Richard T.T. Forman Explained

Richard T. T. Forman
Birth Date:	10 November 1935
Birth Place:	Richmond, Virginia
Education:	^[1]
Thesis Title:	Growth under controlled conditions, an explanation of the distribution patterns of the moss Tetraphis pellucida
Thesis Year:	1961
Doctoral Advisor:	Ralph O. Erickson
Awards:	Lindback Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching

Richard Townsend Turner Forman is a landscape ecologist. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Design and Harvard College in the Harvard University. Forman has been called the "father" of landscape ecology for his work linking ecological science with spatial patterns describing how people and nature interweave on land.^[2]

He is the author of a widely held textbook for landscape ecology, "Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions."^[3] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 564 libraries ^[4]

He served as Vice President of the Ecological Society of America from 1982-1983 and was elected a Fellow in 2012.^[5]

Publications

• Allen . Edith Bach . Forman . Richard T. T. . Richard T.T. Forman . Plant Species Removals and Old-Field Community Structure and Stability . . Ecological Society of America (Wiley) . 57 . 6 . 1976 . 0012-9658 . 10.2307/1935047 . 1233–1243. 1935047 .
• Forman, Richard T. T. and Michel Godron 1986. Landscape Ecology. John Wiley and Sons (New York)
• Forman, Richard T. T. 1995. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press,
• Forman . Richard T. T. . Richard T.T. Forman . Alexander . Lauren E. . Roads and Their Major Ecological Effects . . . 29 . 1 . 1998 . 0066-4162 . 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.29.1.207 . 207–231.
• Forman, Richard T. T. et al. 2003. Road Ecology: Science and Solutions. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.
• Forman, Richard T. T., ed. 1979. Pine Barrens: Ecosystem and Landscape. New York: Academic Press, According to WorldCat, the book is held in 562 libraries^[6]
• Forman, R. T. T. 2008. Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York. 408 pp .
• Forman, R. T.T. 2014. Urban Ecology: Science of Cities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York. 462 pp. [Finalist, Society of Biology 2014 Book Award; Chinese edition in preparation].
• Forman, R. T. T. 2015. Launching landscape ecology in America and learning from Europe. In History of Landscape Ecology in the United States. G.W. Barrett, T.L. Barrett and J. Wu, eds. New York: Springer. Pages 13–30.

See also

• Mill Brook, about which Forman wrote in his 1977 publication Concord's Mill Brook: Flowing Through Time

Notes and References

1. Web site: Forman CV. Harvard School of Design. 2016-04-24.
2. Web site: Forman bio. Harvard School of Design. 2016-04-24.
3. Book: Land mosaics: the ecology of landscapes and regions. 94039092.
4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31329626 WorldCat item record
5. Web site: Richard T.T. Forman. Ecological Society of America. 7 April 2018.
6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4775716 WorldCat item record