List of ecologists
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- Aziz Ab'SaberAziz Ab'SaberAziz Nacib Ab'Sáber is an environmentalist and one of Brazil´s most respected scientists, honored with the highest awards of Brazilian science in geography, geology, ecology and archaeology...
(BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
) - Charles Christopher AdamsCharles Christopher AdamsCharles Christopher Adams was an American zoologist, born at Clinton, Illinois on July 23, 1873, and educated at Illinois Wesleyan University, Harvard, and the University of Chicago....
(USA) - Warder Clyde AlleeWarder Clyde AlleeWarder Clyde Allee was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect.-University career:...
(USA) - Herbert G. Andrewartha (Australia)
- John BeardJohn Stanley BeardJohn Stanley Beard was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia. While working with the Forestry Division in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s, Beard developed a system of forest classification for Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the...
(UKUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) - William Dwight Billings (USA)
- Louis Charles BirchCharles BirchLouis Charles Birch FAA was an Australian geneticist specialising in population ecology and was also well known as a theologian, writing widely on the topic of science and religion, winning the Templeton Prize in 1990...
(Australia) - Emma Lucy BraunEmma Lucy BraunE. Lucy Braun was a prominent botanist, ecologist, and expert on the forests of the eastern United States.- Life :...
(USA) - James BrownJames Brown (ecologist)James Hemphill Brown , is an American biologist and academic.He is an ecologist, and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico...
(USA) - George BornemisszaGeorge BornemisszaGeorge Francis Bornemissza is a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist. He studied science at the University of Budapest before obtaining his PhD in zoology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in 1950. At the end of that year he emigrated to Australia...
(AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
) - Murray Fife BuellMurray Fife BuellMurray Fife Buell was an American ecologist and palynologist.-Personal life:Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Buell earned a B.S. at Cornell University in 1930. He then attended the University of Minnesota where he earned a M.A. in 1934 and a Ph.D. in 1935. After completing his Ph.D., Buell's...
(USA) - Arthur CainArthur CainArthur James Cain FRS was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989.- Life :...
(USA) - Archie Fairly CarrArchie CarrArchie Fairly Carr, Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist and a pioneering conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. In 1987 he was awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award by the Ecological Society of America...
(USA) - Rachel CarsonRachel CarsonRachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement....
(USA) - F. Stuart Chapin IIIF. Stuart Chapin IIIF. Stuart Chapin III is a professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska...
(USA) - Frederic ClementsFrederic ClementsFrederic Edward Clements was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation succession.-Biography:...
(USA) - Henry Shoemaker ConardHenry Shoemaker ConardHenry Shoemaker Conard was a leading authority on bryophytes and water lilies, as well as an early advocate of environmental preservation. From 1906 to 1955, Professor Conard worked at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa...
(USA) - Joseph H. ConnellJoseph H. ConnellJoseph Hurd Connell is an American ecologist. According to the Ecological Society of America, "Connell’s observations, insights, syntheses, and example have motivated education and research in population and community ecology for over six decades". Among his important works are the Connell–Slatyer...
(USA) - William Skinner CooperWilliam Skinner CooperWilliam Skinner Cooper was an American ecologist.Cooper received his B.S. in 1906 from Alma College in Michigan. In 1909, he entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studied with Henry Chandler Cowles, and completed his Ph.D. in 1911...
(USA) - Charles F. Cooper (ecologist)Charles F. Cooper (ecologist)Charles F. Cooper was an American born ecologist known for his studies of fire ecology and ecosystem management.-Publications:*Cooper, C. F. 1960. Changes in Vegetation, Structure, and Growth of Southwestern Pine Forests since White Settlement. Ecological Monographs 30:129–164....
(USA) - Henry Chandler CowlesHenry Chandler CowlesHenry Chandler Cowles was an American botanist and ecological pioneer . Born in Kensington, Connecticut, he attended Oberlin College in Ohio. He studied at the University of Chicago with the plant taxonomist John M. Coulter and the geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin as main teachers. He...
(USA) - John T. Curtis (USA)
- Pierre DansereauPierre DansereauPierre Dansereau, was a Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology".-Biography:...
(CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
) - Frank Fraser DarlingFrank Fraser DarlingSir Frank Fraser Darling was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland.-Early life:...
(UKUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) - Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.Edward Smith Deevey, Jr. , born in Albany, New York, was a prominent American ecologist and paleolimnologist, and an early protégé of G. Evelyn Hutchinson at Yale University...
