Leonard Webb (academic)
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Leonard James Webb AO (28 October 1920 – 25 November 2008) was a widely awarded Australian ecologist and ethnobotanist who was the author or joint-author of over 112 scientific papers throughout the course of his professional career. His pioneering work as Senior Principal Research Scientist alongside Geoff Tracey in the CSIRO Rainforest Ecology Research Unit in the 1950s led to the publication of the first systematic classification of Australian rainforest vegetation in the Journal of Ecology in 1959.
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Leonard Webb (academic)
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Len Webb
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Len Webb
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2008-11-25
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Rockhampton, Queensland
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1920-10-28
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Environmental studies in Australian rainforests
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1956
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CSIRO
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Griffith University
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1920-10-28
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Leonard James Webb
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Webb circa 1950
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2008-11-25
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CSIRO Rainforest Ecology Research Unit
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A Physiognomic Classification of Australian Rainforests
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The Identification and Conservation of Habitat Types in the Wet Tropical Lowlands of North Queensland
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Australian
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Doris Webb
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Leonard James Webb AO (28 October 1920 – 25 November 2008) was a widely awarded Australian ecologist and ethnobotanist who was the author or joint-author of over 112 scientific papers throughout the course of his professional career. His pioneering work as Senior Principal Research Scientist alongside Geoff Tracey in the CSIRO Rainforest Ecology Research Unit in the 1950s led to the publication of the first systematic classification of Australian rainforest vegetation in the Journal of Ecology in 1959. In the early '80s, after decades of ongoing research, Webb and Tracey had accumulated a large corpus of scientific evidence which confirmed that Australian tropical rainforests had evolved from Gondwana over 100 million years ago and were not, as previously believed, relatively recent arrivals from South East Asia. This discovery served to consolidate the scientific basis for a number of major conservation campaigns across Queensland and paved the way for the subsequent successful World Heritage nomination of the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Aila Keto in 1988.
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Cassowary Award for Science and Conservation. Wet Tropics Management Authority
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Australian Centenary Medal for service to conservation and the environment in Queensland
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BHP Pursuit of Excellence Prize
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Doctor of the University, Griffith University
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Gold Medal, Ecological Society of Australia
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Officer of the Order of Australia for service to conservation, particularly in the field of rainforest ecology
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Leonard James Webb