# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-ernest-shelford
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:02:01.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-ernest-shelford"
name: "Victor Ernest Shelford"
slug: "victor-ernest-shelford"
description: "Victor Ernest Shelford was an American zoologist and animal ecologist who helped to establish ecology as a distinct field of study. He was the first president of the Ecological Society of America in 1915, and helped found the Nature Conservancy in the 1940s. Shelford's early visits to and study of Volo Bog in Northern Illinois helped establish its ecological significance. Volo Bog became the first purchase of the Illinois Nature Conservancy."
tagline: "American zoologist and ecologist (1877–1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shelford-young.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1877-09-22"
deathDate: "1968-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump