Eric W. Sanderson, a landscape ecologist an
Vice President for Urban Conservation Strategy
at the New York Botanical Garden in the

Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

, director of the

Mannahatta Project The Mannahatta Project is a Wildlife Conservation Society research project in historical ecology led by landscape ecologist Eric W. Sanderson that principally ran for 10 years, from 1999-2009, reconstructing the island at the point of first contac ...

and the author of ''Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City''. In 2013 Sanderson's book ''Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs'' was published. Sanderson earned his B.A.S. and Ph.D. in ecology from the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. He was Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) where he worked from 1998 to 2023 when he joined the New York Botanical Garden. As part of his work at WCS, Sanderson was the chief author, researcher, and director of the

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