NSF Biographical Sketch - Pulliam, Ronald
 

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Name: Pulliam, Ronald
Telephone: 706.542.6010
Email: pulliam2@uga.edu
Organization:
Institute of Ecology
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principle Investigator
Specialty: Impacts of land-use change
Habitat: Forests, especially eastern deciduous forest
Organism: Birds, Other vertebrates and vascular plants
Core Area(s): Avian population trend, Spatially explicit population models, Landscape ecology and habitat requirement of forest herbs

Education:
B.S., University of Georgia, Zoology, 1968
Ph.D., Duke University, Zoology (minor in Applied Mathematics), 1970
Post Doctoral, University of Chicago, Population Genetics, 1971

Appointments:
Regent’s Professor of Ecology, University of Georgia, 1998-Present
Member, Commission on Geosciences Environment and Resources, National Research Council, 1997-2000
Science Advisor, US Department of the Interior, 1996-1997
Director, National Biological Service, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., 1994-1996
Director, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Associate Professor, 1987-1994
President, Ecological Society of America, 1991-1992

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Kadmon, R. and H.R. Pulliam. 1995. Effects of isolation, logging, and dispersal on woody-species richness of islands. Vegetatio 4:1-7.

Pulliam, H.R. 1996. Sources and sinks: empirical evidence and population consequences. Pages 45-69 in O.E. Rhodes, Jr., R.K. Chesser, and M.H. Smith, eds. Population dynamics in ecological space and time. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Pulliam, H.R. and B. Babbitt. 1997. Science and the protection of endangered species. Science 273:499-500.

Pulliam, H.R. 2000. On the relationship between niche and distribution. Ecology Letters 3:349-361.

Pulliam, H.R. and B. Johnson. 2001. Ecology's new paradigm. In Ecological thinking for design and planning education. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Synergistic Activities:
Numerous scientific collaborations; active in professional societies and university governance.