biography
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Clements, Frederick Edward
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| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1945)
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| biography:
| Botanist and ecologist, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He studied at the University of Nebraska (1894), took a PhD there (1898), and stayed on to teach botany until 1907, when he left for the University of Minnesota. From 1917 he concentrated on research, working at Carnegie Institution laboratories in Arizona, California, and Colorado. He was one of the first to emphasize the scientific importance of the study of life and the environment – the field of ecology. His best-known work, Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation, appeared in 1916. During the 1930s he worked as a consultant on projects to restore the US western grasslands damaged by prolonged drought. |
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