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  1. 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. [1] [2] He also proposed the Whittaker Biome ...

    • Eminent Ecologist Award (1981)
    • Ecology
    • American
  2. 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. He then enlisted in the Army Air Force, serving ...

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  4. Jan 1, 2012 · Whittaker's classification of communities and kingdoms. 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.

    • Joel B. Hagen
    • 2012
  5. Robert H. Whittaker, the youngest of three children, was born on December 27, 1920, in Wichita, Kansas, to Clive Charles and Adeline Harding Whittaker. His mother en-couraged Whittaker's abiding interest in languages, while his father stimulated an early interest in natural history. Whittaker entered Washburn Municipal College (now

  6. 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

  7. Robert J. Whittaker. Emeritus Professor of Biogeography, University of Oxford. Verified email at ouce.ox.ac.uk - Homepage. Island Biogeography Conservation Biogeography Ecological Biogeography.

  8. Dec 26, 2019 · Robert H. Whittaker (1920–1980) made numerous fundamental contributions to biogeography, ecology, and biology. Whittaker influenced succeeding generations of ecologists, and this influence extended to physical geography.

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