The Diverse Contributions of J. Roger Bray and Gwendolyn Struik

摘要

J. Roger Bray, through post-Ph.D. collaboration with his former doctoral adviser at Wisconsin, JohnCurtis, was the lead author of one of the most significant postwar papers in the field of ecology (Brayand Curtis 1957, see Beals 1984). It presented a way of seeing the vegetation of a region quantitativelyand three-dimensionally. The paper took a major step toward ending the view held by some scientiststhat vegetation is a collection of distinct associations, and instead advanced the principle of continuousvariation, a view that over the next 20 years came to be accepted around the world.