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3 unusual facts about Arthur Tansley


Arthur Tansley

William S. Cooper considered Tansley's most influential publications synthesised individual studies into a whole.

The connections made between Tansley and American ecologists Henry Chandler Cowles and Frederic Clements helped build a philosophical and methodological link between British and American plant ecology.

After attending preparatory school from the ages of 12 to 15, he enrolled in Highgate School.


Alexander Watt

He then went to University of Cambridge to work on beech forest under Arthur Tansley and obtained a M.S. in 1919 (after interruption by military service 1916-1918).


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