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Born September 22, 1877 • New York
Died December 27, 1968 (aged 91)
Notable Works “Animal Communities in Temperate America” • “Bio-ecology” • “The Ecology of North America”
Subjects Of Study animal • biome • community
Karl P. Schmidt
American zoologist
Warder Clyde Allee
American zoologist
Charles Elton
English biologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
American biologist
Charles Manning Child
American zoologist
Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist
Marston Bates
American zoologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Flannery, Tim
Tim Flannery
Australian zoologist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Sir James Gray
British zoologist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Al Gore
Al Gore
vice president of United States
Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist
Charles Henry Turner.
Charles Henry Turner
American scientist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Murie, Margaret
Margaret Murie
American naturalist, conservationist, and writer

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