Gleason, Henry Allan

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Gleason, Henry Allan (1882–1973) An American ecologist, who worked at the New York Botanical Garden and in 1917 challenged the organismic climax theory proposed by F. E. Clements (and later by A. G. Tansley in Britain), in favour of his own individualistic hypothesis.

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Gleason, HenryAllan

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Gleason, HenryAllan (1882–1973)An American ecologist, who worked at the New York Botanical Garden and, in 1917, challenged the organismicclimax theory proposed by F. E.Clements (and later by A. G.Tansley in Britain), in favour of his own individualistic hypothesis.

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