Roger Dajoz (22 August 1929 – 10 March 2019) was a French

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Biography

He was former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a teacher at the

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. He specialised in the insects that feed on rotting wood and gave the term saproxylic insects in 1966 and has been considered the father of saproxylic entomology. Most of his writings were in French. He published a number of books on

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. One of the most important is an Ecology dictionary named ''Précis d'écologie'', published by Dunod in French.

Publications

* ''Insecticides'', PUF, 1959. * ''Wood-boring insects and their part in deadwood degradation'' in ''Forest ecology'', Gauthier-Villars, 1974. * ''Ecology collection, vol.6, Population dynamics'', Masson, 1974. * ''The ecology encyclopedia : the present in question'', with other contributors, Larousse, 1977. * ''Ecology dictionary'', Dunod, 2006. * ''Biodiversity, the future of man and the planet'', Ellipses, 2009. * ''Biologic evolution in the 21st century, facts and theories'', Lavoisier, 2012.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dajoz, Roger French ecologists 1929 births 2019 deaths Place of birth missing National Museum of Natural History (France) people Langevin family