Leonard Webb (other)
Leonard Webb may refer to: * Leonard Webb (academic) (1920–2004), Australian ecologist and ethnobotanist * Leonard Webb (veteran) Leonard James Webb (16 April 1921 – 19 March 2011) was a British World War II veteran who was present at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Biography Early life Webb was born in 192 ...

Leonard Webb (academic)
Leonard James Webb (28 October 1920 – 25 November 2008) was a widely awarded Australian ecologist and ethnobotanist who was the author or joint-author of over 112 scientific papers throughout the course of his professional career. His pioneering work as Senior Principal Research Scientist alongside Geoff Tracey in the CSIRO Rainforest Ecology Research Unit in the 1950s led to the publication of the first systematic classification of Australian rainforest vegetation in the ''Journal of Ecology'' in 1959. In the early '80s, after decades of ongoing research, Webb and Tracey had accumulated a large corpus of scientific evidence which confirmed that Australian tropical rainforests had evolved from Gondwana over 100 million years ago and were not, as previously believed, relatively recent arrivals from South East Asia. This discovery served to consolidate the scientific basis for a number of major conservation campaigns across Queensland and paved the way for the subsequent succe ...
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