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Robert H. MacArthur
Robert Helmer MacArthur (April 7, 1930 – November 1, 1972) was a Canada, Canadian-born American ecology, ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community ecology, community and population ecology.
Early life and education
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Award is a biennial prize given by the
Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists. Based in the United States and founded in 1915, ESA publications include peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, fact sheets, and teaching resources. I ...
to ecologists for their pivotal contributions to their field. The acceptance speeches of many recipients have been given at the annual meeting of the society and subsequently published in the ESA's journal, ''
Ecology
Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...
''.
The following is a self-descriptive quote taken from the Robert H. MacArthur Award page on the ESA's website: "The Robert H. MacArthur Award is given biennially to an established ecologist in mid-career for meritorious contributions to ecology, in the expectation of continued outstanding ecological research. Nominees may be from any country and need not be ESA members. The recipient is invited to prepare an address for presentation at the annual meeting of the society and for publication in Ecology."
Recipients
Source
ESA*1983
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was an American lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. ...
, United States
*1984
Robert McCreadie May, United Kingdom
*1986
Thomas W. Schoener, United States
*1988
Simon Asher Levin, United States
*1990
William W. Murdoch
William W. Murdoch (born 1939) is a Charles A. Storke II professor of population ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Over the years, his research has focused primarily on the subjects of population regulation, predator–prey ...
, United States
*1992
Peter M. Vitousek, United States
*1994
Henry Miles Wilbur, United States
*1996
David Tilman, United States
*1998
Robert V. O'Neill, United States
*2000
Stephen R. Carpenter, United States
*2002
James H. Brown, United States
*2004
May Berenbaum
May Roberta Berenbaum (born July 22, 1953) is an American entomologist whose research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants, and the implications of these interactions on the organization of natura ...
, United States
*2006
Alan Hastings, United States
*2008
Monica Turner
Monica G. Turner is an American ecologist known for her work at Yellowstone National Park since the large fires of 1988. She is currently the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Life and career
Turne ...
, United States
*2010
Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala is the Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He has worked on climate change, population ecology, and global interactions between the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. Si ...
, United States
*2012
Anthony Ragnar Ives, United States
*2014
Mercedes Pascual, United States
*2016
Anurag A. Agrawal, United States
*2018
Katharine N. Suding. United States
*2020
Jonathan M. Levine, United States
*2022
Priyanga Amarasekare, United States
See also
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List of ecology awards
References
External links
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American science and technology awards
Awards established in 1983
Ecology awards