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	Haeckel 1866	Chatton 1925	Copeland 1938^[1]	Whittaker 1969^[2]	Woese e.a. 1990^[3]	Cavalier-Smith 1998^[4]
2 rijken	3 rijken	2 rijken	4 rijken	5 rijken	3 domeinen	6/7 rijken
(niet behandeld)	Protista	Prokaryota	Monera	Monera	Bacteria	Bacteria
		Prokaryota	Monera	Monera	Archaea	Archaea
		Eukaryota	Protoctista	Protista	Eucarya	"Protozoa"
			Protoctista	Protista		"Chromista"
Vegetabilia	Plantae		Plantae	Plantae		Plantae
Vegetabilia	Plantae		Plantae	Fungi		Fungi
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

↑ (en) Copeland H. (1938). The kingdoms of organisms. Quarterly Review of Biology 13 (4): 383–420. DOI: 10.1086/394568.
↑ (en) Whittaker RH. (1969). New concepts of kingdoms of organisms. Science 163 (3863): 150–60. DOI: 10.1126/science.163.3863.150.
↑ (en) Woese C, Kandler O, Wheelis M. (1990). Towards a natural system of organisms:proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. PNAS 87 (12): 4576–9. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576.
↑ (en) Cavalier-Smith T. (1998). A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biological Reviews 73 (3): 203–66. PMID 9809012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1998.tb00030.x.