(USA) - Rene DubosRené DubosRené Jules Dubos was a French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited as an author of a maxim "Think globally, act locally"...
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- Frank Edwin EglerFrank Edwin EglerFrank Edwin Egler was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation science. He is of historical significance through his assistance to Rachel Carson in preparing Silent Spring....
(USA) - Paul R. EhrlichPaul R. EhrlichPaul Ralph Ehrlich is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera , but...
(USA) - Heinz EllenbergHeinz EllenbergHeinz Ellenberg was a German biologist, botanist and ecologist. Ellenberg was an advocate of viewing ecological systems through holistic means.- Life :...
(GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - Charles S. Elton (UKUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) - Stephen Alfred ForbesStephen Alfred ForbesStephen Alfred Forbes was the first Chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 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...
(USA) - Douglas FutuymaDouglas J. FutuymaDouglas Joel Futuyma is an American biologist.-Academics:Futuyma graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University, and took his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insects and the plants themselves. He was Lawrence B...
(USA) - Henry GleasonHenry GleasonHenry Allan Gleason was a noted American ecologist, botanist, and taxonomist, most recognized for his endorsement of the individualistic/open community concept of ecological succession.- Life and work :...
(USA) - Robert Fiske Griggs (USA)
- J. Philip GrimeJ. Philip GrimeJohn Philip Grime is a prominent British ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield. He is best known for his CSR theory on plant strategies, for the unimodal relationship between species richness and site productivity , for the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, for the DST...
(UK) - Peter J. GrubbPeter J. GrubbPeter J. Grubb is a British ecologist and emeritus professor of botany at Cambridge University. He took his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in 1960 supervised by G.E. Briggs. He subsequently joined the staff of Magdalene College, later becoming a full professor . His early work was mentored by...
(UK) - Nelson HairstonNelson HairstonNelson Hairston Sr. was a preeminent ecologist of the 20th century. Hairston is well-known for his work in ecology and human disease. In the field of ecology he is famous for championing the idea of the trophic cascade, on which he published the provocative “Green World Hypothesis” with colleagues...
(USA) - Henry Paul HansenHenry Paul HansenHenry Paul Hansen was an American palynologist known largely for his pioneering work on the vegetation history of the North American Pacific Northwest and for his time as the dean of Graduate Studies at Oregon State University from 1949 - 1972.-Early life:Henry Hansen was born on the April 28,...
(USA) - Garrett HardinGarrett HardinGarrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation and whose concept of the tragedy of the commons brought attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment"...
(USA) - John L. HarperJohn L. HarperJohn Lander Harper CBE FRS was a British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology.He was born in 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He obtained his degree in Botany in and his MA and MPhil from Oxford...
(UK) - John William HarshbergerJohn William HarshbergerJohn W. Harshberger, was the US botanist who in 1895 coined the term "Ethnobotany".-References:...
(USA) - Jeff HarveyJeff HarveyJeff Harvey is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Multitrophic Interactions at the , and formerly an associate editor of Nature.Harvey specializes in research concerning:...
(USA) - C.S. Holling (CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
) - Stephen Hubbell (USA)
- G. Evelyn HutchinsonG. Evelyn HutchinsonGeorge Evelyn Hutchinson FRS was an Anglo-American zoologist known for his studies of freshwater lakes and considered the father of American limnology....
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- Johs. Iversen (DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
) - Frances Crews James (USA)
- Daniel JanzenDaniel JanzenDaniel Hunt Janzen is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist and the son of a previous Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service...
(USA) - E. A. JohnsonE. A. JohnsonEdward A. Johnson is a Canadian ecologist. His research focuses on the contact between the geosciences and ecology.E.A. Johnson received the 1986 W.S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America and is currently editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of...
(Canada) - Paul KeddyPaul KeddyPaul A. Keddy is a Canadian ecologist. He has studied plant population ecology and community ecology in wetlands and many other habitats in eastern Canada and Louisiana, U.S.A., where he now is a professor at the Southeastern Louisiana University.He began his formal training in biology in 1969 at...
(Canada) - David LackDavid LackDavid Lambert Lack FRS, was a British evolutionary biologist who made contributions to ornithology, ecology and ethology. His book on the finches of the Galapagos Islands was a landmark work.- Early life :...
