Henry Chandler Cowles's 1901 work, "The Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity," is a foundational ecological study of plant communities. It is notable for its early application of quantitative methods to the study of ecological succession.
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Henry Chandler Cowles — The Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity in Ecology
Held in the Ecology chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
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