Willem Marius Docters van Leeuwen (16 March 1880 - 25 February 1960) was a Dutch botanist and entomologist who worked in the Dutch colony in Indonesia, where he was prominent for conducting studies on insect-plant interactions as well as for his long-term studies on the island of Krakatoa. Van Leeuwen was born in

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, Indonesia and was educated at the

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. He graduated in 1905 and received a PhD in 1907. He went to Salatiga, Central Java as an entomologist in 1908 and was also a school teacher in Semarang and later Bandung. He studied galls, ant-plant symbioses, pollination biology, montane flora and floral succession on the islands of Krakatau over the course of a long period. In 1918 he became director of the

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