(UK) - Hugh LampreyHugh LampreyHugh Lamprey was a British ecologist and bush pilot.He became famous for his UN report on desertification in the African Sahel region, where he stated that "the desert southern boundary has shifted south by an average of 90 to 100 kilometres in the last 17 years"...
(UK) - Louis LegendreLouis LegendreLouis Legendre was a French politician of the Revolution period.-Early activities:Born at Versailles, he was keeping a butcher's shop in Saint Germain, Paris, by 1789...
- Aldo LeopoldAldo LeopoldAldo Leopold was an American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac , which has sold over two million copies...
(USA) - Simon A. LevinSimon A. LevinSimon Asher Levin is an American ecologist. He is a Moffett Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Princeton University. He specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological...
- Gene LikensGene LikensGene Elden Likens is an American ecologist and a leading pioneer in the study of acid rain.Likens got his B.S. at Manchester College in 1957, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He joined the faculty of Dartmouth College in 1961. He was co-founder in 1963 of a group...
(USA) - Raymond LindemanRaymond LindemanRaymond Laurel Lindeman was an ecologist whose graduate research is often credited with being a seminal study in field of ecosystem ecology...
(USA) - Alton A. LindseyAlton A. LindseyAlton A. Lindsey was a pioneering ecologist who was largely responsible for the creation of nature preserves in the state of Indiana, where he was a professor of forest ecology at Purdue University from 1947 to 1973...
(USA) - Daniel A. LivingstoneDaniel A. LivingstoneDaniel A. Livingstone is the James B Duke Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, in the Department of Biology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina...
(USA) - Thomas LovejoyThomas LovejoyDr. Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III is chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank, senior adviser to the president of the United Nations Foundation, and president of the Heinz Center for Science,...
(USA) - Jane LubchencoJane LubchencoDr. Jane Lubchenco is a Ukrainian-American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. On March 19, 2009, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .While performing duties as head of NOAA, Dr...
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- Ramón MargalefRamón MargalefRamon Margalef i López was Emeritus Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. Margalef, unquestionably one of the most important scientists that Spain has produced , worked at the Institute of Applied Biology , and at the Fisheries Research Institute, which he...
(SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
) - Robert MacArthurRobert MacArthurRobert Helmer MacArthur was an American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology....
(USA) - Robert MayRobert MayRobert May or Bob May or Rob May may refer to:* Robert May , English chef.* Robert May, founder in 1694 of Robert May's School, Odiham, Hampshire, England.* Bob May , Australian politician.* Robert L...
(USA) - James B. McGraw (USA)
- Samuel Joseph McNaughtonSamuel J. McNaughtonSamuel Joseph McNaughton is an American ecologist and professor at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. at University of Texas-Austin in 1964, and was tenured to Syracuse University in 1966....
(USA) - John P. MiltonJohn P. MiltonJohn P. Milton is a meditation and Qigong instructor, author, and a pioneering environmentalist. He is the founder of .He pioneered vision questing in contemporary Western culture in the 1940s. In 1945, at the time he began his sacred solo retreats in the wilderness, vision quests were unknown in...
(USA) - Karl MöbiusKarl MöbiusKarl August Möbius was a German zoologist who was a pioneer in the field of ecology and a former director of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.- Early life :...
(GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - Harold A. MooneyHarold A. MooneyHarold A. "Hal" Mooney is an American ecologists and professor from Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1960 and was employed by University of California-Los Angeles the same year. He joined the staff at Stanford University in 1968...
(USA) - Ann Haven MorganAnn Haven MorganAnn Haven Morgan was an American zoologist and ecologist.One of three offspring of Stanley G. Morgan and Julia A. Douglass Morgan, Anna Morgan was born in Waterford, Connecticut and attended Williams Memorial Institute in New London, Connecticut. In 1902, Anna joined Wellesley College then...
(USA) - Cornelius MullerCornelius Herman MullerCornelius Herman Muller was an American botanist and ecologist who pioneered the study of allelopathy.- Personal life :After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1938 with a Ph.D...
(USA) - William W. MurdochWilliam W. MurdochRecipient of the 1990 Robert H. MacArthur Award granted by the Ecological Society of America, William W. Murdoch is a Charles A. Storke II professor of population ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Over the years, his research has focused primarily on the subjects of...
(USA) - Howard NelsonHoward NelsonHoward Nelson, Ph.D. is a Trinidadian ecologist and wildlife biologist. He is currently the CEO and Conservation Manager at the Asa Wright Nature Centre located in the Arima Valley in Trinidad's Northern Range....
(Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
) - Eugene OdumEugene OdumEugene Pleasants Odum was an American scientist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He wrote the first ecology textbook: Fundamentals of Ecology....
(USA) - Howard OdumHoward T. OdumHoward Thomas Odum was an American ecologist...
(USA) - Henry J. OostingHenry J. OostingHenry J. Oosting was an American ecologist and professor. He was born in Holland, Michigan. Oosting attended Michigan State University, where he received the M.S. degree in 1927, then studied with W.S. Cooper at the University of Minnesota, receiving his Ph.D...
(USA) - Gordon Howell OriansGordon OriansDr Gordon Howell Orians is an American ornithologist and ecologist. He was the 1999 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.-References:...
(USA) - Ruth PatrickRuth PatrickDr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925....
(USA) - Stephanie PeayStephanie Peay- Life and work :Peay is an alumna of Edinburgh University and Hull University. She is a Member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and a Chartered Environmentalist....
(UK) - Carlos A. PeresCarlos A. PeresCarlos Augusto Peres is a Brazilian field biologist who works in the Amazon and other neotropical forest regions on questions involving wildlife and biological conservation...
(Brazil) - Evelyn Christine PielouE. C. PielouEvelyn Chrystalla Pielou is a statistical ecologist. She began her career as a researcher for the Canadian Department of Forestry and the Canadian Department of Agriculture...
(Canada) - Frank Alois PitelkaFrank PitelkaDr Frank Alois Pitelka was an American ornithologist. He was the 2001 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.In 1992, Dr...
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- Elsie QuartermanElsie QuartermanElsie Quarterman is a prominent plant ecologist. She is a Professor Emerita at Vanderbilt University.Quarterman completed her Ph.D. at Duke University in 1949 with Henry J. Oosting. During her graduate work and afterward, she also collaborated extensively with Catherine Keever.Quarterman is best...
(USA) - T.A. RabotnovTikhon RabotnovTikhon Alexandrovich Rabotnov was a Russian plant ecologist. He was professor and head of the Department of Geobotany at Moscow State University until 1981. He was a father figure to generations of Russian plant ecologists...
(RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
/Soviet UnionSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
) - L.G. RamenskyLeonty RamenskyLeonty Grigoryevich Ramensky was a Russian plant ecologist who conceived several important ideas that were overlooked in the West and later ’re-invented’ by western scientists....
(Russia/Soviet Union) - Derek RatcliffeDerek RatcliffeDerek Almey Ratcliffe was one of the most significant British nature conservationists of the 20th century. He was Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy Council at the Monks Wood Experimental Station, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, retiring in 1989...
(UK) - Christen Raunkiær (Denmark)
- Alfred Clarence RedfieldAlfred C. RedfieldAlfred Clarence Redfield was an American oceanographer.He is especially known for having discovered the Redfield ratio, which describes the ratio between nutrients in plankton and ocean water. In 1966, he received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America...
(USA) - Edward RickettsEd RickettsEdward Flanders Robb Ricketts commonly known as Ed Ricketts, was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher...
(USA) - Michael RosenzweigMichael RosenzweigMichael L. Rosenzweig is an ecologist at the University of Arizona who has developed and popularized the concept of Reconciliation ecology. He founded and developed the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at UA Tucson, now a major center for the study of Evolutionary Ecology...
(USA) - Joan RoughgardenJoan RoughgardenJoan E. Roughgarden is an American evolutionary biologist.- Biography :...
(USA) - Edward James SalisburyEdward James SalisburySir Edward James Salisbury FRS was an English botanist and ecologist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.Sc. with a thesis on fossil seeds and was appointed a senior lecturer at East London College...
(UK) - David SchindlerDavid SchindlerDavid William Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS is an American/Canadian limnologist. He holds the Killam Memorial Chair and is Professor of Ecology in the at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada...
(Canada) - William H. SchlesingerWilliam H. SchlesingerWilliam H. Schlesinger is a biogeochemist and the president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, an independent not-for-profit environmental research organization in Millbrook, New York. He assumed this position after 27 years on the faculty of Duke University, where he served as the Dean...
(USA) - Karl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.-Biography:Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt's father was a German professor who, at the time of Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled...
