Adolphe Dureau de la Malle


Adolphe Jules César Auguste Dureau de la Malle was a French geographer, naturalist, historian and artist. He was the son of the scholar and translator Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle.
Dureau de la Malle published a number of works on the economy and topography of the classic countries, i.e. Italy and Carthage at the time of the Roman Empire:
As a naturalist, he published on the origins of the cereal crops.
and, his most significant work, on vegetation succession.
Here he present results of his observations in clear-cut forests. He was the first to use the term succession about an ecological phenomenon and probably the first to use the term community for an assemblage of individuals of different species.