PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER - AUTHOR OF THE FIRST GRAPHIC FOOD CHAINS SCHEME

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The drawing of Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder “The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish” reflects perhaps not political allusions, as it is interpreted in the history of art, but a graphic food-chains scheme. It is possible that the picture engraving, stored in the British Museum, has influenced the creation of the food-chains concept by British ecologists Johnstone [1], Hardy [2] and Elton [3]. The taxonomic attachment of organisms depicted in the drawing has been determined.

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A A Nikol’skii

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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Email: nikolskiy_aa@rudn.university

Nikolsky Alexander Alexandrovich - Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor; Professor of the Department of System Ecology of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.

Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6, Moscow, Russia, 117198

E V Mikodina

Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography

Email: mikodina@vniro.ru

Mikodina Ekaterina Viktorovna - Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor. Head of the postgraduate department of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography.

Verkhnyaya Krasnosel’skaya str., 16, Moscow, Russia, 107140

E A Vanisova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Email: vanisova_ea@rudn.university

Vanisova Elena Aleksandrovna - Candidate of Biological Sciences, Senior Lecturer, Department of System Ecology, Faculty of Ecology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. Phone: +7 (495) 952-89-01, 8-916-141-39-57.

Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6, Moscow, Russia, 117198

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