Frederic Clements
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American ecologist
Why Is Frederic Clements Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frederic Edward Clements was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of plant ecology and vegetation succession. Biography Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he studied botany at the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1894 and obtaining a doctorate in 1898. One of his teachers was botanist Charles Bessey, who inspired Clements to research topics such as microscopy, plant physiology, and laboratory experimentation. He was also classmate of Willa Cather and Roscoe Pound. While at the University of Nebraska, he met Edith Gertrude Schwartz , also a botanist and ecologist, and they were married in 1899.
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