Darwin EcoExperiment - A drawing of a plan of a train station

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Darwin EcoExperiment - A drawing of a plan of a train station

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This shows the Hortus Gramineus, or grass garden, at Woburn Abbey in 1817 which was the site of the first ecological experiment that was mentioned by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species. See:
Hector, A. & Hooper, R. (2002). Darwin and the First Ecological Experiment. Science, 295, 639-640.

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