Victor Ernest Shelford
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Victor Ernest Shelford (September 22, 1877, Chemung, New York – December 27, 1968) was an American zoologist and animal ecologist who helped to establish ecology as a distinct field of study.
Shelford attended the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. in 1907. By 1916 he became the first president of the Ecological Society of America. Most of his career was spent at the University of Illinois. There he began a study in 1933 of how the changes of population of animals correlated to environmental changes. He wrote many reports on how animal populations change in cycles. In 1939, along with botanist Frederic E. Clements, he had published Bio-ecology. This helped develop the concept of biomes, characterizing them by vegetation and fauna. He further summarized them in 1963 in his book The Ecology of North America.[1]
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- ^ "Shelford, Victor Ernest." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006.
