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Download Solution PDFWhich ecologist is famous for studying plant life in the Indiana Dunes in 1896?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Henry Chandler Cowles.Key Points
- Henry Chandler Cowles studied ecological succession in the Indiana Dunes of Northwest Indiana in the 1890s.
- Henry Chandler Cowles (1869-1939) was a University of Chicago botany professor and conservationist, his studies of plant life in the Indiana Dunes made Cowles one of America's most notable early ecologists.
- In 1896, Cowles traveled to the southern shore of Lake Michigan to see the Indiana Dunes for the first time and studied them.
- His study explained the development and distribution of local plant communities in terms of topography, moisture, wind, erosion, sedimentation, and other geological processes.
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