Robert J. Whittaker
Robert James Whittaker is a British ecologist and professor of biogeography at the School of Geography and the Environment of Oxford University .
Live and act
In 1980 he did his B.Sc. at the University of Hull , 1982 M.Sc. at the University College of North Wales and finally received his doctorate in 1985 from University College Cardiff , later Cardiff University . His dissertation was entitled Plant community and plant population studies of a successional sequence: Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway .
Whittaker co-founded the International Biogeographic Society and was its president from 2009 to 2010. Since 2004 he has been editor of the Journal of Biogeography .
Publications
Books:
- RJ Ladle & RJ Whittaker (2011): Conservation Biogeography . Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-4443-3503-3 .
- RJ Whittaker & JM Fernández-Palacios (2007): Island Biogeography: ecology, evolution, and conservation . 2nd edition. Oxford University Press , Oxford, 412 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-856612-0 .
Web links
- Professor Robert J. Whittaker at Oxford University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Whittaker, Robert J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Whittaker, Robert James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English ecologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |