs in the Field? Rocky Mountain Biological Stations in the Early Twentieth Century
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