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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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   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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   What did Robert Whittaker propose?

   • Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was a distinguished American plant ecologist In 1969 Whittaker proposed a "five kingdom" system in which three kingdoms were added to the animals and plants: Monera, Protista, and Fungi. Whittaker defined the kingdoms by a number of special characteristics.

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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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   Why was Whittaker important?

   • Early in his career, Whittaker became known as one of the critics responsible for overthrowing Frederic Clements' idea that plant communities are highly organized systems comparable to organisms ( Westman and Peet 1985, Nicolson and McIntosh 2002, Kohler 2008 ).

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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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   Jul 22, 2015 · Posted by Doug Sprugel on July 22, 2015. Share Tweet Post Email. Robert H. Whittaker. Born: Wichita, KS 12/27/20, died 10/20/80. Education: Washburn Univ. (B.A. 1942); Univ. of Illinois (Ph.D. 1948) Dissertation title: A vegetation analysis of the Great Smoky Mountains (Ecol. Mon. 26:1-80) Advisor: S. Charles Kendeigh (C)

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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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   Robert H. Whittaker was recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on plant synecology. During his lifetime Whittaker was a major innovator of methodologies for community analysis and a leader in marshalling field data to document patterns in the composition, productivity and di­ versity of land plant communities. Through litera­