Carl F. Jordan Explained

Carl F. Jordan
Alma Mater:Rutgers University

Carl F. Jordan is Professor Emeritus, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia.[1] [2]

Education

Jordan graduated with a B.Sc. from the University of Michigan in 1958. From 1958 to 1962 he served in the U.S. Navy as a Combat Information Center Officer. In 1962, he enrolled in graduate school at Rutgers University and received his M.Sc. in Plant Ecology in 1964. He acquired his Ph.D. in 1966.

Career

Jordan joined Howard Odum in an Atomic Energy Commission project in Puerto Rico in 1966 and applied the cycling concept to the dynamics of radioactive isotopes in the rain forest, for which he was awarded the Ecological Society of America’s Mercer award. In 1969, Jordan moved to Argonne National Laboratory where he continued to study radioactive pollution from nuclear power plants around Lake Michigan. In 1974, he led a project for the University of Georgia near San Carlos de Río Negro in the Amazon Region of Venezuela. During this time he focused on determining how forests of the Amazon survived on the nutrient-poor soils and could even flourish and support shifting cultivation. His research showed that nutrients from decaying organic matter on the forest floor recycled directly back into the roots of living trees. As long as the cycle was intact, the forest flourished, but destruction by agriculture or grazing cut the cycle and destroyed productive capacity.

In 1980, he returned to the University of Georgia. He began taking graduate students, while continuing his research in San Carlos, and expanding it to Brazil, Ecuador, and Thailand. Most notable projects were studies in Brazil of the Jari Plantation in Brazil, a pulp plantation of hundreds of square miles, and rehabilitation of the forests around the Carajas mines in central Amazonia. The primary concentration in all these studies was the importance of preserving the soil organic matter to keep the nutrient cycle intact and functioning.

In 1993, Jordan acquired a farm near Athens Georgia that had once been part of a pre-Civil cotton plantation and began research on more sustainable ways to manage organic agriculture. He originated the first University course in Georgia on organic farming, and opened the farm to tours and classes interested in sustainable agriculture. By 2017, more than 20,000 students had toured the farm. Jordan retired as Professor Emeritus in 2009.

