Sir Arthur George Tansley (August 15, 1871 - November 25, 1955) was an English botanist who was a pioneer in the science of ecology^[1]. From the start, he was much influenced by the Danish plant ecologist Eugenius Warming^[2]. He championed the term ecosystem in 1935 and ecotope in 1939. He was one of the founders of the British Ecological Society, and editor of the Journal of Ecology for twenty years.

The botany journal New Phytologist, which Tansley founded in 1902, publishes a special paper in each issue called the "Tansley Review". This series, featuring articles that synthesize current trends in botanical thought, was named after Tansley in recognition of his wide interests and importance to the discipline as a whole.

Arthur Tansley also theorised about psychology, with a psychoanalytic emphasis. His The New Psychology and its Relation to Life (1920) was his first book to attract a broad readership. Recent research by Peder Anker has asserted a close theoretical relationship between Tansley's ecology and his psychology.^[3]

[edit] Notable students

• Alexander Watt

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Arthur Tansley
• Edith Chick and Arthur Tansley
• New Phytologist, Tansley Reviews

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