Michael B. Usher

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Michael Barham Usher (born November 19, 1941 in Old Colwyn in Wales ) is a British ecologist and professor emeritus. He is the head of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust .

Michael Usher studied forest science at the University of Edinburgh and worked for his PhD at Black Wood near Rannoch, Perthshire . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of York , where he taught ecology. He helped develop the Biological Computation course . His research mainly focused on population ecological issues of insects in soils. In addition, he dealt with various topics of nature conservation .

He was also Scientific Director of Scottish Natural Heritage for more than ten years and is Honorary Professor at universities in Aberdeen , Edinburgh and Stirling . In the Council of Europe he heads a committee for the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Wildlife and Their Natural Habitats ( Bern Convention ).

Publications

  • Wildlife Conservation Evaluation . 1986. ISBN 0-412267500
    • German edition: Recording and evaluating in nature conservation: Problems - Methods - Examples . Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg / Wiesbaden, 1994, ISBN 3-494-02199-6
  • with Robert S. Strichartz: Splines on fractals . 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Usher ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bumblebeeconservation.org
personal data
SURNAME Usher, Michael B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Usher, Michael Barham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ecologist and professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Colwyn