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Arthur Tansley

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Botany

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According to Wikipedia, Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology. Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught at these universities and at Oxford, where he served as Sherardian Professor of Botany until his retirement in 1937. Tansley founded the New Phytologist in 1902 and served as its editor until 1931. He was a pioneer of the science of ecology in Britain, being heavily influenced by the work of Danish botanist Eugenius Warming, and introduced the concept of the ecosystem into biology. Tansley was a founding member of the first professional society of ecologists, the Central Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation, which later organised the British Ecological Society, and served as its first president and founding editor of the Journal of Ecology. Tansley also served as the first chairman of the British Nature Conservancy.

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Arthur Tansley's Published Works

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The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms (1935) (1751)
The Tropical Rain Forest. (1953) (1000)
The British Islands and their Vegetation (1939) (510)
The Classification of Vegetation and the Concept of Development (1920) (186)
Studies of the Vegetation of the English Chalk: III. The Chalk Grasslands of Hampshire-Sussex Border (1925) (170)
On Competition Between Galium Saxatile L. (G. Hercynicum Weig.) and Galium Sylvestre Poll. (G. Asperum Schreb.) On Different Types of Soil (1917) (113)
Introduction to Plant Ecology (1947) (77)
The Botanist in Ireland. (1935) (63)
Aims and Methods in the Study of Vegetation (1927) (60)
Prehistoric Charcoals as Evidence of Former Vegetation, Soil and Climate (1941) (55)
The recording of structure, life-form and flora of tropical forest communities as a basis for their classification (1940) (44)
Notes on the Conducting Tissue-System in Bryophyta (1901) (42)
The Early History of Modern Plant Ecology in Britain (1947) (41)
Studies of the Vegetation of the English Chalk: IV. A Preliminary Survey of the Chalk Grasslands of the Sussex Downs (1926) (40)
British Ecology During the Past Quarter-Century: The Plant Community and the Ecosystem (1939) (40)
A REVISION OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE GREEN ALGÆ (1902) (38)
LECTURES ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE FILICINEAN VASCULAR SYSTEM. (1907) (34)
Studies of the Vegetation of the English Chalk: II. Early Stages of Redevelopment of Woody Vegetation on Chalk Grassland (1922) (27)
Practical Plant Ecology (1924) (27)
THE PROBLEMS OF ECOLOGY. (1904) (26)
The Peculiarities of South Australian Vegetation@@@`Some Historical Influences on the Development of South Australian Vegetation Communities and their Bearing on Concepts and Classification in Ecology.' (1948) (24)
THE VASCULAR SYSTEM OF THE RHIZOME AND LEAF‐TRACE OF PTERIS AQUILINA, L., AND PTERIS INCISA, THUNB., VAR. INTEGRIFOLIA, BEDDOME. (17)
The Values of Science to Humanity (1942) (17)
I.—The Flora of the Ceylon Littoral.1 (16)
A Study of the Vascular System of Matonia pectinata (1905) (15)
SKETCHES OF VEGETATION AT HOME AND ABROAD. (1905) (15)
Our heritage of wild nature: a plea for organized nature conservation. (1945) (13)
THE WOODLANDS OF ENGLAND (1910) (13)
Vegetation of the British Isles: Review@@@The British Islands and Their Vegetation (1940) (13)
Elements of plant biology. By A. G. Tansley ... (12)
The Natural History of Wicken Fen (1932) (12)
METHODS OF SURVEYING VEGETATION ON A LARGE SCALE. (1904) (11)
Note on the Status of Salt-Marsh Vegetation and the Concept of 'Formation' (1941) (10)
Britain's green mantle. Past, present and future. (1950) (10)
