biography
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Tansley, Sir Arthur George
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1955)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in London, UK. He was professor at Oxford (1927–37), founded the precursor (1904) of the Ecological Society (1914), and was founder-editor of the New Phytologist (1902). A pioneer British ecologist, he published Practical Plant Ecology (1923) and The British Isles and their Vegetation (1939), and contributed to anatomical and morphological botany as well as to psychology. |
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