Warming eug ferri mario (1 Ergebnisse)
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In den WarenkorbBelo Horizonte, 1973. Large8vo. Bound with the original printed wrappers in recent half calf. With author's presenation inscription: "On the occasion of the celebration of the / 50th anniversary of the death of Eugen Warming / who founded the science of Ecology / in Brazil, in 1863 - 1866, I present this work as a token of appre…ciation from / the Brazilian ecologists / Copenhagen / 16.9.1974 / Mario Guimaraes Ferri / Mario Ferri". A nice and clean copy. (12), 362, (24) pp. First Portugese translation ? with the translator?s presentation inscription - of Warming?s pioneering ecological study based on Warming?s fieldwork in Brazil during the 1860s. It represents one of the first systematic attempts to understand vegetation not merely through taxonomy but in relation to environment, function and adaptation. Translator Ferri (1918 ? 1985) pioneered field work in Plant Ecology in Brazil. His PhD thesis was one of the first scientific works of an experimental nature in the study of ecology of the vegetation of the cerrados. Warming spent several years (1863?1866) in the region of Lagoa Santa in the state of Minas Gerais, assisting the paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund, considered the father of the paleontology of Brazil.During this time, he undertook detailed observations of the local flora, particularly the cerrado vegetation?Brazil?s savanna biome. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Warming did not limit himself to cataloguing species. Instead, he explored how plants interacted with their environment: how they survived drought, coped with fire, and responded to poor soils. His focus on the functional aspects of vegetation-structure, life-form, and adaptation was deeply innovative and helped lay the groundwork for what would later become the discipline of ecology.