Raymond Laurel Lindeman was an ecologist whose graduate research is often credited with being a seminal study in field of ecosystem ecology.
Education
He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota with his thesis work being concerned with the history and ecological dynamics of Cedar Bog Lake, located in what is known today as the University of Minnesota"s Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in central Minnesota.
Career
While a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University with noted limnologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Lindeman submitted a chapter of his thesis for publication in the journal Ecology that outlined the Ten percent law. His manuscript was initially rejected for its generalisations but was published after Hutchinson and others were able to convince the editor of the paper"s merits. This publication appeared in 1942, shortly after Lindeman"s death caused by a rare form of hepatitis.
An annual award in Lindeman"s honor is given by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography to the outstanding paper written that year by a young aquatic scientist
Raymond L. Lindeman is also honored today with a lecture series in his name in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, as well as an informative plaque on the same University"s Wall of Discovery. Biographical and historical studies on Raymond L. Lindeman.
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"Memories of Raymond Laurel Lindeman".
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 67: 20–15. Sobczak, West Virginia (2005). "Lindeman"s trophic dynamic aspect of ecology: "Will you still need me when I"m 64?".
Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 14: 53–57. Sterner Rwanda (2012) Raymond Laurel Lindeman and the Trophic Dynamic Viewpoint.
The Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 21(2): in press
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