TY - BOOK ID - 77956800 TI - Nature's Champion : B. W. Wells, Tar Heel Ecologist PY - 1993 SN - 1469616432 146961121X 9781469611211 9781469616438 9780807858707 0807858706 0807820814 9780807820810 PB - Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Ecologists KW - Botanists KW - Biologists KW - Conservationists KW - Naturalists KW - Scientists KW - Plant biologists KW - Plant scientists KW - Plant specialists KW - Wells, B. W. KW - Botanists --North Carolina -- Biography. KW - Ecologists -- North Carolina -- Biography. KW - Phytologists UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77956800 AB - Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B. W. Wells (1884-1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state's diverse plant life long before ecology and conservation became popular causes. A keen observer of the natural landscape, Wells provided the first scientific descriptions in modern terms of the forces that shaped coastal communities, bogs and savannahs, the Carolina bays, pine forests, old fields, and mountain grassy balds. But the broader impact of his life lay in his championship and popularization of nature. Outside academic circles, ER -