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2 unusual facts about Henry Chandler Cowles


Arthur Tansley

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.

Henry Cowles

Henry Chandler Cowles (1869–1939), American botanist and ecological pioneer


Plant ecology

Henry Chandler Cowles' studies of plant succession on the Lake Michigan sand dunes (published in 1899) and Frederic Clements' 1916 monograph on the subject established it as a key element of plant ecology.


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