James Brown (ecologist)

James Brown (ecologist)

Infobox Scientist
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field = Ecology
work_institutions = University of New Mexico
alma_mater = Cornell University University of Michigan
doctoral_advisor = Emmet T. Hooper
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James Hemphill Brown, an ecologist, is 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.

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)

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.cite book | author=Resetarits, William and Bernardo, Joseph | title= | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=1998 | isbn=0195150422]

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.

ee also

*Metabolic theory of ecology

References

External links

* [http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown Home Page]


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