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Edward Forbes ( 12 de febrero de 1815 – 18 de noviembre de 1854) 1 fue un naturalista, y botánico inglés de la isla de Man . Biografía. Natural de Douglas (Isla de Man).
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Author abbrev. (botany) E.Forbes. Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) [1] was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland, during the recent ice age. [2]
(1815/02/12 - 1854/11/18) Edward Forbes. Naturalista, y botánico inglés. Nació el 12 de febrero 1815 en Douglas, Isla de Man. Su hermano David fue un destacado mineralogista. Desde niño se dedicó a recolectar insectos, conchas de moluscos, plantas, fósiles...
Edward Forbes (born Feb. 12, 1815, Douglas, Isle of Man—died Nov. 18, 1854, near Edinburgh) was a British naturalist, pioneer in the field of biogeography, who analyzed the distribution of plant and animal life of the British Isles as related to certain geological changes.
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The Forbes family is one of the components of the Boston Brahmins —a wealthy extended American family long prominent in Boston, Massachusetts. The family's fortune originates from trading opium and tea between North America and China in the 19th century plus other investments in the same period. The name descends from Scottish immigrants and ...
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Azoic hypothesis. The Azoic hypothesis (sometimes referred to as the Abyssus theory) is a superseded scientific theory proposed by Edward Forbes in 1843, stating that the abundance and variety of marine life decreased with increasing depth and, by extrapolation of his own measurements, Forbes calculated that marine life would cease ...
1 de abr. de 2010 · Edward Forbes was a wide-ranging British naturalist who was at the center of a movement to investigate marine life in European waters. Philip Gosse was a largely self-taught naturalist who conducted capable original research, but achieved more prominence as a popularizer of coastal marine life.
