Henry Chandler Cowles: Pioneer Ecologist - Victor M Cassidy

ISBN: 978-1-934087-20-6
Cloth, 354 pages
A biography by Victor M. Cassidy

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Henry Chandler Cowles (1869-1939) was an ecologist, botanist, teacher, and conservationist. At the end of the 19th century, Cowles made hundreds of field observations of the sand dunes landscape that rings the southern and eastern shores of Lake Michigan. His study demonstrated that the outdoor environment is a dynamic system in which plants, soil, moisture, climate, and topography interact. Specifically, he made sense of a poorly understood natural phenomenon called plant succession, which denotes the way that communities of plants come into a landscape, flourish, and create conditions for their replacement by other plant communities. This is the first and only book on Cowles and will serve as the definitive text on this pioneer ecologist. It will appeal to ecology and natural area professionals, academics, active conservationists and the general public.

Henry Chandler Cowles: Pioneer Ecologist by Victor Cassidy is a significant contribution to the history of ecology. As the first published biography of this pre-eminent scientist who established ecology as a discipline in the early 20th century, Cassidy's work is significant, given that many of the records were destroyed by Cowles' wife after his death. The biography is comparable to those of his contemporaries, Frederick Clements and Victor Shelford.

-Noel B. Pavlovic, Research Ecologist, US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Great Lakes Science Center

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“We are proud to announce that Henry Chandler Cowles: Pioneer Ecologist was recently mentioned in Ecology 88 (11) p. 2949. Book editor Janet Lanza states, "Part biography, part anthology of important writings, this book is the first published biography of an important ecologist, Henry Chandler Cowles. Just over 20 clear black and white photographs, a list of publications, and a chronology of important events in Cowles' life accompany the text."

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