John W Terborgh, NSEES Professor  

John W Terborgh

Education:
PhD Biology (plant physiology), Harvard University, 1963
AM Biology, Harvard University, 1960
AB Biology (cum laude), Harvard College, 1958

Office Location: Primate Center
Office Phone: (919) 490-9081
Email Address: manu@duke.edu

Specialties:
tropical ecology
biodiversity
conservation biology
ecology

Research Categories: tropical ecology and conservation issues, and avian and mammalian ecology in neotropical forests.

Research Description:

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. J.W. Terborgh et al., Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments, Science, vol. 294 (2001), pp. 1923-1926 .
  2. J.W. Terborgh, A dying world. Reviews "One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon rain forest" by Wade Davis and "The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People" by Nigel Smith, New York Review of Books, vol. 47 (2000), pp. 38-40 .
  3. J.W. Terborgh, Requien para a natureza, in II Congresso Brasileiro de Unidades de Conservacão, Anais, Conferencias e Palestras, vol. 1 (2000), pp. 92-96 .
  4. J.W. Terborgh, In the company of humans, Natural History, vol. 109 (2000), pp. 54-62 .
  5. R. Cintra & J.W. Terborgh, Microspatial heterogeneity and seed and seedling survival of the palm, Astrocaryum murumuru, and the legume, Dipteryx micrantha, in an Amazonian forest, Ecotropica, vol. 6 (2000), pp. 77-88 .
  6. J.W. Terborgh, The fate of tropical forests: a matter of stewardship, Conservation Biology, vol. 14 (2000), pp. 1358-1361 .

Curriculum Vitae

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