Miklos Udvardy
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Miklos Dezso Ferenc Udvardy | |
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| Born | 23 March 1919 |
| Died | 27 January 1998 (aged 78) Sacramento, California, United States |
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| Fields | Biology, biogeography, and ornithology |
Miklos Dezso Ferenc Udvardy (March 23, 1919 – January 27, 1998) was a Hungarian-born Canadian biologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. He made significant contributions to various fields, including biogeography, evolutionary biology, ornithology, and vegetation classification. Udvardy published 191 papers and books including an influential text on zoogeography.
Early life and career
[edit]He began his career as a research biologist at the Tihanyi Biological Station, located on Lake Balaton in western Hungary.[1]
Selected publications
[edit]- Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN, [1].
- Udvardy, Miklos D. F. (1975) "World Biogeographical Provinces" (Map). The CoEvolution Quarterly, Sausalito, California.
References
[edit]- ^ Csuti, Blair; Brittan, Martin R. (1999). "In Memoriam: Mikos D. F. Udvardy, 1919-1998" (PDF). The Auk. 116 (1). doi:10.2307/4089468. JSTOR 4089468.
External links
[edit]- Dynamic Zoogeography (1969)
Categories:
- 1919 births
- 1998 deaths
- 20th-century American zoologists
- 20th-century Hungarian zoologists
- American ornithologists
- Biogeographers
- Hungarian ornithologists
- Academic staff of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
- Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty