James Brown (ecologist)

James Hemphill Brown
Born (1942-09-25) September 25, 1942 (age 82)
United States
Alma materCornell University
University of Michigan
Known forMacroecology
Metabolic theory of ecology
Scientific career
FieldsEcology
InstitutionsUniversity of New Mexico
Doctoral advisorEmmet T. Hooper

James Hemphill Brown (born September 25, 1942) is an American biologist and academic.

He is an ecologist, and as of 2001 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]

  1. ^ a b "James Hemphill Brown Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of New Mexico. July 26, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Brown, James H.; Maurer, Brian A. (1989). "Macroecology: the division of food and space among species on continents" (PDF). Science. 243 (4895): 1145–1150. Bibcode:1989Sci...243.1145B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.170.3029. doi:10.1126/science.243.4895.1145. PMID 17799895. S2CID 14508955. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  3. ^ Brown, James H.; Gillooly, James F.; Allen, Andrew P.; Savage, Van M.; West, Geoffrey B. (2004). "Toward a metabolic theory of ecology" (PDF). Ecology. 85 (7): 1771–1789. doi:10.1890/03-9000. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2014.