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Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology.
Jun 11, 2018 · A man of twin professional preoccupations, Tansley was the most eminent British ecologist of his generation as well as an important early twentieth-century popularizer of Freudian psychoanalysis.
Jan 13, 2022 · Tansley, often described as a mixture of idealist and materialist, was a lucid contributor to debates on ecological and psychological terminology. In 1935, he introduced what would become one of his science’s most fundamental and influential terms, the “ecosystem.”
Tansley’s career encompassed the late-nineteenth century emergence of British ecology, its long, hesitant development, and ecology’s eventual recognition through the establishment of the Nature Conservancy in 1949, an ecological research council of which Tansley was founder-chairman.
From small beginnings – research papers on the tissues that conduct water in mosses and ferns – Tansley’s writing grew in scope and ambition. His principles of ecology – most notably the ecosystem – shaped the emergent science both in Britain and throughout the world.
Arthur G. Tansley was a highly influential British botanist and ecologist. He was educated at University College, London, and Trinity College of Cambridge University. He taught at University College until 1906, and then moved to Cambridge.
Sir Arthur George Tansley, 1871–1955. 2. Tansley and New Phytologist. The promotion of botany through improved communication between botanists was Tansley’s aim as he founded the New Phytologist. It was the same goal he sought, by various means, throughout his working life. The New Phytologist was his first success.
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