The Phytogeography of Nebraska

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Phytogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of plants. The Phytogeography of Nebraska, a work by Frederic Edward Clements and Roscoe Pound, was a broad survey of plants and plant communities in Nebraska. This publication served as their joint doctoral thesis and introduced early ecological techniques that Clements would later refine.12

Frederic Edward Clements was an American botanist and ecologist known for his influence on the study of plant communities and plant succession. Roscoe Pound, a fellow student of Charles E. Bessey at the University of Nebraska, became a distinguished legal scholar. Nebraska's landscape was originally covered by prairies, with deciduous trees along river valleys and conifers in highlands.23

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Frederic Edward Clements
…distinguished legal scholar, Clements wrote The Phytogeography of Nebraska (1898). This broad survey of plants and plant communities served as the joint doctoral thesis for Pound and Clements, and it introduced some of the ecological techniques that Clements later perfected.
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…distinguished legal scholar, Clements wrote The Phytogeography of Nebraska (1898). This broad survey of plants and plant communities served as the joint doctoral thesis for Pound and Clements, and it introduced some of the ecological techniques that Clements later perfected.
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