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Science 25 January 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5555, pp. 639 - 640
DOI: 10.1126/science.1064815
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Darwin and the First Ecological Experiment

Andy Hector and Rowan Hooper

Could the very first ecological experiment have taken place in an English country garden? Apparently so, according to the Perspective by Hector and Hooper. These authors describe an elegant series of ecology experiments carried out during the early 19th century by George Sinclair, head gardener to the Duke of Bedford, in the gardens of Woburn Abbey.

A. Hector is at the Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK. E-mail: a.hector01{at}ic.ac.uk R. Hooper is in the Wildlife Conservation Research Team, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba 305-0053, Japan. E-mail: rowhoop{at}gol.com

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