biogeographer

Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer.

University of Chicago, botanist, plant ecologist, biogeographer and Professor of Botany at Syracuse University.

Dr. James H. Brown, an ecologist and biogeographer at the University of New Mexico, said: "It's a spectacular observation.

Darwin, as a genealogical biogeographer, thinking horizontally as well as vertically, to use Ernst Mayr's (1982) terms, would explain change generationally but not developmentally.

'.the biogeographer may study the same phenomena as the ecologist, but he usually places as much emphasis on the distributional aspects as on the environmental relationships in this study.

In 1864 the zoologist and biogeographer Philip Sclater wrote an article on "The Mammals of Madagascar" in The Quarterly Journal of Science.

Smith was originally trained as a biogeographer and has technical publications in that field, including the bibliographic compilation Biodiversity Studies: A Bibliographic Review published in 2000, and additionally several websites.

The first dean of the College was William L. Bray, a Ph.D., graduate from the University of Chicago, botanist, plant ecologist, biogeographer and Professor of Botany at Syracuse University.

Biogeographer Jared Diamond notes that while big business may label environmental concerns as "exaggerated", and often cause "devastating damage", some corporations find it in their interest to adopt good conservation practices, and even engage in preservation efforts that surpass those taken by national parks.

Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt (1769-1859) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.