Thomas Park

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Thomas Park (born November 17, 1908 in Danville (Illinois) , † March 30, 1992 in Chicago ) was an American ecologist and zoologist.

Life

Park received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1932 at Warder Clyde Allee . As a post-doctoral student , he was on a grant from the National Research Council at Johns Hopkins University with Raymond Pearl , where he taught from 1935. In 1937 he became a professor at the University of Chicago.

He was a pioneer in animal ecology in the United States, introducing quantitative and experimental methods. For this purpose he used the study of the population dynamics of meal beetles (of the two species Tribolium confusum , Triboleum castaneum ). He studied the effect of overpopulation in mixed populations of the two species and found that one species eventually gained the upper hand and the other died out. Overpopulation led to a decrease in the birth rate of the less adapted species, an increase in malformations, disease and death rate.

In 1946 he introduced the term population ecology into literature.

In 1961 he was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1971 he received the Eminent Ecologist award from the Ecological Society of America (ESA), of which he was President in 1959.

1940 to 1950 he was editor of Ecology .

His brother Orlando Park (1901-1969) was also an ecologist and professor at Northwestern University.

Fonts

  • Experimental studies of interspecies competition, part 1: competition between populations of flour beetles Trilobium confusum Duval and Trilobium castaneum Herbst, Ecological Monographs, Volume 18, 1948, pp. 265-307, Part 2 (Temperature, humidity and competition of two species of Tribolium ), Physiological Zoology, Volume 27, 1954, pp. 177-238
  • with Jerzy Neyman , Elizabeth Scott : Struggle for existence: the Tribolium model, Biological and Statistical Aspects, Proc. 3. Berkeley Symp. Math. Statistics and Probability, University of California Press 1956, Volume 4, pp. 41-79, online
  • with WC Allee, AE Emerson, Orlando Park, KP Schmidt: Principles of Animal Ecology, Philadelphia: Saunders 1949, Archives

literature

  • Frank Egerton: A centennial history of the Ecological Society of America, CRC Press 2015, p. 78f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His teacher Allee, on the other hand, emphasized the advantages of cooperation (see Allee effect )
personal data
SURNAME Park, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American zoologist and animal ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Danville (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1992
Place of death Chicago