Bibliography- Books

  1. Book: Jordan, C.F.. Benchmark Papers in Tropical Ecology.. 1981. Hutchinson Ross Pub. Co.. Jordan, Carl F.. 978-0879333980. Stroudsburg, Pa.. 7553921. registration.
  2. Book: Jordan, C.F.. Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Forest Ecosystems.. 1985. Wiley. 0-471-90449-X. Chichester. 48135421.
  3. Book: Jordan, C.F.. Amazon Rain Forests: Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery. 1987. Springer-Verlag. 0-387-96397-9. New York. 14166840.
  4. Book: Jordan, C.F.. An Amazonian Rain Forest. The Structure of Function of a Stressed Ecosystem and the Impact of Slash and Burn Agriculture. Man and the Biosphere Series, Volume 2. UNESCO. 1989. 9780940813823. Paris, France. 19589904.
  5. Book: Jordan, C.F.. Taungya : forest plantations with agriculture in Southeast Asia. C.A.B. International. 1992. 978-0851988016. Wallingford, Oxon, UK. 27728371.
  6. Jordan, C.F. (1995)  Conservation: Replacing Quantity with Quality as a Goal for Global Management. (Textbook). Wiley, N.Y.
  7. Book: Jordan, C. F.. Working with nature : resource management for sustainability. Harwood Academic Publishers. 1998. 90-5702-542-6. Amsterdam. 40341824.
  8. Book: Castellanet, Christian. Participatory action research in natural resource management : a critique of the method based on five years' experience in the Transamazônica Region of Brazil. 2002. Taylor & Francis. Carl F. Jordan editor. 0-203-50856-4. UK. 252930016.
  9. Montagnini F. and C.F. Jordan. (2005) Tropical Forest Ecology: The Basis for Management and Conservation.  Springer Verlag, Berlin
  10. Jordan, C. F. (2013).  An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture: Energy Use Efficiency in the American South.  Springer Verlag. Heidelberg
  11. Book: Jordan, C. F.. Evolution from a Thermodynamic Perspective. 2021. Springer Nature. 978-3-030-85185-9. 1260664569. Switzerland.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Jordan. Carl F.. A Simple, Tension-Free Lysimeter. 1968. Soil Science. 105. 2. 81–86. 10.1097/00010694-196802000-00003. 1968SoilS.105...81J. 95561901. 0038-075X.
  2. Kline. J. R.. Jordan. C. F.. 1968-05-03. Tritium Movement in Soil of Tropical Rain Forest. Science. 160. 3827. 550–551. 10.1126/science.160.3827.550. 5644064. 1968Sci...160..550K. 42112484. 0036-8075.
  3. Jordan. Carl F.. 1969-07-01. Derivation of Leaf-Area Index from Quality of Light on the Forest Floor. Ecology. en. 50. 4. 663–666. 10.2307/1936256. 1939-9170. 1936256.
  4. Jordan. C. F.. Koranda. J. J.. Kline. J. R.. Martin. J. R.. 1970-07-15. Tritium Movement in a Tropical Ecosystem. BioScience. 20. 14. 807–812. 10.2307/1295095. 1295095. 0006-3568.
  5. Jordan. Carl F.. 1971. Productivity of a Tropical Forest and its Relation to a World Pattern of Energy Storage. 2258457. Journal of Ecology. 59. 1. 127–142. 10.2307/2258457.
  6. Jordan. Carl F.. 1971. A World Pattern in Plant Energetics: Studies of the productive potential of natural ecosystems yield insight into how plants use solar energy and how world patterns of energy use could have evolved. American Scientist. 59. 4. 425–433. 27829697. 0003-0996.
  7. Jordan. Carl F.. Kline. Jerry R.. Sasscer. Donald S.. 1972. Relative Stability of Mineral Cycles in Forest Ecosystems. The American Naturalist. en. 106. 948. 237–253. 10.1086/282764. 83741372. 0003-0147.
  8. Jordan. Carl F.. Kline. Jerry R.. 1976. Strontium-90 in a Tropical Rain Forest: 12th-yr Validation of a 32-yr Prediction. Health Physics. en. 30. 2. 199–201. 10.1097/00004032-197602000-00007. 1245419. 0017-9078.
  9. Jordan. Carl F.. Kline. Jerry R.. 1977. Transpiration of Trees in a Tropical Rainforest. 2402816. Journal of Applied Ecology. 14. 3. 853–860. 10.2307/2402816.
  10. Jordan. Carl F.. Murphy. Peter G.. 1978. A Latitudinal Gradient of Wood and Litter Production, and Its Implication Regarding Competition and Species Diversity in Trees. American Midland Naturalist. 99. 2. 415. 10.2307/2424817. 2424817.
  11. Stark. Nellie M.. Jordan. Carl F.. 1978. Nutrient Retention by the Root Mat of an Amazonian Rain Forest. 1936571. Ecology. 59. 3. 434–437. 10.2307/1936571.
  12. Herrera. R.. Merida. Tatiana. Stark. Nellie. Jordan. C. F.. 1978. Direct phosphorus transfer from leaf litter to roots. Naturwissenschaften. 65. 4. 208–209. 10.1007/bf00450594. 1978NW.....65..208H. 28084273. 0028-1042.
  13. Jordan. Carl F.. Escalante. Gladys. 1980-02-01. Root Productivity in an Amazonian Rain Forest. Ecology. en. 61. 1. 14–18. 10.2307/1937148. 1939-9170. 1937148.
  14. 4312652. How Human Activities Disturb the Nutrient Cycles of a Tropical Rainforest in Amazonia. Ambio. 10. 2/3. 109–114. Herrera. Rafael. Jordan. Carl F. Medina. Ernesto. Klinge. Hans. 1981.
