Ralph Works Chaney (August 24, 1890 – March 3, 1971) was an American paleobotanist. Chaney was the first paleobotanist to develop in detail the use of morphological characters of fossil leaves to deduce ecological information of the given era. He was also the first to use quantitative study of fossil floras in an attempt to arrive at a precise estimate of species dominance in vegetation, understanding that species in a given ecosystem evolve cooperatively. (From Wikipedia)
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Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: The Goshen Flora of West Central Oregon (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #439; 1933), also by Ethel I. Sanborn (multiple formats at Google)- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971, ed.: Pliocene Floras of California and Oregon (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #553; 1944) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971, contrib.: Studies of the Pleistocene Palaeobotany of California (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #415; 1934), also contrib. by H. L. Mason and Susan S. Potbury (page images at HathiTrust)
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Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: Additions to the palaeontology of the Pacific coast and Great Basin regions of North America (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1927), also by Remington Kellogg, H. L. Mason, Chester Stock, and John C. Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: Environment and life in the Great plains (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1937), also by Frederic E. Clements (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: The flora of the Eagle Creek formation (University of Chicago Press, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: Great Plains, Environment and life in the (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1936), also by Frederic E. Clements (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: Miocene and Pliocene floras of western North America. (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1938), also by Carnegie Institution of Washington, Curtis Julian Hesse, Carlton Condit, Daniel I. Axelrod, Erling Dorf, and Maxim K. Elias (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: A Miocene flora from Shantung province, China. : Part I. Introduction and systematic considerations ([publisher not identified], 1940), also by Hsen Hsu Hu (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: Miocene floras of the Columbia Plateau. Part I. Composition and interpretation (Washington, 1959), also by Daniel I. Axelrod (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: Ralph Works Chaney, Ph.D. : paleobotanist, conservationist : transcript, 1959. (1959), also by Edna Tartaul Daniel and Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971: Studies on the fossil flora and fauna of the western United States. (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1925), also by Lee R. Dice and Loye Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
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