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William McKinley Hiesey

(21 Aug) 1903 - 1998 (07 Aug)




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William Hiesey was an American botanist who, in collaboration with David Keck and Jens Clausen, established the concept of ecotypes, that "climatic races" are adapted by heredity to grow in specific environments, rather than environment-induced changes in growth form somehow affecting genetic makeup.


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1939. Clausen, Jens, David D. Keck and William M. Hiesey. The Concept of Species Based on Experiment. American Journal of Botany (2): 103-106.Google Scholar
1940. Clausen, J., D. D. Keck and W. M. Hiesey. Experimental studies on the nature of species. I. Effect of varied environments on western North American plants.. Carnegie Inst. Washington. (520): vii + 452 pp..Google Scholar
1945. Clausen, J., D. D. Keck and W. M. Hiesey. Experimental studies on the nature of species. II. Plant Evolution through amphidiploidy and autoploidy, with examples from the Madiinae.. (Publication No. 564): vii + 174 pp..Google Scholar
1953. Hiesey, William M.. Growth and Development of Species and Hybrids of Poa Under Controlled Temperatures. American Journal of Botany (4): 205-221.Google Scholar
1958. Metcalfe, C. R., Frits W. Went, W. C. Ashby, L. T. Evans, A. W. Galston, H. Hellmers and Wm. M. Hiesey. The Experimental Control of Plant Growth, with Special Reference to the Earhart Plant Research Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology,,,,,. Kew Bulletin (2): 228-230.Google Scholar


1970. Hiesey, William M. and Malcolm A. Nobs. Genetic and Transplant Studies on Contrasting Species and Ecological Races of the Achillea millefolium Complex. Botanical Gazette (3): 245-259.Google Scholar
1973. Corn, Carolyn A. and William M. Hiesey. Altitudinal Variation in Hawaiian Metrosideros. American Journal of Botany (10): 991-1002.Google Scholar
1983. Grant, Verne, William H. Hiesey and Malcolm A. Nobs. Experimental Studies on the Nature of Species. VI. Interspecific Hybrid Derivatives between Facultatively Apomictic Species of Bluegrasses and their Responses to Contrasting Environments.,. Systematic Botany (1): 102-103.Google Scholar