his experiments, but this experimental Lamarckism fell to experimental disproof in the 1930s. Clements spent much time trying to demonstrate the inheritance of acquired traits in plants. By the late 1930s scientists had provided Darwinian explanations for the results of his transplant experiments. Honors In 1903, the flower Clementsia rhodantha ("Clements's rose flower"), a stonecrop, was named in honor of Frederic Clements. Writings Among his works are: The Phytogeography of Nebraska (1898; second edition, 1900) Research Methods in Ecology (1905) Plant Physiology and Ecology (1907) Plant Succession. An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation (1916) Plant Indicators. The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice (1920) The Phylogenetic Method in Taxonomy: The North American Species of Artemisia, Chrysothamnus, and Atriplex (1923, with Harvey Monroe Hall) Plant Succession and Indicators. A definitive edition of Plant succession and Plant indicators (1928, reprinted 1973) Flower Families and Ancestors (1928, with Edith Clements) Plant Competition. An Analysis of Community Functions (1929, with J.E. Weaver & H.C. Hanson. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington The Genera of Fungi (1931, repr. 1965, with C. L. Shear) Nature and structure of the climax (1936). The Journal of Ecology, 24(1), 252–284. See also :Category:Taxa named by Frederic Clements Suzanne Simard References External Links Edith S. and Frederic E. Clements Papers, 1876–1969. University of Wyoming – American Heritage Center AHC Digital collection of Edith S. and Frederic E. Clements Clements Papers Document the History of Ecology AHC blog 1874 births 1945 deaths Academics from Nebraska American ecologists Ecological succession Lamarckism People from Lincoln, Nebraska Plant ecologists University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni