Other Ecologists

Frank E. Egler studied under a number of pioneering ecologists, including George E. Nichols, Egler’s Ph.D. mentor at Yale, William S. Cooper, his M.S. mentor at the University of Minnesota, Henry C. Cowles, who Egler considered his undergraduate mentor at the University of Chicago. He also studied under Henry A. Gleason and Frederic E. Clements, who were considered elder statesmen of that first generation of ecologists.

Throughout his education, subsequent careers, and lifelong research into forest succession, he corresponded with countless botanists, ecologists, preservationists, naturalists, and scientists from around the world. As part of Dr. Egler’s archives, Aton Forest holds a large collection of his correspondence with these scientists.