Adolphe Jules César Auguste Dureau de la Malle (3 March 1777 – 17 May 1857) was a Saint Dominican

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

, naturalist, historian and artist. He was the son of the scholar and translator Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle. Dureau de la Malle published a number of works on the economy and

topography Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the land forms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps. Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary sci ...

of the classic countries, i.e. Italy and

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at the time of the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...

: *''On the population in ancient Italy'' (De la Population de l'Italie ancienne) (1825) *''On agriculture, administration and units of measurement of the Romans'' (De l'Agriculture, de l'Administration, des Poids et Mesures des Romains) (1827–1828) *''On the topography of Carthage'' (De la Topographie de Carthage) (1835). As a naturalist, he published on the origins of the cereal crops. * ''De l'Origine et de la patrie des Céréales'' (1819 et 1826) and, his most significant work, on vegetation succession. * ''Mémoire sur l'alternance ou sur ce problème: la succession alternative dans la reproduction des espèces végétales vivant en société, est-elle une loi générale de la nature''. Annales des sciences naturelles, 15 (1825): 353–381. Rendered in English: Memoir on alternation or on alternative succession in the reproduction of plant species living in a community – is it a general law of nature? Here he present results of his observations in clear-cut forests. He was the first to use the term succession (prior to Steenstrups use) about an ecological phenomenon and probably the first to use the term

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(societé) for an assemblage of (plant) individuals of different species (prior to

Karl Möbius Karl August Möbius (7 February 1825 in Eilenburg – 26 April 1908 in Berlin) was a German zoologist who was a pioneer in the field of ecology and a former director of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Early life Möbius was born in Eilen ...

). Cowles, Henry C. (1911) The causes of vegetational cycles. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1 (1): 3–2

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Malle, Adolphe Dureau De La 1777 births 1857 deaths People of Saint-Domingue French geographers French naturalists 19th-century French historians French draughtsmen Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery French people of Haitian descent French male non-fiction writers