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Carl Linnaeus: Influence on Ecology

Carl Linnaeus, an accomplished Swedish botanist, progressed the development of ecology and was an influential figure to Alexander von Humboldt. In his work Systema Naturae, Linnaeus categorized animals, plants, and minerals introducing the universal naming system – binomial nomenclature – and the system is still used today when classifying species. Now both scholars to laymen had the resources to study and identify various flora and fauna species, and share a common language. Linnaeus’s development of binomial nomenclature laid the united the work of many before him and laid a foundation for the discipline of ecology.