Allan D. McDevitt Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who studied the spread of the greater white-toothed shrew in Ireland and its relationship to changes in the distribution of a native shrew.[ref]
Andy Hector Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Brendan Choat Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who studied vulnerability of forest xylem to drought, connecting hydraulic function to environmental stress.[ref]
Chas A. Holt Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated how deer browsing changes habitat suitability for breeding common nightingales, using paired exclusion and browsed plots.[ref]
C. S. Holling Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated the dependence of predation on prey abundance, using search and handling arguments to explain a saturating functional response.[ref]
Daniel M. Tompkins Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated disease associated with red squirrel declines, comparing experimental susceptibility in red and grey squirrels.[ref]
David Tilman Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem stability through long-term grassland experiments.[ref]
Digger B. Jackson Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who tested effects of introduced hedgehog removal on breeding waders, comparing nest success in removal and control plots.[ref]
Emma Sheehy Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who studied changes in grey squirrel distribution associated with recovery of the native pine marten in Ireland.[ref]
Felisa Smith Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Ian J. Wright Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who studied coordinated variation in leaf structure and function, contributing to the leaf economics spectrum.[ref]
L. M. Gosling Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated species eradication, comparing the campaigns against introduced muskrats and coypus in Britain.[ref]
Michel Loreau Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated how biodiversity changes ecosystem function, including a quantitative partition into selection and complementarity components.[ref]
Mingkai Jiang Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated the fate of additional carbon taken up by a mature forest during free-air carbon dioxide enrichment, separating uptake from net storage.[ref]
Richard A. Betts Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated how changes in surface albedo can offset some climatic effects of boreal forest carbon storage.[ref]
Richard J. Norby Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who studied how limited nitrogen availability constrains the response of forest productivity to increased carbon dioxide.[ref]
An ecologist whose work connected the logistic map and other simple mathematical models to population dynamics.[ref]
Figure 1.
Robert M. May lecturing at Harvard in 2009
. Photograph by NBeale, cropped by Ravenpuff. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Rosalind Bryce Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An ecologist who investigated coordinated monitoring and control of invasive American mink, linking management at landscape scale to biological invasion.[ref]
Sandra Díaz Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05