Henry S. Horn (November 12, 1941 – March 14, 2019)[1] was a natural historian and ecologist. He was an emeritus professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Princeton University. He worked on a wide variety of topics including the following:
- the geometrical structure of forests[2]
- patterns of forest succession[3]
- wind dispersal of seeds[4]
- spatial patterns of competition[5]
- social behavior of butterflies
Education edit
He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1962 and his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington in 1966. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis about the adaptive nature of the social behavior of blackbirds.[1]
He was one of several scientists to have proposed the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b "Ecologist Henry Horn, founding director of Program in Environmental Studies, dies at 77". Princeton University. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ MacArthur, R.H.; Horn, H.S. (1969). "Foliage profiles by vertical measurements". Ecology. 50 (5): 802–804. doi:10.2307/1933693. JSTOR 1933693.
- ^ H.S.Horn (1975). "Forest Succession". Scientific American. 232 (5): 90–98. Bibcode:1975SciAm.232e..90H. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0575-90.
- ^ R. Nathan; G.G. Katul; H.S. Horn; S.M. Thomas; R. Orem; R. Avissar; S.W. Pacala; S.A. Levin (2002). "Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind". Nature. 418 (6896): 409–413. Bibcode:2002Natur.418..409N. doi:10.1038/nature00844. PMID 12140556. S2CID 4318881.
- ^ H.S. Horn; R.H. MacArthur (1972). "Competition among fugitive species in a harlequin environment". Ecology. 53 (4): 749–752. doi:10.2307/1934797. JSTOR 1934797.
- ^ Horn, H.S. (1975). "Markovian properties of forest succession". In Cody, M.L.; Diamond, J. M. (eds.). Ecology and evolution of communities. Belknap Press, Massachusetts, USA. pp. 196–211. ISBN 978-0-674-22444-5.
Books edit
Horn, H.S. (1971) The Adaptive Geometry of Trees Princeton University Press.