William Dwight Billings (December 29, 1910 – January 4, 1997) was an American ecologist. Billings was one of the foundational figures in the field of physiological ecology and made major contributions to desert ecology and arctic ecology.
Billings served as President of the Ecological Society of America from 1978 to 1979. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979, and awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award in 1991. (Full article...)