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    Arthur Tansley

    English botanist and pioneer in ecology

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

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

    Tansley founded the New Phytologist in 1902 and served as its editor until 1931.[1] He was a pioneer of the science of ecology in Britain, being heavily influenced by the work of Danish botanist Eugenius Warming,[3] and introduced the concept of the ecosystem into biology.[4] Tansley was a founding member of the first professional society of ecologists, the Central Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation, which later organised the British Ecological Society, and served as its first president and foundi