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Philip L. Sclater

British ornithologist

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history of biogeography

  • Earth's floral regions
    In biogeographic region: History

    …1858 by the English ornithologist Philip L. Sclater, who based his division of the terrestrial world on the distributions of birds. In the 1870s the biologist Adolf Engler devised a schema based on plant distributions. The phytogeographic work of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, a plant collector and systematist, and the…

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