10 Facts About Carl Troll

Carl Troll, was a German geographer, brother of botanist Wilhelm Troll.

From 1919 until 1922 Troll studied biology, chemistry, geology, geography and physics at the Universitat in Munchen.

Carl Troll was engaged in research in the ecology and geography of mountainous lands: between 1926 and 1929 went on a research journey throughout South American Andean countries where he visited northern Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama.

In 1933 and 1934 his research interests took him to East and South Africa; in 1937 Carl Troll was in Ethiopia; and in 1954 he visited Mexico.

Carl Troll, who utilised aerial photographs in his research, coined the term Landscape ecology in 1939.

Carl Troll developed this terminology and many early concepts of landscape ecology and of high mountain ecology and geography as part of his early work applying aerial photographs interpretation to studies of interactions between environment and vegetation and from his research travels in the mountainous regions of Asia, Africa and South America, as well as his native Europe.

Carl Troll developed seasonal climatic charts and three-dimensional climatic classification from hydrological, biological and economical data.

Carl Troll was president of the International Geographical Union from 1960 to 1964.

Carl Troll argued that the development of the Inca state in the central Andes was aided by conditions that allows for the elaboration of the staple food chuno.

Carl Troll did argue that llamas, the Inca's pack animal, can be found in its largest numbers in this very same region.