As a result of this mutually-beneficial relationship, alder improves the fertility of the soils where it grows, and as a pioneer species, it helps provide additional nitrogen for the successional species which follow.

Many defoliated forest areas were quickly invaded by aggressive pioneer species, such as bamboo and cogon grass, which make it unlikely the forests will be able to regenerate.

This low-lying herbaceous flora seems to be pioneer in nature, and most of it is believed to be composed of recently introduced species.

Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt ( 1769 – 1859 ) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.

At the beginning of soil formation, the bare rock out crops is gradually colonized by pioneer species ( lichens and mosses ).

It is a very hardy pioneer species dispersed by birds and abundant in dry Mediterranean.

They are typically rather short-lived pioneer species widespread in the Northern Hemisphere particularly in northern temperate and boreal climates.

They are regarded as pioneer species, rapidly colonising open ground especially in secondary successional sequences following a disturbance or fire.

The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic.

Being aggressive, rapid growth trees, whose succulent fruits are readily sought by various animals, they tend to be among the first pioneer species to occupy former forest areas cleared for pasture or altered by human activity.

Greenhouse experiments have been performed with some species of Cecropia indicating them as “ gap ” and “ pioneer ” species under different light regimes and nutrient treatments.

Some species ( C. maxima, C. tacuna, C. teleabla and C. telenitida ) do not show the traits of pioneer species though, as they occur evenly in the forest.

The pioneer Cecropia species have a higher demand for light, occur in open habitats, relatively rapid growth rates and short-lived leaves.

According to McKey ’ s theory, these pioneer species tend to invest more heavily in pearl bodies and less heavily in Mullerian bodies than more shade-tolerant species with slower intrinsic growth rates and longer leaf life spans.

Species in the genus Cecropia are some of the most abundant pioneer tree species in natural tree fall gaps inside primary forests.

This trait makes them somewhat like a pioneer species, despite the fact that their long lifespan is characteristic of R-selected species.

Rainforest pioneer species grew rapidly, but trees there and in the savannah suffered from etiolation and weakness caused by lack of stress wood, normally created in response to winds in natural conditions.

Generally speaking, most tropical pioneer species have orthodox seeds but many climax species have recalcitrant or intermediate seeds.

Today one comes across both pioneer species like European Rowans and different sorts of shrubs there.

A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham ( commonly known by its domain name, c2. com ), on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository.

William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS ( 3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942 ), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.

It is commonly cultivated in South Africa, where the species is also a useful pioneer plant in the reclamation of disturbed land.

Elayne Angel, the first person awarded the Master Piercer's certificate by Jim Ward, body piercing pioneer and founder of Gauntlet, is commonly associated with the promotion and popularity of this piercing.

Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia ( 1724 – 1 March 1806 ) ( Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי ), commonly known as the Hida ( by the acronym of his name, חיד " א ), was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.

Though it is commonly thought to be true, Haight Street in San Francisco may or may not have been named after Haight himself since it is thought by some that the street was indeed named after his uncle, the pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight ( 1820 – 1869 ).

Telcordia is pioneer in the field of prepaid Charging system commonly called as Intelligent network.

The groundbreaking study was the pioneer of Offender profiling and political psychology, today commonly used by many countries as part of assessing international relations.

He is a pioneer of assisted fertilization technologies such as in vitro fertilization and direct sperm injection into egg ( commonly called intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI ) which are widely used today in human infertility clinics throughout the world.

The nineteenth century French pioneer sociologist Émile Durkheim borrowed the word from French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau and used it in his influential book Suicide ( 1897 ), outlining the social ( and not individual ) causes of suicide, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values ( referred to as normlessness ), and an associated feeling of alienation and purposelessness.

A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown.

Many people are familiar with the idea of a " deep " trance, and earlier in his career Erickson was a pioneer in researching the unique and remarkable phenomena that are associated with that state, spending many hours at a time with individual test subjects, deepening the trance.

" Powell's recommendations for development of the West were largely ignored until after the Dust Bowl of the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in untold suffering associated with pioneer subsistence farms that failed due to insufficient rain.

Although in later years Lights Out would be closely associated with Oboler, he was always quick to credit Cooper as the series ' creator and spoke highly of the older author, calling him " the unsung pioneer of radio dramatic techniques " and the first person Oboler knew of who understood that radio drama could be an art form.

During its first 60 years, influential artists associated with the school included Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and pioneer of motion graphics ; Maynard Dixon, painter of San Francisco ’ s labor movement and of the landscape of the West ; Henry Kiyama, whose Four Immigrants Manga was the first graphic novel published in the U. S .; Sargent Claude Johnson, one of the first African-American artists from California to achieve a national reputation ; Louise Dahl-Wolfe, an innovative photographer whose work for Harper ’ s Bazaar in the 1930s defined a new American style of “ environmental ” fashion photography ; John Gutzon Borglum, the creator of the large-scale public sculpture known as Mt.

It is named after the nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, and originally stored the university's collection of documents and memorabilia associated with her, although this is now stored in the Hallward Library and the Florence Nightingale Museum in Southwark, London.

He was Hamilton's first Mayor, and a prominent State Representative associated with the canals, archaeologist who supplied a considerable number of sketches of earthworks for early texts on the Mississippi Valley, Ohio's leading pioneer author and antiquarian, Miami University Secretary and President of the Board of Trustees, Butler County's fifth Sheriff, a surveyor, and an officer of other various entities.

Julius Blank ( June 2, 1925 – September 17, 2011 ) was a semiconductor pioneer and a member of the so-called " traitorous eight " associated with Nobel-winning physicist William Shockley.

As for the Foreign policy, Suhrawardy was also the first Prime minister to have visit the China, strengthening the Sino-Pak relations and was one of the pioneer of foreign policy to enhance the pro-United States-Pakistan's long associated ties, due to his common distrust of communism.

Jean Houston, a disciple of Campbell and Mead ( and in the direct lineage of Jung ), was a modern pioneer of engaging thoughtform in what she termed the ' imaginal realm ', and in the associated discipline of aspecting or ' carrying ' deity, dæmon or other somesuch ( Houston, 1996 ).

The term was first used in music in Steppenwolf's " Born to be Wild " ( 1967 ) and began to be associated with pioneer bands like Boston's Blue Cheer and Michigan's Grand Funk Railroad.

Prithviraj Kapoor ( Hindi: प ृ थ ् व ी र ा ज कप ू र, Pṛithvīrāj Kapūr ), 3 November 1901 – 29 May 1972 ) was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in 1942.

Other important early contributors to the field include Hermann Ebbinghaus ( a pioneer in the study of memory ), William James ( the American father of pragmatism ), and Ivan Pavlov ( who developed the procedures associated with classical conditioning ).

* Xavier Herbert-although not formally associated with the movement, his Capricornia of 1938, describes the early pioneer movement in the contemporary Northern Territory, Australian values, and white settler relationships positive and negative with the natives, as well as the native culture itself.

She was acknowledged as a suffrage pioneer when Australian women attained the vote and the associated right to stand for federal parliament in June 1902 ( a world first ) and when Victoria belatedly followed suit in December 1908.

Unlike the three more senior professional development awards in the Civil Air Patrol senior program, this award is not named after an aviation pioneer or notable person associated with the CAP.

Naked Prey's aggressive, distorted sound was characterized as " rough-edged country rock " and " folk-distorto-rock " and the band was credited with helping to pioneer the guitar-heavy " Desert Rock " sound associated with Tucson in the 1980s and 1990s.