This is a list of notable
ecologists.
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John Aber (United States)
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Aziz Ab'Saber (
Brazil
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Charles Christopher Adams (United States)
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Warder Clyde Allee (United States)
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Herbert G. Andrewartha (
Australia
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Sarah Martha Baker (
UK)
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Fakhri A. Bazzaz (United States)
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John Beard (UK)
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William Dwight Billings (United States)
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Louis Charles Birch (Australia)
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Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (; January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental ...
(United States)
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George Bornemissza (Australia)
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Emma Lucy Braun (United States)
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by Honorific nick ...
(United States)
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Murray Fife Buell (United States)
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Arthur Cain (United States)
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Archie Fairly Carr (United States)
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Rachel Carson (United States)
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Jeannine Cavender-Bares (United States)
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F. Stuart Chapin III (United States)
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Eric Charnov (United States)
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Liz Chicaje (Peru)
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Frederic Clements (United States)
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Barry Commoner (United States)
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Henry Shoemaker Conard (United States)
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Joseph H. Connell (United States)
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William Skinner Cooper (United States)
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Charles F. Cooper (United States)
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Henry Chandler Cowles (United States)
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John T. Curtis (United States)
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Pierre Dansereau (
Canada
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Frank Fraser Darling (UK)
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...
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England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
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Aparajita Datta (India)
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Margaret Bryan Davis (United States)
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Edward Smith Deevey, Jr. (United States)
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Rene Dubos (United States)
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Frank Edwin Egler (United States)
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Paul R. Ehrlich (United States)
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Thomas Eisner (United States)
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Heinz Ellenberg (
Germany
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Charles S. Elton (UK)
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Stephen Alfred Forbes (United States)
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Marie-Josée Fortin (Canada)
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Robin B. Foster (United States)
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Margaret Friedel (Australia)
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Douglas Futuyma (United States)
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Jacquelyn Gill (United States)
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Henry Gleason (United States)
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Robert Fiske Griggs (United States)
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J. Philip Grime (UK)
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Nancy Grimm (United States)
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Peter J. Grubb (UK)
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; ; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, natural history, naturalist, eugenics, eugenicist, Philosophy, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biology, marine biologist and artist ...
(Germany)
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Nelson Hairston (United States)
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Henry Paul Hansen (United States)
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Ilkka Hanski (
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
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Garrett Hardin (United States)
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John L. Harper (UK)
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John William Harshberger (United States)
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Jeff Harvey (United States)
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Alan Hastings (United States)
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C.S. Holling (Canada)
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Stephen P. Hubbell (United States)
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Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald (Austria)
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Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, natural history, naturalist, List of explorers, explorer, and proponent of Romanticism, Romantic philosophy and Romanticism ...
(Prussia/Germany)
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson (UK/USA)
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Rolf Anker Ims (
Norway
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Johs. Iversen (
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
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Frances Crews James (United States)
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Daniel Janzen (United States)
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E. A. Johnson (Canada)
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Rahanna Alicia Juman (Trinidad and Tobago)
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Paul Keddy (Canada)
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Hanna Kokko (
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
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Charles Krebs (Canada)
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David Lack (UK)
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Hugh Lamprey (UK)
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Pierre Legendre (Canada)
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Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, Philosophy, philosopher, Natural history, naturalist, scientist, Ecology, ecologist, forester, Conservation biology, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a profes ...
(United States)
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Estella Leopold (United States)
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Simon A. Levin (United States)
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Richard Levins
Richard Levins (June 1, 1930 – January 19, 2016) was a Marxist biologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched genetic diversity, diversity in human populations. Until his ...
(United States)
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Gene Likens (United States)
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Raymond Lindeman (United States)
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Alton A. Lindsey (United States)
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Daniel A. Livingstone (United States)
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Julie L. Lockwood (United States)
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Thomas Lovejoy
Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III (August 22, 1941December 25, 2021) was an American ecologist who was President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a university professor in the Environmental Science a ...
(United States)
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James Lovelock (UK)
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Jane Lubchenco (United States)
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Robert MacArthur (United States)
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Georgina Mace (UK)
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Michael Marder (Spain)
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Ramon Margalef (
Spain
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Robert May (Australia/UK)
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James B. McGraw (United States)
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Samuel Joseph McNaughton (United States)
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Ian McTaggart-Cowan (Canada)
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Antônia Melo (Brazil)
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Peter Menkhorst (Australia)
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John P. Milton (United States)
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Karl Möbius (Germany)
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Harold A. Mooney (United States)
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Ann Haven Morgan (United States)
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Timothy Morton (United States)
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Peter J. Morin (United States)
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Sergio Rossetti Morosini (Brazil-USA)
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Cornelius Muller (United States)
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William W. Murdoch (United States)
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Robert J. Naiman (United States)
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Howard Nelson (
Trinidad and Tobago
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Eugene Odum (United States)
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Howard Odum (United States)
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Henry J. Oosting (United States)
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Gordon Howell Orians (United States)
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Richard S. Ostfeld (United States)
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Jennifer Owen (UK)
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Ruth Patrick (United States)
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Stephanie Peay (UK)
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Carlos A. Peres (Brazil)
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Javier Perez-Capdevila (
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
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Mario Petrucci (UK - Italy)
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E. C. Pielou (Canada)
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Frank Alois Pitelka (United States)
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Henry de Puyjalon (Canada)
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Elsie Quarterman (United States)
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T. A. Rabotnov (
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
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Soviet Union
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Leonty Ramensky (Russia/Soviet Union)
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José R. Ramírez-Garofalo (United States)
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Derek Ratcliffe (UK)
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Christen Raunkiær (Denmark)
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Alfred Clarence Redfield (United States)
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Edward Ricketts (United States)
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Robert Ricklefs (United States)
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Edith A. Roberts (United States)
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Michael Rosenzweig (United States)
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Joan Roughgarden (United States)
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Edward James Salisbury (UK)
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José Sarukhán (Mexico)
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David Schindler (Canada)
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William H. Schlesinger (United States)
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Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was an American herpetologist.
Family
Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Karl ...
(United States)
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Thomas W. Schoener (United States)
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Paul Sears (United States)
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Homer Leroy Shantz (United States)
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Victor Ernest Shelford (United States)
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Daniel Simberloff (United States)
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Lawrence B. Slobodkin (United States)
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Ian Stirling (Canada)
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George Sugihara (United States)
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Raman Sukumar (
India
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Arthur Tansley (UK)
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John Terborgh (United States)
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G. David Tilman (United States)
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Donald Ward Tinkle (United States)
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C. Richard Tracy (United States)
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Göte Turesson (
Sweden
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Monica Turner (United States)
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Robert Ulanowicz (United States)
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Louise Vet (Netherlands)
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Eugenius Warming (Denmark)
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Alexander Watt (UK)
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John Ernest Weaver (United States)
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Franklin White (Canada)
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Robert Whittaker (United States)
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George C. Williams (United States)
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Edward Osborne Wilson (United States)
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Sergei Winogradsky
Sergei Nikolaevich Winogradsky (; ; , Kyiv – 24 February 1953, Brie-Comte-Robert), also published under the name Sergius Winogradsky, was a Ukrainian and Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil science, soil scientist who pioneered the Biog ...
(Russia)
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Christian Wissel (Germany)
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Albert Hazen Wright (United States)
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Joy Zedler (United States)
See also
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List of climate scientists
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List of women climate scientists and activists
References
{{portal bar, Ecology
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Ecologists