John Terborgh

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John Whittle Terborgh

John Whittle Terborgh (born April 16, 1936 in Washington, DC ) is an American ecologist , conservation biologist , ornithologist and botanist .

Life

In 1958, Terborgh received a Bachelor of Arts. In 1960 he graduated from the Master of Arts and 1963 with the dissertation Studies on the growth and morphogenesis of Acetabularia crenulata at the Harvard University for Ph.D. PhD in plant physiology .

From 1963 to 1965 he was a research fellow at Tyco Laboratories, Inc. From 1965 to 1970 he was an assistant professor in botany at the University of Maryland .

From 1971 to 1978 he was Associate Professor and from 1978 to 1989 he was Professor of Biology at Princeton University . In 1973 Terborgh founded a field station in the Peruvian National Park Manú , where more than 100 scientists have carried out research projects. In 1984 he received a research grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .

Terborgh was James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science and Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University from 1991 to 2006 . He has been retired since 2006. He was actively involved in issues of tropical ecology and nature conservation for 35 years. An expert on bird and mammalian ecology in Neotropical forests, John Whittle Terborgh has published nearly 300 scientific articles and several books on conservation topics, including Where Have All the Birds Gone? Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics in 1989, Diversity and The Tropical Rainforest in 1992, Peru's Amazonian Eden: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve in 1998, and Requiem for Nature in 1999.

In 1977, together with John W. Fitzpatrick and David E. Willard, he was the first to describe the bandy-wing wren ( Henicorhina leucoptera ).

Honors and Dedication Names

In 1987 Terborgh was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1989 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1992 he received the Wildlife Publication Award from The Wildlife Society . In the same year he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship . In 1996 he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences.

James V. Remsen named the Vilcabambabuschammer ( Atlapetes terborghi ) in 1993 in honor of John Terborgh. The highland Bennettschwalm subspecies ( Aegotheles affinis terborghi Diamond , 1967) was also dedicated to him.

literature

  • John W. Terborgh. The Writers Directory, St. James Press, 2017. Biography in Context, Online . Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  • William Stolzenburg: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators. Bloomsbury, 2009. ISBN 978-1-5969-1624-1 (short biography on John Terborgh in the Ecological Meltdown chapter , pp. 84–99)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Vanderbeek Remsen: Zoogeography and geographic variation of Atlapetes rufinucha (Aves: Emberizinae), including a distinctive new subspecies, in southern Peru and Bolivia . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 106 , 1993, pp. 429-435 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  2. ^ Jared Mason Diamond: New subspecies and records of birds from the Karimui Basin, New Guinea . In: American Museum novitates . No. 2284 , 1967, p. 1–17 ( digitallibrary.amnh.org [PDF; 1,3 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Terborgh, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terborgh, John Whittle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conservation biologist, ecologist, ornithologist, and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC