Residence United States Role Biologist Citizenship American Influenced by Robert MacArthur | Doctoral advisor Emmet T. Hooper Fields Ecology Name James Brown | |
Born September 25, 1942 (age 81)
United States ( 1942-09-25 ) Institutions University of New Mexico Alma mater Cornell University
University of Michigan Known for Macroecology
Metabolic theory of ecology Education University of Michigan (1967), Cornell University (1963) Books Biogeography, Macroecology Awards Robert H. MacArthur Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada People also search for Mark V. Lomolino, R. M. Sibly, Nigel Webb, Kevin J. Gaston, Ian Thornton |
Dr james brown tribute to george bartholomew reflections on human ecology
James Hemphill Brown (born 1942) is an American biologist and academic.
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- Dr james brown tribute to george bartholomew reflections on human ecology
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He is an ecologist, and as of 2001 a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico. His work has focused on 3 distinct aspects of ecology: 1) the population and community ecology of rodents and harvester ants in the Chihuahuan Desert, 2) 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. and 3) the Metabolic Theory of Ecology. In 2005 he was awarded the Robert H. MacArthur Award by the Ecological Society of America for his work, including his work toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Between 1969 and 2011 he was awarded over $18.4 million in grants for his research.
Education
Brown received a bachelors with honors in 1963 before obtaining his PhD in 1967:
Honors
Honors James Brown has received include:
Trained graduate students and post-docs
John F. Addicott, Andrew P. Allen, Susan Anderson, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Ford Ballantyne, Alison Boyer, Michael Bowers, Gregory S. Byers, Jason Bragg, Jean-Luc Cartron, Gerardo Ceballos, Charles G. Curtin, Michael Cyr, Diane Davidson, Brian J. Enquist, Kristine Ernest, S.K. Morgan Ernest, Katrin Bohning-Gaese, William Gannon, Laura Gonalez-Guzman, Thomas Gibson, James Gillooly, Deborah Goldberg, Jacob Goheen, Qinfeng Guo, Alan Harvey, Lauraine Hawkins, Robert Holmes, Richard Inouye, Dawn M. Kaufman, Douglas Kelt, S.Kathleen Lyons, Katrina Mangin, Pablo Marquet, Brian Maurer, David Mehlman, Shahroukh Mistry, Jordan Okie Jennifer Parody, Colleen Kelly, Jim Reichman, Kevin Rich, Michael Rourke, Dov Sax, Andrew Smith, Felisa Smith, Ursula Shepherd, Marian Skupski, Steven Sutherland, Robert Taylor, Katherine Thibault, Daniel Thompson, Hira Walker, Ethan P. White, Thomas Whitham, David Wright, Wenyun Zuo
Portal
In 1977 Brown, in collaboration with Diane Davidson and James Reichman, started a research project in the Chihuahuan Desert near Portal, Arizona to study competition between rodents and ants and their influence on the annual plant community.