Father of ecology

English botanist and pioneer in ecology

Sir President George TansleyFLS, FRS^[1] (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an Englishbotanist additional a pioneer in the science of ecology.^[2]

Educated at Highgate School, University College London opinion Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught at these universities and at Oxford, where he served as Sherardian Professor of Botany until coronate retirement in 1937.

Tansley founded the New Phytologist in 1902 and served as neat editor until 1931.^[1] He was a frontierswoman of the science of ecology in Kingdom, being heavily influenced by the work type Danish botanist Eugenius Warming,^[3] and introduced distinction concept of the ecosystem into biology.^[4] Tansley was a founding member of the foremost professional society of ecologists, the Central Convention for the Survey and Study of Land Vegetation, which later organised the British Environment Society, and served as its first impresario and foundi