(USA) - Paul SearsPaul SearsPaul Bigelow Sears was an American ecologist and writer. He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio. Sears attended Ohio Wesleyan University , the University of Nebraska at Lincoln , and the University of Chicago Paul Bigelow Sears (December 17, 1891-April 30, 1990) was an American ecologist and writer. He was...
(USA) - Homer Leroy Shantz (USA)
- Victor Ernest ShelfordVictor Ernest ShelfordVictor Ernest Shelford was an American zoologist and animal ecologist who helped to establish ecology as a distinct field of study.-Background and education:...
(USA) - Daniel SimberloffDaniel SimberloffDaniel Simberloff is a biologist and ecologist who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969.Simberloff started his studies in ecology as a student of the biologist E. O. Wilson, one of the co-authors of the theory of Island biogeography . For his Ph.D...
(USA) - Lawrence B. SlobodkinLawrence B. SlobodkinLawrence B. Slobodkin was an American ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He was one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology...
(USA) - Arthur TansleyArthur TansleySir Arthur George Tansley FRS was an English botanist who was a pioneer in the science of ecology. He obtained his degree in Biological Science in 1896, with specialization in botany and zoology. From the start, he was much influenced by the Danish plant ecologist Eugenius Warming. He championed...
(UK) - G. David TilmanG. David TilmanG. David Tilman born in 1949 in Aurora, Illinois, is a prominent American ecologist who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1976. He is Regent's Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota, as well as an instructor in Conservation Biology;...
(USA) - Donald Ward TinkleDonald W. TinkleDonald Ward Tinkle was a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan until his illness and death at age 50...
(USA) - Göte TuressonGöte TuressonGöte Wilhelm Turesson was a Swedish evolutionary botanist who made significant contributions to ecological genetics, and coined the terms ecotype and agamospecies. He conducted extensive work to demonstrate that there is a genetic basis to the differentiation of plant populations...
(SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
) - Monica TurnerMonica TurnerMonica G. Turner is an American scientist known for her work since 1988 on the fire that devastated Yellowstone National Park, a fire that was brought about by one of the worst droughts in U.S history.- Life and career :...
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- Robert UlanowiczRobert UlanowiczRobert Edward Ulanowicz is an American theoretical ecologist and philosopher who is best known for his search for a unified theory of ecology. He was born September 17, 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland....
(USA) - Peter VitousekPeter VitousekPeter Morrison Vitousek is an American ecologist, particularly known for his work on the nitrogen cycle.Born in Hawaii, Vitousek graduated from Amherst College in 1971 and received his Ph.D. in biology from Dartmouth College in 1985...
(USA) - Eugenius WarmingEugenius WarmingJohannes Eugenius Bülow Warming , known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology...
(Denmark) - Alexander WattAlexander WattAlexander Stuart Watt was a Scottish botanist and plant ecologist.-Life:Watt was born on an Aberdeenshire farm and went to school at Turriff Secondary School and Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen. He graduated as M.A. and B.Sc. from the University of Aberdeen in 1913...
(UK) - John Ernest WeaverJohn Ernest WeaverJohn Ernest Weaver was an American botanist, prairie ecologist, and university professor.Weaver was born in Villisca, Iowa. He attained a PhD at the University of Minnesota, 1916. He was "Instructor of Botany" at Washington State College from 1912 to 1913...
(USA) - Robert WhittakerRobert WhittakerRobert Harding Whittaker was a distinguished American plant ecologist, active in the 1950s to the 1970s.Born in Wichita, Kansas, he obtained a B.A. at Washburn Municipal College in Topeka, Kansas, and, following military service, his Ph.D...
(USA) - George C. WilliamsGeorge C. WilliamsProfessor George Christopher Williams was an American evolutionary biologist.Williams was a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D...
(USA) - Edward Osborne Wilson (USA)
- Sergei WinogradskySergei WinogradskySergei Nikolaievich Winogradsky was a Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle of life concept. He discovered the first known form of lithotrophy during his research with Beggiatoa in 1887...
(Russia) - Christian WisselChristian WisselChristian Wissel, originally a physicist and professor at the University of Marburg, is an important founding father of modern ecological modelling in Germany. He established an influential department at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research and led it until his retirement in...
(Germany) - Albert Hazen WrightAlbert Hazen WrightAlbert Hazen Wright was a professor at Cornell University and a herpetologist. He was also an honorary member of the "International Ornithological Congress." He did a great deal of study of the Okefenokee Swamp. In 1955 he won the Eminent Ecologist Award....
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