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Nationality
  
Spanish

Role
  
Scientist

Name
  
Ramon Margalef

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Margalef


Ramon Margalef Universitat de Barcelona Margalef deu anys

Born
  
May 16, 1919Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (
1919-05-16
)

Institutions
  
University of Barcelona

Died
  
May 23, 2004, Barcelona, Spain

Books
  
Perspectives in Ecological Theory

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Ramón Margalef i López (Barcelona 16 May 1919 - 23 May 2004) was a Catalan biologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. Margalef, one of the most prominent scientists that Spain has produced, worked at the Institute of Applied Biology (1946–1951), and at the Fisheries Research Institute, which he directed during 1966-1967. He created the Department of Ecology of the University of Barcelona, from where he trained a huge number of ecologists, limnologists and oceanographers. In 1967 he became Spain's first professor of ecology.

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In 1957, with the translation into English of his inaugural lecture as a member of the Barcelona Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, "Information Theory in Ecology", he gained a worldwide audience. Another groundbreaking article, "On certain unifying principles in ecology", published in American Naturalist in 1963, and his book "Perspectives in Ecological Theory" (1968), based on his guest lectures at the University of Chicago, consolidated him as one of the leading thinkers of modern ecology. In the summer of 1958 he was professor of Marine ecology at the Institute of Marine Biology (currently Department of Marine Sciences) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and produced the work Comunidades Naturales ("Natural Communities").

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Some of his most important work includes the application of information theory to ecological studies and the creation of mathematical models for the study of populations. Among his books, the most influential are: Natural Communities (1962), Perspectives In Ecological Theory (1968), Ecology (1974), The Biosphere (1980), Limnology (1983) and Theory of Ecological Systems (1991). He received many scientific awards, including the inaugural medal of the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences, the Naumann-Thienemann Medal from the International Society of Limnology (SIL), the Ramón y Cajal Award of the Spanish Government, and the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia (Catalan Government).

Ramon Margalef Paul Ehrlich receives Ramon Margalef Award

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Publications


  • Full list of publications by Professor Margalef

  • Ramon Margalef Universitat de Barcelona The ecologist Ramon Margalef a great

    Selected publications

    Papers

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  • —— (1960). "Ideas for a synthetic approach to the ecology of running waters". Int. Rev. ges. Hydrobiol. (45): 133–153. 
  • —— (1963). "On certain unifying principles in ecology". Am. Nat. (97): 357-374. 
  • —— (1978). "Life-forms of phytoplankton as survival alternatives in an unstable environment". Oceanol. Acta (1): 493–509. 
  • Books

  • —— (1962). Comunidades naturales. Instituto de Biología Marina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. Mayagüez. 
  • —— (1968). Perspectives in ecological theory. University of Chicago Press. 
  • —— (1974). Ecología. Barcelona: Omega. 
  • ——; Planas M.D., Armengol J., Vidal A., Prat N., Guisset A., Toja J., Estrada M. (1976). Limnología de los embalses españoles. Madrid: Dirección General de Obras Hidraúlicas. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
  • —— (1980). La biosfera: entre la termodinámica y el juego. Barcelona: Omega. 
  • —— (1983). Limnología. Barcelona: Omega. 
  • —— (1992). Planeta azul, planeta verde. Barcelona: Prensa Científica SA. 
  • —— (1994). Limnology now: a paradigm of planetary problems. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 
  • —— (1997). Our biosphere. Oldendorf: Ecology Institute. 
  • References

    Ramon Margalef Wikipedia


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