James Brown (ecologist)
| James Hemphill Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 25, 1942 U.S. |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Ecology |
| Institutions | University of New Mexico |
| Alma mater | Cornell University University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Emmet T. Hooper |
| Influences | Robert H. MacArthur |
James Hemphill Brown (born 1942), is an American biologist and academic.
He is an ecologist, and as of 2004[update] a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico. His work has focused on two distinct aspects of ecology: the population and community ecology of rodents and harvester ants in the Chihuahuan Desert and large-scale questions relating to the distribution of body size, abundance and geographic range of animals, leading to the development of the field of macroecology, a term that was coined in a paper Brown co-authored with Brian Maurer of Michigan State University.
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[edit] Education and honors
- Bachelor of Arts, Zoology, 1963, Cornell University
- Ph.D., Zoology, 1967, University of Michigan
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1988
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Robert H. MacArthur Award (Ecological Society of America)
[edit] Portal
In 1977 Brown, in collaboration with Diane Davidson and James Reichman, started a research project in the Chihuahuan desert near Portal, AZ to study competition between rodents and ants and their influence on the annual plant community.[1]
[edit] Publications
- Brown, J.H. and A.C. Gibson. 1983. Biogeography. Mosby, St. Louis, MO.
- Real, L., and J. H. Brown, eds. 1991. Foundations of Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- Genoways, H.H., and J.H. Brown, eds. 1993. Biology of the Heteromyidae. Special Publication No. 10, American Society of Mammalogists.
- Brown, J.H. 1995. Macroecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- Brown, J.H. and M.V. Lomolino. 1998. Biogeography (2nd edition). Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
- Brown, J.H., and G.B. West, eds. 2000. Scaling in Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Lomolino, M.V., D.F. Sax, and J.H. Brown, eds. 2004. Foundations of Biogeography. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- Lomolino, M.V., B.R. Riddle, and J.H. Brown. 2005. Biogeography (3rd edition). Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Resetarits, William and Bernardo, Joseph (1998). Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195150422.
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