Henry S. Horn Explained

Henry S. Horn (November 12, 1941 – March 14, 2019)^[1] was a natural historian and ecologist. He was an emeritus professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Princeton University. He worked on a wide variety of topics including the following:

• the geometrical structure of forests^[2]
• patterns of forest succession^[3]
• wind dispersal of seeds^[4]
• spatial patterns of competition^[5]
• social behavior of butterflies

Education

He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1962 and his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington in 1966. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis about the adaptive nature of the social behavior of blackbirds.

He was one of several scientists to have proposed the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.^[6]

Books

Horn, H.S. (1971) The Adaptive Geometry of Trees Princeton University Press.

External links

• Faculty Profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ecologist Henry Horn, founding director of Program in Environmental Studies, dies at 77 . Princeton University . en . 2019-03-19.
2. MacArthur. R.H. . Horn . H.S. . Robert MacArthur . 1969 . Foliage profiles by vertical measurements . Ecology . 50 . 5 . 802–804 . 1933693 . 10.2307/1933693.
3. H.S.Horn . 1975 . Forest Succession . Scientific American . 232 . 5 . 90–98 . 10.1038/scientificamerican0575-90. 1975SciAm.232e..90H .
4. R. Nathan . G.G. Katul . H.S. Horn . S.M. Thomas . R. Orem . R. Avissar . S.W. Pacala . S.A. Levin . 2002 . Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind . Nature . 418 . 409–413 . 10.1038/nature00844 . 6896. 12140556 . 2002Natur.418..409N . 4318881 .
5. H.S. Horn . R.H. MacArthur . 1972 . Competition among fugitive species in a harlequin environment . Ecology . 53 . 4 . 749–752 . 1934797 . 10.2307/1934797.
6. Book: Horn, H.S. . 1975 . Markovian properties of forest succession . 196–211 . Cody, M.L. . Diamond, J. M. . Ecology and evolution of communities . Belknap Press, Massachusetts, USA . 978-0-674-22444-5 . registration . https://archive.org/details/ecologyevolution00gres .