Allan A. Schoenherr (February 6, 1937 – May 31, 2021) was a

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n author,

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, and naturalist. He is the author of the widely used reference book, ''

A Natural History of California Allan A. Schoenherr (February 6, 1937 – May 31, 2021) was a Californian author, ecologist, and naturalist. He is the author of the widely used reference book, '' A Natural History of California''. He received his PhD in zoology at Arizona Stat ...

''. He received his PhD in

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at Arizona State University and taught a long-running course on natural history of California

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. He is emeritus professor of ecology in

Fullerton College Fullerton College (FC) is a public community college in Fullerton, California. The college is part of the California Community Colleges System and the North Orange County Community College District. Established in 1913, it is the oldest communi ...

. He taught classes for the

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of the

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. An accomplished nature photographer, he has provided the photographs to illustrate his books and he has received two awards for his images of California Gray Whales. A lover of the outdoors, he has traveled, hiked, and photographed all over the world. He has been the naturalist on many shipboard excursions including trips to Iceland, Greenland, Russia, Alaska, the Arctic and the Antarctic, the lagoons of Baja California, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean. As a biology professor on the

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program he has four times traveled around the world teaching marine biology and ecology. He was the coordinator of Global Studies on the Spring ‘09 voyage of the

program. He was a professor of biology at Fullerton College for over 30 years. He died at 84 at his cabin in the Sierra Nevada outside Bishop 31 May 2021.

Bibliography

Books

* ''The herpetofauna of the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California'' (1976) * ''A Natural History of California'' (1995) * ''Natural History of the Islands of California'' (2003) * ''Terrestrial Vegetation of California'' (2007), editor with

Michael Barbour Michael G. Barbour (born 1942, died 7 January 2021) was a Californian botanist and ecologist.''Dedication: Michael G. Barbour Dedication'', Todd Keeler-Wolf, Madroño 57(4):281-282. 2010, California Botanical Society pub. He was a Professor Emer ...

and

Todd Keeler-Wolf Todd Keeler-Wolf is a California botanist and ecologist who co-developed the " Sawyer and Keeler-Wolf classification system" of vegetation types. *Introduction to California Plant Life, Robert Ornduff, Phyllis M. Faber, Todd Keeler-Wolf, Califo ...

* ''Wild and Beautiful: A Natural History of the Open Spaces in Orange County'' (2013) * ''A Natural history of California Second Edition'' (2017)

Academic publications

References

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