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Heinz Ellenberg (
August 1,
1913 in
Hamburg-Harburg -
May 2,
1997 in
Göttingen) was a
German biologist,
botanist and
ecologist. Ellenberg was an advocate of viewing ecological systems through holistic means.
Life
Ellenberg's father (a school teacher) died during
World War I in
1914. From
1920 to
1932 Ellenberg studied in
Hanover, where his interest in local flora and fauna was established, and where he camme in contact with
Reinhold Tüxen.
In
1932 he moved to
Montpellier, where he started his studies of ecology under the direction of
Swiss ecologist
Josias Braun-Blanquet. Later he studied botany, zoology, chemistry and geology in
Heidelberg, Hanover and
Göttingen, where he obtained a doctorate in 1938 in Göttingen under
Franz Firbas.
After completing his doctorate he worked at the central office for vegetation mapping in
Hannover under the direction of
Reinhold Tüxen and during
World War II served in a "research relay". Ellenberg successfully worked on developing roof plantings of bunkers that would allow them to blend in with landscape and deceive hostile airplanes. These proceeded from layers of earth up to two meters thick, which are still visible today.
After the war he served as an assistant of
Heinrich Walter in
Stuttgart. In
1953 he became a professor at the
University of Hamburg. From
1958 he was a director at Department of Botany at the
ETH Zurich.
Heintz Ellenberg was among the first to experimentally show the importance of a distinction between
fundamental niche and
realized niche for plants. He experimentally grew two species of
Bromus along a moisture gradient and showed that, in monoculture,both species were able to inhabitat the entire range. Nevertheless, in mixture, the two species dissociated and showed clear preference for either the dry or the moist end of the gradient
In
1966 he moved to the
University of Göttingen, where he became
emeritus in
1981.
Personal life
In
1941 he married Charlotte Metelmann. After retiring, he ran a farmhouse and wrote a revised edition of "Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen in ökologischer, dynamischer und historischer Sicht".
Bibliography
- Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen in ökologischer, dynamischer und historischer Sicht. - Stuttgart: Ulmer 1996 (5. Auflage; 1. Auflage: 1963), ISBN 3825281043
- Zeigerwerte nach Ellenberg|Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. - Scripta Geobotanica 1974, 1979 und 1992, ISBN 3884525182
- Bauernhaus und Landschaft in ökologischer und historischer Sicht. - Stuttgart Ulmer 1990, ISBN 3800130874
- Unkrautgemeinschaften als Zeiger für Klima und Boden. Landwirtschaftliche Pflanzensoziologie I. - Stuttgart: Ulmer 1950
- Vegetation Südosteuropas. (Mitautor) - München: Urban & Fischer 1974, ISBN 3437301683
- Wiesen und Weiden und ihre standörtliche Bewertung. - Stuttgart: Ulmer 1952
- Aufgaben und Methoden der Vegetationskunde. - Stuttgart: Ulmer 1956
- Ökosystemforschung. (Hrsg.) - Heidelberg, Berlin, New York: Springer Verlag 1973
- Ökologische Beiträge zur Umweltgestaltung. - Stuttgart: Ulmer 1983
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