WARMING, EUG.
Lagoa Santa. Et Bidrag til den biologiske Plantegeografi. Med en Fortegnelse over Lagoa Santas Hvirveldyr. Avec résumé français.
Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Lunos Kgl Hof-Bogtrykkeri, 1892.
4to. In a nice later half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. In "Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab". A nice and clean copy. (6), 159-488 pp. + 1 plate.
First edition of Warming’s work on the 1863–1866 expedition to Lagoa Santa in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he assisted the renowned Danish paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880), often called “the father of Brazilian paleontology.” In this seminal study, Warming documented the local flora and analyzed plant adaptations to the harsh conditions of the Cerrado biome such as drought and fire. The publication remains a landmark in the history of ecological research. Johannes Eugenius Warming (1841–1924), commonly known as Eugen Warming, was a pioneering Danish botanist widely recognized as one of the founding figures of modern ecology. He authored the first textbook on plant ecology in 1895, introduced the first university course in the subject, and helped define the scope and content of ecological science. In 1975, ecologist R. J. Goodland asserted: “If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence” ("The Tropical Origin of Ecology: Eugen Warming's Jubilee"). Warming wrote a number of textbooks on botany, plant geography and ecology, which were translated to several languages and were immensely influential at their time and later. Most important were “Plantesamfund and Haandbog i den systematiske Botanik”.
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