Leslie Ransselaer Holdridge (September 29, 1907 – June 19, 1999) was an American botany and climatology.
Career
Holdridge studied and worked at the University of Maine including as a Graduate Fellow in Botany.
Holdridge participated in the Cinchona Missions, a United States effort to search for natural sources of quinine during World War II.
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Mean annual biotemperature (average temperature, after data values below 0 °C or above 30 °C have been eliminated)
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Total annual precipitation
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The ratio of mean annual potential evapotranspiration to mean total annual precipitation.
In 1954, Holdridge established the La Selva Biological Station for botanical experiments for the purpose of natural resource management.
Personal life
He was the father of composer
Lee Holdridge as well as the father of Leslie A. Holdridge, Lorena Holdridge, Marbella Holdridge, Marly Holdridge, Marisela Holdridge, Thania Holdridge, John Holdridge, Ida Holdridge, Reuseland Holdridge, Leythy J. Holdridge and youngest son Gregory Holdridge whom he fathered with Costa Rican Clara Luz Melendez.
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