  15. Jordan. C.. Caskey. W.. Escalante. G.. Herrera. R.. Montagnini. F.. Todd. R.. Uhl. C.. 1982. The nitrogen cycle in a 'Terra Firme' rainforest on oxisol in the Amazon territory of Venezuela / Ciclo de nitrógeno de un bosque pluvial de Tierra Firme sobre oxisol en el Territorio Amazonas de Venezuela. Plant and Soil. 67. 1/3. 325–332. 10.1007/BF02182779. 42934047. 22490722. 0032-079X.
  16. Jordan. Carl F.. Herrera. Rafael. 1981. Tropical Rain Forests: Are Nutrients Really Critical?. 2460498. The American Naturalist. 117. 2. 167–180. 10.1086/283696. 85215702.
  17. Jordan. Carl F.. 1982. Amazon Rain Forests: Although similar in structure to forests in other regions, Amazon rain forests function very differently, with important implications for forest management. 27851547. American Scientist. 70. 4. 394–401.
  18. Jordan. Carl F.. 1982-06-01. The Nutrient Balance of an Amazonian Rain Forest. Ecology. en. 63. 3. 647–654. 10.2307/1936784. 1939-9170. 1936784.
  19. Smathers. Webb M.. Jordan. Carl F.. Farnworth. Edward G.. Tidrick. Thomas H.. 1983. An Economic Production-Function Approach to Ecosystem Management. 1309493. BioScience. 33. 10. 642–646. 10.2307/1309493.
  20. Uhl. Christopher. Jordan. Carl F.. 1984. Succession and Nutrient Dynamics Following Forest Cutting and Burning in Amazonia. Ecology. en. 65. 5. 1476–1490. 10.2307/1939128. 1939128.
  21. Book: Jordan, C.F.. Ecological knowledge and environmental problem-solving : concepts and case studies. 1986. National Academy Press. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Applications of Ecological Theory to Environmental Problems.. 978-0309036450. Washington, DC. 42328934. registration. 345–357.
  22. Book: Jordan, C.F.. Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem-Solving: Concepts and Case Studies. Ecological Effects of Nuclear Radiation. 1986. National Academy Press. 978-0309036450. Washington, DC. 42328934. registration. 331–344.
  23. Book: Scientific uncertainty and environmental problem solving. Scientific Uncertainty as a Constraint to Environmental Problem-Solving: Large Scale Ecosystems. . 1996. Blackwell Science. Lemons, John.. Jordan. C.F.. Miller. C.. 978-0865424760. Cambridge, Mass.. 32968916. 91–117.
  24. Jordan. Carl F.. 2002. Genetic Engineering, the Farm Crisis, and World Hunger. BioScience. en. 52. 6. 523–529. 10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0523:GETFCA]2.0.CO;2. 0006-3568. free.
    1. Carrillo. Yolima. Ball. Becky A.. Bradford. Mark A.. Jordan. Carl F.. Molina. Marirosa. 2011. Soil fauna alter the effects of litter composition on nitrogen cycling in a mineral soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 43. 7. 1440–1449. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.03.011. 0038-0717.
  25. Carrillo. Yolima. Jordan. Carl F.. Jacobsen. Krista L.. Mitchell. Kathryn G.. Raber. Patrick. 2011-03-16. Shoot pruning of a hedgerow perennial legume alters the availability and temporal dynamics of root-derived nitrogen in a subtropical setting. Plant and Soil. 345. 1–2. 59–68. 10.1007/s11104-011-0760-8. 24722537. 0032-079X.
  26. Jordan. Carl F.. 2016-12-01. The Farm as a Thermodynamic System: Implications of the Maximum Power Principle. BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality. en. 1. 2. 9. 10.1007/s41247-016-0010-z. 2366-0112. free.
  27. Jordan. Carl F.. 2019. Energy Flow and Feedback Control in Ecological and Economic Food Systems. Ecological Economics. 156. 91–97. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.09.015. 158460618. 0921-8009.

Courses Taught at the School of Ecology, University of Georgia

Membership in Professional & Environmental Organizations

Selected Awards and Recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: University of Georgia: School of Ecology. www.ecology.uga.edu. 2017-10-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043510/http://www.ecology.uga.edu/facultyMember.php?Jordan-28%2F. 2017-12-01. dead.
  2. News: UGA's Carl F. Jordan to discuss new book on sustainable agriculture. 2017-10-11. en.
  3. 1964. SIGMA XI-RESA GRANTS-IN-AID OF RESEARCH: Report of the Awards made by the Grants-in-Aid of Research Committee for 1964. 27839066. American Scientist. 52. 3. 250A–265A.
  4. 1973. Mercer Award for 1973. 20165967. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 54. 4. 8. 10.2307/20165967 . 252268351 .
  5. Web site: Carl Jordan. encore.org. en-US.
  6. Web site: Carl Jordan and Spring Valley EcoFarms receive conservation award. University of Georgia: School of Ecology. 2017-10-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20161108064722/http://www.ecology.uga.edu/newsItem.php?Carl_Jordan_and_Spring_Valley_EcoFarms_receive_conservation_award-152%2F. 2016-11-08. dead.

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