Ramon margalef was, for a long time, the limnologist, the marine ecologist mrgalef the ecologist, straight and to the point, catalan and spanish par excellence. Pdf on jun, 2012, josefina castellvi i piulachs and others published ramon margalef lopez. Reflections on ecology after the legacy of ramon margalef. To homogenize it for purposes of analysis, which is what illconsidered counting does, is to miscon strue its nature. He was emeritus professor of ecology at the faculty of biology of the university of barcelona.
His father, ramon margalef i adell, was a young farmer that moved to barcelona with his parents and other family members after the outbreak of phylloxera dactylosphaera vitifoliae, a small insect, ruined the family grapevines ramon margalef and his sister vicenta circa 1924. The dominant topics in his works was both marine and freshwater. Ramon margalef i lopez barcelona 16 may 1919 23 may 2004 was a spanish catalan biologist and ecologist. Alba argerich terradas assistant professor senior research department of forest engineering, resources, and management oregon state university, corvallis, or, usa. Ramon margalef prize website most of margalefs scientific papers as pdfs.
Ramon margalef ecologia pdf download ramon margalef passed away on 23 may, shortly after celebrating his 85th birthday. Ramon margalef was the most important catalan and spanish limnologist, marine biologist, and ecologist of the twentieth century. A new limnological method for the investigation of thin layered epilithic. More than pure numbers, ecolo gists need to measure the distribution and not. Latest was alison roman, urban politics of covid19, hiroshima peace memorial park and berlin. Pdf on apr 29, 2014, narcis prat and others published ramon margalef 1919 2004. Margalef, one of the most prominent scientists that spain has produced. For margalef, then, an ecosystem is, unavoid ably, a system of organized heterogeneity. Presentation mode open print download current view. Ramon margalef, professor emeritus of ecology of the universi ty of barcelona, catalonia, and member for the institute for cata lan studies, passed away at age 85 on may 23, 2004. In 2014 the tenth anniversary of the death of professor ramon margalef is commemorated. Margalefs papers citations and those of his six main books in the three. This article presents an overview of the publications of dr. Lifeforms of phytoplankton as survival alternatives in an unstable environment.