Forrest Shreve
Forrest Shreve | |
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| Born | July 8, 1878 |
| Died | July 19, 1950 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
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| Institutions | Goucher College Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | F. Shreve |
Forrest Shreve (July 8, 1878 – July 19, 1950) was an internationally known American botanist. His professional career was devoted to the study of the distribution of vegetation as determined by soil and climate conditions.[1] His contributions to the plant biology world set the groundwork for modern studies and his books are regarded as classics by botanists worldwide.[2]
Early life and education
Shreve, the son of Henry and Helen Garrison Shreve, was born in
Ph.D. from the same university in 1905. From 1904 to 1908, Shreve conducted a botanical survey of the state of Maryland
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Career
From 1905 to 1906, and again in 1909, Shreve studied the mountain vegetation of
Association of American Geographers in 1940, and published "The Desert Vegetation of North America" in Botanical Review. He retired in 1946.[3]
Personal life
His religious affiliation was with the
Publications
- The Plant Life of Maryland. The Johns Hopkins Press. 1910.
- A Montane Rain-forest: A Contribution to the Physiological Plant Geography in Jamaica. Carnegie Institute of Washington. Washington D.C: 1914.[5]
- The Vegetation of a Desert Mountain Range as Conditioned by Climatic Factors. Carnegie Institute of Washington. Washington D.C.: 1915.[6]
- Naturalist's Guide to the Americas (editor). 1926.
- The Cactus and its Home. The Williams & Wilkins company. 1931.
- "The Desert Vegetation of North America". The Botanical Review. Vol. 8, No. 4 (Apr., 1942), pp. 195–246.
- Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert (posthumously). Stanford University Press. 1964.
References
- ^ a b c d White, James Terry; Derby, George (1955). The National Encyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. 40. New York: J. T. White & company.
- ^ "A Sense of Place". The University of Arizona. The University of Arizona Press. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
- ^ Smith, Charles H. (2005). "Shreve, Forrest (United States 1878-1950)". People.wku.edu. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Shreve.
- JSTOR 1639539.
- JSTOR 1641059.
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