James Brown (ecologist) explained

James Hemphill Brown
Birth Date:	September 25, 1942
Birth Place:	United States
Field:	Ecology
Work Institutions:	University of New Mexico
Alma Mater:	Cornell University University of Michigan
Doctoral Advisor:	Emmet T. Hooper
Known For:	Macroecology Metabolic theory of ecology

James Hemphill Brown (born 1942) is an American biologist and academic.

He is an ecologist, and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico.^[1] His work has focused on 3 distinct aspects of ecology: 1) the population and community ecology of rodents and harvester ants in the Chihuahuan Desert, 2) large-scale questions relating to the distribution of body size, abundance and geographic range of animals, leading to the development of the field of macroecology, a term that was coined in a paper Brown co-authored with Brian Maurer of Michigan State University.^[2] and 3) the Metabolic Theory of Ecology. In 2005 he was awarded the Robert H. MacArthur Award by the Ecological Society of America for his work, including his work toward a metabolic theory of ecology.^[3] Between 1969 and 2011 he was awarded over $18.4 million in grants for his research.^[1]

Education and honors

Education

Brown received a bachelors with honors in 1963 before obtaining his PhD in 1967:^[1]

Bachelor of Arts, Zoology, 1963, Cornell University
PhD, Zoology, 1967, University of Michigan

Honors

Honors James Brown has received include:^[1]

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1988
C. Hart Merriam Award (American Society of Mammalogists) 1989
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995
Eugene P. Odum Award for Education (Ecological Society of America), 2001^[4]
Marsh Ward for Career Achievement, (British Ecological Society), 2002
Robert H. MacArthur Award (Ecological Society of America), 2005
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005

Portal

In 1977 Brown, in collaboration with Diane Davidson and James Reichman, started a research project in the Chihuahuan Desert near Portal, Arizona to study competition between rodents and ants and their influence on the annual plant community.^[5]

Books

Book: Brown . J.H. . A.C. . Gibson . 1983 . Biogeography . registration . Mosby . 1st . St. Louis, MO.
Book: Real . L. . J.H. . Brown . 1991 . Foundations of Ecology . registration . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 9780226705941.
Book: Genoways . H.H. . J.H. . Brown . 1993 . Biology of the Heteromyidae . American Society of Mammalogists . 978-0935868661.
Book: Brown, J.H. . 1995 . Macroecology . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 9780226076157.
Book: Brown . J.H. . M.V. . Lomolino . 1998 . Biogeography . registration . 2nd . Sinauer . Sunderland, MA.
Book: Brown . J.H. . G.B. . West . 2000 . Scaling in Biology . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 9780195131420.
Book: Lomolino . M.V. . D.F. . Sax . J.H. . Brown . 2004 . Foundations of Biogeography . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 9780226492360.
Book: Lomolino . M.V. . B.R. . Riddle . J.H. . Brown . 2005 . Biogeography . 3rd . Sinauer . Sunderland, MA.
Book: Storch . D. . Marquet . P.A. . Brown . J.H. . 2007 . Scaling in Biodiversity . Cambridge University Press . New York . 9780521876025.
Book: Lomolino . M.V. . B.R. . Riddle . R.J. . Whittaker . J.H. . Brown . 2009 . Biogeography . 4th . Sinauer . Sunderland, MA . 9780878934867 . registration .
Book: Smith . F.A. . J.L. . Gittleman . J.H. . Brown . 2014 . Foundations of Macroecology . 1st . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 9780226115337.

External links

Notes and References

James Hemphill Brown Curriculum Vitae . July 26, 2011 . University of New Mexico . August 17, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150322001217/http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/Documents/PDFS/JBrown%20CV-11-10.pdf . March 22, 2015 . dead .
James H. . Brown . Brian A. . Maurer . Macroecology: the division of food and space among species on continents . Science . 243 . 4895 . 1989 . 1145–1150 . 10.1126/science.243.4895.1145 . 17799895 . 1989Sci...243.1145B . August 17, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120124191332/http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/Documents/Publications/1980s/Macroecology%20-%20The%20Division%20of%20Food%20and%20Space.pdf . January 24, 2012 . dead . 10.1.1.170.3029 . 14508955 .
James H. . Brown . James F. . Gillooly . Andrew P. . Allen . Van M. . Savage . Geoffrey B. . West . Toward a metabolic theory of ecology . Ecology . 85 . 7 . 2004 . 1771–1789 . August 17, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002835/https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~drewa/pubs/brown_jh_2004_e85_1771.pdf . March 4, 2016 . 10.1890/03-9000 . dead.
Eugene P. Odum Award . Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America . 2002 . 17–18 . August 17, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924001946/http://www.esa.org/history/Awards/bulletin/odum2001.pdf . September 24, 2015 . dead .
Book: William J. . Resetarits, Jr. . Joseph . Bernardo . Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives . . 1998 . 978-0-19-515042-1.