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Animal ecologist, biogeographer, author of first American book on animal ecology in 1913, founded ecological energetics [82] [83] Friedrich Ratzel: 1844–1904: German geographer who first coined the term biogeography in 1891. Frederic Clements: 1874–1945: Authored the first influential American ecology book in 1905 [84] Victor Ernest ...
J. Philip Grime (UK) Peter J. Grubb (UK) Ernst Haeckel (Germany) Nelson Hairston (United States) Henry Paul Hansen (United States) Ilkka Hanski ; Garrett Hardin (United States) John L. Harper (UK) John William Harshberger (United States) Jeff Harvey (United States) Alan Hastings (United States) C.S. Holling (Canada) Stephen P. Hubbell (United ...
Eighteen issues were mimeographed and distributed, ultimately, to more than 200 pollen researchers and interested scientists in North America and Europe. In issue 8, Sears reported on a suggestion by H.A. Hyde and D.A. Williams that this new science be named “ palynology ,” a term for this new field which was ultimately adopted by his ...
Stephen Alfred Forbes (May 29, 1844 – March 13, 1930) [2] was the first chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, [3] a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology. His publications are striking for their merger of extensive field observations with conceptual insights.
The translation of Warming's term into English as "Oecology" led to Cowles becoming one of the primary popularizers of the term ecology in the United States. Cowles was one of the founding members of the Ecological Society of America in 1915. [10] Cowles married Elizabeth Waller in 1900, and their daughter Harriet was born in 1912. [1]
Edith Gertrude Clements (1874–1971), also known as Edith S. Clements and Edith Schwartz Clements, was an American botanist and pioneer of botanical ecology who was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Nebraska. [1] [2] She was married to botanist Frederic Clements, with whom she collaborated throughout her professional ...
George Evelyn Hutchinson ForMemRS (January 30, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a British ecologist sometimes described as the "father of modern ecology." [2] He contributed for more than sixty years to the fields of limnology, systems ecology, radiation ecology, entomology, genetics, biogeochemistry, a mathematical theory of population growth, art history, philosophy, religion, and anthropology. [3]
Roberts as professor at Vassar College. Edith Adelaide Roberts (1881–1977) was an American botanist studying plant physiology and a pioneer in plant ecology.She created the first ecological laboratory in the United States, promoted natural landscaping along with Elsa Rehmann, and proved that plants were the main source of vitamin A.