Более всего известен своим подтверждением индивидуалистской
концепции
экологической
сукцессии
— последовательной смены во времени одних
видов
растительности другими на каком-либо участке земной поверхности (
англ.
integrity of the association concept
,
1926
).
Критик
. Представления Глизона, наряду с представлениями
Л. Г. Раменского
, составили основу современной
парадигмы
о
растительного покрова.
англ.
Gleason, Henry A. Some Unsolved Problems of the Prairies. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 1909, 36(5): 265-271
англ.
Gleason, Henry A. An Isolated Prairie Grove and Its Phytogeographical Significance. // Botanical Gazette. 1912, 53(1): 38-49
англ.
Gleason, Henry A. and Frank C. Gates. A Comparison of the Rates of Evaporation in Certain Associations in Central Illinois. // Botanical Gazette. 1912, 53(6): 478-491
англ.
Gleason, Henry Allan. Studies on the West Indian Vernonicae, New York, 1913
англ.
Gleason, Henry A. The Structure and Development of the Plant Association. // Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 1917, 43: 463-481
англ.
Gleason Henry A. On the Relation between Species and Area // Ecology. 1922. 3(2): 158-162
англ.
Gleason, Henry A. The Vegetational History of the Middle West. //Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 1922, 12: 39-85
англ.
Gleason Henry A. Species and Area // Ecology. 1925. 6(1): 66-74
англ.
Gleason Henry A. The individualistic Concept of the Plant Association // Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 1926. 53: 7-26
англ.
Gleason, Henry A. Further Views on the Succession-Concept. // Ecology. 1927, 8(3): 299-326
англ.
Gleason, Henry A.. Is Sunusia an Association? // Ecology. 1936, 17(3): 444-451
англ.
Gleason H.A. The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association // American Midland Naturalist. 1939. 21(1): 92-110
англ.
Gleason, Henry A. Delving into the History of American Ecology. // Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 1975. 56(4): 7-10
Литература
англ.
Barbour, Michael G. Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties. in William Cronon, editor. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996
англ.
McIntosh, Robert P.. H. A. Gleason – «Individualistic Ecologist». 1882-1975: His Contributions to Ecological Theory. // Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 1975, 102(5): 253-273
англ.
Mitman, Gregg. Defining the Organism in the Welfare State: The Politics of Individuality in American Culture, 1890-1950. in Sabine Maasen, Everett Mendelsohn and Peter Weingart, editors. Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. 1995
англ.
Nicolson, Malcolm and Robert P. McIntosh. H.A. Gleason and the Individualistic Hypothesis Revisited. // Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 2002, 83: 133-142
англ.
Tobey, Ronald C. Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1981
(
ISBN 0-520-04352-9
)
англ.
Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, 2nd ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994