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Carl Ludwig Willdenow

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Willdenow came up with an idea to explain restricted plant distributions. Willdenow suggested that it was based on past history with mountains surrounded by seas with different sets of plants initially restricted to the peaks which then spread downward and out with receding sea levels. This would
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plants, brought back by Humboldt. He was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that the same climate had plants having common characteristics. His
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and he started a herbarium collection in his teenage years. In 1794, he became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He was a director of the
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Hiepko, Paul (2006). "Humboldt, his botanical mentor Willdenow, and the fate of the collections of Humboldt & Bonpland".
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from 1801 until his death. In 1807, Alexander von Humboldt helped to expand the garden. There he studied many
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that plants were distributed as they had been in the past and that there had been no changes.
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Humboldt notes that as a young man, he was unable to identify plants using Willdenow's
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fit with the Biblical notion of floods. This was contrary to earlier assertions by
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Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten für Forstmänner und Liebhaber der Botanik
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Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach with Case Studies
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Enumeratio plantarum horti regii botanici Berolinensis
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Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
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Willd.
Wild

Berlin
Kingdom of Prussia
Holy Roman Empire
Berlin
Kingdom of Prussia
University of Halle
botany
pharmacy
taxonomy
Humboldt University of Berlin
botanist
pharmacist
taxonomist
phytogeography
Alexander von Humboldt
Christian Konrad Sprengel
Berlin
medicine
botany
University of Halle
Unter den Linden
J. G. Gleditsch
Botanical garden
Berlin
South American
herbarium
Botanical Garden in Berlin

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