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EDWARD SMITH DEEVEY, JR.
EDWARD SMITH DEEVEY, JR.
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the use of life tables in ecology. In aciclition to research papers in professional journals en c!
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a Distinguishec! Graduate Research Curatorship in Paleoecology and Professorship at the Florida State Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida
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During nls gractuate work at Yale ne macro tne first pollen stratigraphy for northeastern North America en c! macle another for Tibet, using material collectec!
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its surroundings. The most direct information about the ancient conditions within the lake was given by the remains of organisms, from organic molecules to visually recognizable fragments.
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with Richarc! Foster Flint of the geology clepartment, an authority on the Pleistocene in North America.
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The climax of his research development was the project at Florida, Historical Ecology of the Maya, that melded paleolimnology, archaeology, and climatology to interpret the record of environmental consequences of prolonged human activity in a changing climate ~ ~ 967, ~ 979, ~ 987, ~ ~ . It was characteristic of Deevey's way of thinking sometimes to compare the successional changes of a lake over
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In 196768 he hac! a National Science Foundation Senior Postcloctoral Fellowship en c!
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characterized his speaking and writing style as "verbal play and deep understanding of highly important truths," referring to his 1970 presiclential aciciress to the Ecological Society of America, "In Defense of MucI" (1970~. In it Deevey pointer!
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Additional information came from tape-recorded remarks by Edward Deevey and G Evelyn Hutchinson at the seventieth birthday celebration.
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1991. Edward Smith Deevey 1914-1988.
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36:115-34. 1947 Life tables for natural populations of animals.
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Part 1. Europe and North America.
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Pollen accumulation rates: Estimates from lateglacial sediment of Rogers Lake. Science 145:1293-95.
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