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Robert Harding Whittaker (1920-1980) was an
American vegetation ecologist, active in the
1950s to the
1970s.
Born in
Wichita, Kansas, he obtained a
B.A. at Washburn Municipal College (now
Washburn University) in
Topeka, Kansas, and, following
military service, his
Ph.D. at the
University of Illinois.
He held teaching and research positions at
Washington State College in Hanford, Washington, the Hanford National Laboratories (where he pioneered use of
radioactive tracers in
ecosystem studies),
Brooklyn College, University of California-Irvine, and, finally
Cornell University.
Extremely productive, Whittaker was a leading proponent and developer of
gradient analysis to address questions in plant
community ecology. He provided strong empirical evidence against some ideas of vegetation development advocated by
Frederic Clements. Whittaker was most active in the areas of plant
community analysis,
succession, and
productivity.
He also first proposed the
five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the
Animalia,
Plantae,
Fungi,
Protista, and
Monera.
Whittaker was elected to the
National Academy of Science in 1974, received the
Ecological Society of America's
Eminent Ecologist Award in 1980, and was otherwise widely recognized and honored. He collaborated with many other ecologists, and was particularly active in cultivating international collaborations.
Ph.D. Students
Ecologists completing Ph.D.s under Whittaker include Walter Westman, Robert Peet (now at
University of North Carolina), Susan Bratton, Thomas Wentworth (now at
North Carolina State University), Owen Sholes, Mark Wilson (now at
Oregon State University), Linda Olsvig Whittaker and Kerry Woods.
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