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   Who was Robert Whittaker?

   • Robert Whittaker (1920–1980) was one of the most influential modern ecologists and made important contributions to a wide range of fields ( Westman and Peet 1985 ). Although the five-kingdom system was only a minor part of his work, it reflected two of Whittaker's fundamental interests.

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   How did Whittaker contribute to community ecology?

   • This work helped to clarify the distortions which result from use of PCA and factor analysis discussed by Swan (1970), N oy Meir & Austin (1971) and Beals (1973). Meanwhile, Whittaker edited and contributed extensively to a review of classification and ordination methods in community ecology (1973g).

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   What is Whittaker's most cited work?

   • Whittaker's most cited work is his undergraduate text-book, Communities and Ecosystems (1970,3; second edition, 1975,3), which not only introduced thousands of students throughout the world to ecology but also provided a succinct summary of a highly diverse literature and new insights use-ful to professional ecologists.

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   What was Whittaker's ecological theory?

   • Whittaker had devised an ecological theory which harmonized with the individualistic hypothesis and the prestigious Neo-Darwinian synthesis, and which Camp was, for several reasons, well placed to understand and support.

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   How did Whittaker organize biological diversity?

   • By emphasizing the importance of both ecological trophic levels and cellular structure, Whittaker's five-kingdom system organized biological diversity using the very themes that new biology textbooks stressed so heavily.

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   Are Gauch Whittaker and Hill a signal contribution to community ecology?

   • The achievements of Gauch, Whittaker, Hill and coworkers in providing community ecologists with numerical methods of analysis of known perfor mance and behavior will undoubtedly stand as signal contributions to the field of community ecology for many years.

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   Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was an American plant ecologist, active from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the five kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia , Plantae , Fungi , Protista , and Monera in 1969.

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   Sep 30, 2013 · Robert Harding Whittaker (b. 1920–d. 1980) was one of the foremost international scholars of ecology and evolutionary biology of the 20th century. Born on 27 December 1920, Whittaker spent his youth in Kansas, obtaining a BA degree in biology in 1942 from Washburn Municipal University in Topeka.

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   Jan 1, 2012 · Robert Whittaker (1920–1980) was one of the most influential modern ecologists and made important contributions to a wide range of fields (Westman and Peet 1985). Although the five-kingdom system was only a minor part of his work, it reflected two of Whittaker's fundamental interests.

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   ROBERT HARDING WHITTAKER was one of the preemi- nent community ecologists of the twentieth century. By studying the interactions of plant populations at the biogeo-chemical, species, and community levels, he made contribu-tions to basic knowledge in several subdisciplines of biology.

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   R. H. Whittaker enlivened many fields within ecology, systematics and evolution with his insights. Perhaps his most significant contributions to ecology lie in the development of the theories and methods of gradient analysis.

   • Author: W. E. Westman, R. K. Peet

   • Publish Year: 1982

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   Apr 1, 2016 · Robert Harding Whittaker (1920–1980) was one of the most productive and eminent plant ecologists of the twentieth century. His career in research is thus of great interest both to scientists and historians of science.

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    R. H. Whittaker enlivened many fields within ecology, systematics and evolution with his insights. Perhaps his most significant contributions to ecology lie in the development of the theories and methods of gradient analysis.