Evolutionary ecology and the use of natural selection in ecological theory / James P. Collins.
Abstract:
"In this essay, I address the following related questions: (1) how did ecologists use evolutionary theory before the late 1950s? and (2) in what sense was there a rapproachment between ecology and evolutionary biology during the 1950s and 1960s."
Journal of the history of biology Vol. 19 (1986), p. 257-288