Leonty Grigoryevich Ramensky (Russian: Раменский, Леонтий Григорьевич; June 16 [O.S. June 6] 1884 – January 27, 1953) was a Russian plant ecologist who conceived several important ideas that were overlooked in the West and later ’re-invented’ by western scientists. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Old Style (or OS) and New Style (or NS) are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Russian people (Русские— Russkie) are an East Slavic Ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries Ecology (from Greek grc οἶκος oikos, "house(hold" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of
He graduated from the Petrograd University in 1916 and obtained a Ph. Saint Petersburg State University ( Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a Russian federal state-owned higher D. in biology in 1935. From 1911 to 1928 he worked in the Research Institute of the Voronezh Gouvernement (now Voronezh State University) and from 1928 in the State Grassland Institute (later All-union Scientific Research Institute of Forages dedicated to V. Voronezh (Воро́неж) is a large city in southwestern Russia not far from Ukraine. Voronezh State University is one of the main universities in Central Russia. R. Williams). Ramensky was a proponent of the view that biotic communities consist of species behaving individualistically (much like Henry Gleason in the U. Henry Allan Gleason (1882-1975 was a noted American ecologist, botanist, and taxonomist, most recognized for his endorsement of the Individualistic S. A. ). This was in strong contrast to the prevailing view of communities as super-organisms, held by the powerful V.N.Sukachov and his consorts (much like Frederic Clements in the U. Sukachev Vladimir Nikolayevich (Сукачёв Владимир Николаевич(1880 Aleksandrovka ( Potsdam)-1967 Moscow) is a Russian Geobotanist Frederic Edward Clements ( September 16, 1874 - July 26, 1945) was an American Plant ecologist and pioneer in the study S. A. ). Hence, Ramensky was marginalized within the Russian scientific community and was only posthumously rehabilitated by Russian ecologists. Much later, the significance of his ideas was discovered by ecologists in the West.
Selected scientific works
- Ramensky, L. G. (1930) Zur Methodik der vergleichenden Bearbeitung und Ordnung von Pflanzenlisten und anderen Objekten, die durch mehrere verschiedenartig wirkende Faktoren bestimmt werden. Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen (Breslau) 18: 269-304. Translated from the Russian original published 1929 in Trudy Soveščaniya Geobotanikov-lugovedov.
In this work, Ramensky criticized the use of hierarchical classifications of plant communities and advocated ordination ("Ordnung") of communities (and other complex objects with multiple determining factors, such as soil profile and weather data) instead. He was explicit about assuming unimodal responses of species to underlying gradients in the environment. This was long before Correspondence analysis was first used (1952), the now classic applications of ordination to plant communities by Roger J. Bray & John T. Curtis and David W. Goodall and the theoretical foundations of gradient analysis was developed by Whittaker and others (1970'es onwards). Robert Harding Whittaker (1920–1980 was an American Vegetation Ecologist, active in the 1950s to the 1970s
- Ramensky, L. G. (1938) Introduction to comprehensive soil-plant studies of land (in Russian). Selkhozgiz, Moskva.
In this work, Ramensky proposed fundamental plant life strategies towards stress and disturbance. This work is a precursor of Grime’s CSR strategy scheme. John Philip Grime is a prominent British Ecologist and Emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield.
- Ramensky, L. G. , Tsatsenkin, I. A. , Čižikov, O. N. & Antipov, N. A. (1956) Ecological evaluation of grazed lands by their vegetation (in Russian). Sel'khozgiz, Moskva.
In this work, Ramensky and colleagues listed some 1,400 plant species from European Russia with tabulated quantitative indicator values for their tolerances for soil moisture, nutrients, grazing etc. European Russia refers to the western areas of Russia that lie within Europe, comprising roughly 3960000 km² and spanning across 40% of Europe This work is a precursor of Ellenberg’s widespread indicator values. Heinz Ellenberg ( August 1, 1913 in Hamburg-Harburg - May 2, 1997 in Göttingen) was a German Biologist
- Ramensky, L. G. (1971) Problems and methods in the study of the plant cover: collected works (in Russian). Nauka, Leningrad.
This volume contains the collected works of Ramensky.
References
- Rabotnov, T.A. (1953) L. Tikhon Alexandrovich Rabotnov, Тихон Александрович Работнов ( July 6, 1904 – September 16, 2000) was a Russian G. Ramenskii (obituary in Russian). Botaničeskii Žurnal 38 (5).
- Ponyatovskaya, V.M. (1959) On two trends in phytocoenology (in Russian). Botaničeskii Žurnal 44(3): 402-407. Translated and annotated by Jack Major in Vegetatio 10(5): 373-385
- Major, J. (1962) Autecological evaluation of Russian plants. Ecology 43(1): 177-179.
- Grime, J.P., Hodgson, J. John Philip Grime is a prominent British Ecologist and Emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield. G. and Hunt, R. (2007) Comparative Plant Ecology: A Functional Approach to common British Species, 2nd edn. Castlepoint Press, 752 p. Panel: The research contribution of L. G. Ramenskii (p. 5).
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Biography in Russian [1]
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