Frederic Clements

Frederic Edward Clements
Born(1874-09-16)September 16, 1874
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
DiedJuly 26, 1945(1945-07-26) (aged 70)
Santa Barbara, California[1]
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska
Known forEcological succession
SpouseEdith Gertrude Schwartz
Scientific career
FieldsPlant ecology
Institutions
Author abbrev. (botany)Clem.

Frederic Edward Clements (September 16, 1874 – July 26, 1945) was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of plant ecology[2] and vegetation succession.[3]: 51 

  1. ^ "Frederic E. Clements". University of California at Santa Barbara. Archived from the original on October 1, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  2. ^ Kingsland, Sharon (2012). "Defining Ecology as a Science". In Real, Leslie A.; Brown, James H. (eds.). Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. University of Chicago Press. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0-226-18210-0. Clements was important also for publishing the first American textbook in ecology, Research Methods in Ecology (1905), which discussed the statistical and graphical analytical methods he and other Nebraskan ecologists developed from 1897 to 1905. His ecological theory rested on two ideas, the concept of ecological succession of plant formations, and the treatment of the plant community as a "complex organism" undergoing a life cycle and evolutionary history analogous to the individual organism. The formal presentation of his theory appeared in 1916 in his monumental study Plant Succession.
  3. ^ Humphrey, Harry Baker (1961). Makers of North American Botany. Ronald Press. ISBN 9780826045201. LCCN 61-18435.