odum in A Sentence

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    In September 1940, Odum took a job as an instructor of biology at the University of Georgia(Athens, Georgia).

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    Before Odum, the ecology of specific organisms and environments had been studied on a more limited scale within individual sub-disciplines of biology.

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    Odum's will stipulated that, after his death, his 26 acres(110,000 m2) on the Middle Oconee River in Athens, Ga. would be sold and developed according to plans he laid out before his death.

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    Odum's financial contributions were focused on not only the University of Georgia, but also the University of Virginia given his son's faculty appointment there, and the University of North Carolina where his father was a prolific scholar.

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    By 1970, when the first Earth Day was organized, Odum's conception of the living Earth as a global set of interlaced ecosystems became one of the key insights of the environmental movement that has since spread through the world.

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    Eugene Odum, a founder of ecology, defined an ecosystem as:"Any unit that includes all of the organisms… in a given area interacting with the physical environment so that a flow of energy leads to clearly defined trophic structure, biotic diversity, and material cycles(i.e., exchange of materials between living and nonliving parts) within the system.

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    Eugene Odum, a founder of ecology, stated:"Any unit that includes all of the organisms(ie: the"community") in a given area interacting with the physical environment so that a flow of energy leads to clearly defined trophic structure, biotic diversity, and material cycles(i.e.: exchange of materials between living and nonliving parts) within the system is an ecosystem.

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