John Ernest Weaver


John Ernst Weaver was an American botanist, prairie ecologist, and university professor.
Weaver was born in Villisca, Iowa. He attained a PhD at the University of Minnesota, 1916. He was "Instructor of Botany" at Washington State College from 1912 to 1913. In 1915 he became "Assistant professor of Botany" at the University of Nebraska where he was a plant ecology professor from 1917 until his retirement in 1952.
Weaver published many works regarding vegetation and ecology of prairies. In 1929 he and Henry Chandler Cowles published the first American ecology textbook. He was a member of the Botanical Society of America, the Ecological Society of America, and the Nebraska Academy of Sciences.

Books

full-text online at University of Nebraska-Lincoln