Shelford, VE (English spelling) ShelfordVE

Japanese: Shelford，V.E.（英語表記）ShelfordVE

…American ecologist. Born in New York State. He served as a professor at the University of Illinois for many years, and was the first president of the Ecological Society of America. In his early years, he studied the changes in distribution of beetles and fish associated with plant succession, emphasizing the interrelationships between the environment and living organisms. He also used thermo-hygrostats to investigate the relationship between insect growth and survival and temperature and humidity, and attempted to predict changes in distribution and abundance. Based on these studies, he wrote Laboratory and Field Ecology (1929) and other works, contributing to the development of so-called individual ecology. In his later years, he began to emphasize interrelationships between species within biological communities, and together with botanist FE Clements, he published Bio-ecology (1939), which took this position. …

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…This idea was further developed by American FE Clements. Clements, a plant ecologist, started working with animal ecologist VE Shelford from around 1930 to pioneer a new field of ecology called bioecology, which does not separate plants and animals. They named a regional unit of a biological community a biome, and considered it to be a highly advanced organism, just like an individual organism. …

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…アメリカの生態学者。ニューヨーク州生れ。長くイリノイ大学教授を務め，アメリカ生態学会初代会長でもあった。初期には植物の遷移に伴う甲虫や魚の分布の変化を研究し，環境と生物との相互関係を強調し，また恒温恒湿器を用いて昆虫の成長･生存と温湿度との関係をしらべ，これから分布や発生量の変化を予測しようとした。これらの研究をもとに《実験室と野外の生態学Laboratory and Field Ecology》(1929)などを著し，いわゆる個生態学の発展につくしたが，後期には生物群集内の種間相互関係を強調するようになり，植物学者F.E.クレメンツとともにこの立場に立った著書《生物生態学Bio‐ecology》(1939)を発表した。…

【生態系】より

…こうした考え方は，アメリカのクレメンツF.E.Clementsによりさらに発展させられた。植物生態学者であるクレメンツは，1930年ころから動物生態学者であるシェルフォードV.E.Shelfordとの共同研究で，動植物を分離しない〈生物生態学〉という新しい生態学の分野を開拓した。彼らは生物共同体の地域的な単位をバイオームbiomeと名づけ，それはあたかも生物の個体と同じような高度の有機体と考えた。…

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