A Universal Classification of Plant-Communities@@@Die Einteilung der Pflanzengesellschaften Nach Okologisch-Physiognomischen Gesichtspunkten. (1913) (9)
ECOLOGY IN ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHYTOTOPOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS.1 (1905) (9)
Practical plant ecology. A guide for beginners in field study of plant communities. (9)
Reconnaissance in the Cotteswolds and the Forest of Dean (1913) (8)
On the Structure of Schizaea malaccana (1903) (7)
Our Heritage of Wild Nature: A Plea for Organized Nature Conservation (1946) (7)
Ecological Principles Involved in the Practice of Forestry (1944) (7)
The Durmast Oak-Woods (Querceta Sessili-Florae) of the Silurian and Malvernian Strata near Malvern (1921) (6)
Forestry Research. (1923) (5)
ON A NEW TYPE OF FERN-STELE, AND ITS PROBABLE PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONS (1902) (5)
The Course of the Controversy on Freedom in Science (1946) (5)
The Course of the Controversy on Freedom in Science (1946) (5)
ECOLOGY IN ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHYTO‐TOPOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS.—A Review.1 (1905) (5)
The International Phytogeographic Excursion (I.P.E.) in America, 1913 / (3)
ROOT‐STRUCTURE IN THE CENTRAL CYLINDER OF THE HYPOCOTYL. (1904) (2)
The Unification of Pure Botany (1924) (2)
Coastal Preservation and Planning: Discussion (1944) (2)
Origin of the British Flora (1935) (2)
NATURAL AND SEMI-NATURAL BRITISH WOODLANDS (1940) (2)
Die neue Psychologie und ihre Beziehung zum Leben (2)
Forests of Provence@@@The Forests of Provence. (1913) (1)
THE MEETING OF THE “ASSOCIATION INTER‐NATIONALE DES BOTANISTES” AT LEIDEN (1903) (1)
Mind and life : an essay in simplification (1952) (1)
Climatology, Treated Mainly in Relation to Distribution in Time and Place. (1950) (1)
The future development and functions of the Oxford Department of Botany : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 22 November 1927 (1)
THE NATURE AND RANGE OF VARIATION IN THE FLORAL SYMMETRY OF POTENTILLA ERECTA (L.) HAMPE (1948) (1)
The Vegetation of the British Isles@@@The British Islands and Their Vegetation (1941) (1)
Oaks and oak woods (1952) (1)
Crop Centers of the United States. (1920) (1)
An Early Pioneer of Plant Ecology. (1952) (0)
THE RELATIONS OP COMPLEX AND SENTIMENT. II1 (1922) (0)
Young Plants of Matonia pectinata (1905) (0)
Plans for a National Atlas: Discussion (1940) (0)
Compulsory Greek at Cambridge (1905) (0)
Sleep Movements in Plants (1891) (0)
Primary Survey of the Peak District of Derbyshire@@@Vegetation of the Peak District. (1913) (0)
Arthur Harry Church, 1865-1937 (1939) (0)
Psychoanalyse yourself : a practical method of self-analysis : enabling a person to remove unreasoning fears snd depression from his mind (1948) (0)
Text-books on Plant Ecology@@@Introduction to Plant Ecology@@@Plant Ecology and the School (1947) (0)
A Bright Meteor (0)
Society for Freedom in Science (1945) (0)
Higher processes in the light of abnormal psychology. (0)
A Modern Description of World Vegetation (1935) (0)
Some basic psychological conceptions. (0)
A Map of the Vegetation of the United States.@@@Vegetation of North America. (1920) (0)
A Milestone in Plant Ecology@@@The British Islands and their Vegetation. (1940) (0)
Oaks and Oak woods [in Britain]. (1952) (0)
The August Issue of The Journal of Ecology (1934) (0)
British Vegetation@@@Types of British Vegetation@@@British Plants-Their Biology and Ecology@@@Plain-Towns of Italy@@@Rambles in Norway@@@Switzerland in Sunshine and Snow (1912) (0)
The February Issue of The Journal of Ecology (1934) (0)
Postscript to `The Early History of Modern Plant-Ecology in Britain' (1948) (0)
An Introduction to Plant Ecology@@@Practical Plant Ecology. (1923) (0)

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