Robert Harding Whittaker
Robert Harding Whittaker (Wichita, 27 december 1920 - 20 oktober 1980) was een Amerikaans ecoloog en taxonoom die vooral bekendheid kreeg door zijn indeling van organismen in vijf rijken: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista en Monera.
| Linnaeus (1735) 2 rijken |
Haeckel (1866) 3 rijken |
Chatton (1937) 2 domeinen |
Copeland (1956) 4 rijken |
Whittaker (1969) 5 rijken |
Woese e.a. (1977) 6 rijken |
Woese e.a. (1990) 3 domeinen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (niet behandeld) | Protista | Prokaryota | Monera | Monera | Eubacteria | Bacteria |
| Archaebacteria | Archaea | |||||
| Eukaryota | Protoctista | Protista | Protista | Eukaryota | ||
| Vegetabilia | Plantae | Fungi | Fungi | |||
| Plantae | Plantae | Plantae | ||||
| Animalia | Animalia | Animalia | Animalia | Animalia |
Referenties
- Robert H. Whittaker Communities and Ecosystems, Macmillan, 1975. ISBN 0024273902
- Robert H. Whittaker (Ed), Classification of Plant Communities, 1978 (Handbook of Vegetation Science), Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 9061935660
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