biography
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| (1889–1971)
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| Botanist, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She studied at the University of Cincinnati as an undergraduate and graduate, and remained there as an educator and researcher (1917–48). With her sister, entomologist Annette Braun, she made extensive field studies of the Ohio area. Her knowledge of geology facilitated her analysis of the flora of the Appalachians, and her 25 years of exploring the vegetation of Ohio and Kentucky led to her classic ecological study of hardwood forests, Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America (1950). One of the first American botanists to compare the changes in a particular flora over a historical time period, she fought for saving natural habitats. She was elected the first woman president of the Ohio Academy of Science (1933–4) and of the Ecological Society of America (1950). |
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