Артур Тэнсли: Экологияның негізін қалаушы және өсімдіктерді зерттеуші ғалым

English botanist and pioneer in ecology

Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught at these universities and at Oxford, where he served as Sherardian Professor of Botany until his retirement in 1937. Tansley founded the New Phytologist in 1902 and served as its editor until 1931. and introduced the concept of the ecosystem into biology. Tansley also served as the first chairman of the British Nature Conservancy. The New Phytologist publishes regular Tansley Reviews, while the New Phytologist Trust awards a Tansley Medal, both named in his honour.

Tansley was born in London to businessman George Tansley followed by Arthur seven years later, in 1871. In 1907 he took a Lecturer position at the University of Cambridge. In 1923 he resigned his position at Cambridge and spent a year in Vienna studying psychology under Sigmund Freud. In establishing this journal, Tansley's aim was to provide a venue for the publication of "notes and suggestions"; existing botanical journals only published records of completed research. in which he introduced the ecosystem concept. In the 1930s ecological thinking was dominated by the work of Clements, who thought of ecological communities as organisms, and associations as superorganisms. and he devised it to draw attention to the importance of transfers of materials between organisms and their environment, regarding ecosystems as the basic units of nature. Tansley's most comprehensive work, The British Islands and Their Vegetation was published in 1939. Volume 2 was published in 1949. In recognition of this achievement, he was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1941.

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