Henry Chandler Cowles

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academic botanist ecologist person

Henry Chandler Cowles was an American botanist and pioneering ecologist whose work on plant succession helped establish ecology as a scientific discipline.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → botanist → ecologist → person →
academicDegree	PhD →
awardReceived	Botanical Society of America Merit Award →
birthDate	1869-02-27 →
contributedTo	conceptual framework of ecological succession → development of modern plant ecology →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1939-09-12 →
doctoralAdvisor	John Merle Coulter →
educatedAt	Oberlin College → University of Chicago →
employer	University of Chicago →
familyName	Cowles →
fieldOfWork	botany → ecology → plant ecology → plant succession →
gender	male →
givenName	Henry →
hasNotableStudent	Paul B. Sears → Victor E. Shelford →
influenced	Frederic Clements → Victor E. Shelford →
influencedBy	Eugenius Warming →
knownFor	helping establish ecology as a scientific discipline in the United States → pioneering studies of ecological succession → research on sand dune vegetation of the Lake Michigan shoreline →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Ecological Society of America →
nationality	American →
notableWork	The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan →
occupation	botanist → ecologist → university professor →
placeOfBirth	Kensington, Connecticut NERFINISHED →
placeOfDeath	Chicago, Illinois →
positionHeld	president of the Ecological Society of America →
publicationYearOfNotableWork	1899 →
researchArea	physiographic ecology → vegetation dynamics →
studied	ecological succession on sand dunes → plant communities →
workLocation	Chicago, Illinois →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ecological Society of America →	foundedBy