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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
Clements, Frederic Edward, 1874-1945.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Washington, Carnegie institution of Washington, 1916.
SUMMARY
American Memory note: This work definitively set forth the most important model for the study of scientific ecology developed in the first part of the twentieth century: the theory that there is a dynamic, inexorable pattern of species succession in a given habitat, under the influence of climate and (to a much lesser degree) soil conditions, toward a final equilibrium or "climax formation," which is an organic community so tightly-integrated that it resembles a single organism. Its author was a native of Nebraska, trained at the University of Nebraska, head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota when he wrote this work, and the major evidence for his model came from his intimate familiarity with the North American grasslands. Clements's paradigm profoundly influenced both the scientific study of ecology and the future course of conservationist thought, particularly from the 1930s onward (see Donald Worster, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas [2d ed., Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1994], pp. 232-37).
NOTES
Bibliography: p. 473-498.
SUBJECTS
Plant succession.
MEDIUM
xiii, 512 p. illus., plates (1 fold.) diagrs. (1 fold.) 25 cm.
CALL NUMBER
QK901 .C64
DIGITAL ID
amrvg vg39
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