Miklos Udvardy

Miklos Dezso Ferenc Udvardy
Born(1919-03-23)23 March 1919
Debrecen, Hungarian Soviet Republic
Died27 January 1998(1998-01-27) (aged 78)
Sacramento, California, United States
Scientific career
FieldsBiology, biogeography, and ornithology

Miklos Dezso Ferenc Udvardy (March 23, 1919 – January 27, 1998) was a Hungarian-born Canadian biologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. He made significant contributions to various fields, including biogeography, evolutionary biology, ornithology, and vegetation classification. Udvardy published 191 papers and books including an influential text on zoogeography.

Early life and career

He began his career as a research biologist at the Tihanyi Biological Station, located on Lake Balaton in western Hungary.[1]

Selected publications

  • Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN, [1].
  • Udvardy, Miklos D. F. (1975) "World Biogeographical Provinces" (Map). The CoEvolution Quarterly, Sausalito, California.

References

  1. ^ Csuti, Blair; Brittan, Martin R. (1999). "In Memoriam: Mikos D. F. Udvardy, 1919-1998" (PDF). The Auk. 116 (1). doi:10.2307/4089468. JSTOR 4089468.