C. S. Holling

Professor, Emeritus Emminent Scholar in Ecological Science
Ph. D.   University of British Columbia, 1957

University of Florida,
16871 Sturgis Circle
Cedar Key, FL
32625
Voice: (352) 543 6955 Fax: (352) 543 6472
holling@zoology.ufl.edu

Research Interests

Systems ecology across scales, from organism, to ecosystem, to landscape to planet.   Comparative analysis of the time and spatial structure of ecosystems - boreal, Everglades, tropical rain forest, savanna and semi-desert. Crawford (Buzz) Holling received his B.A. and M.Sc. at the University of Toronto (1952) and his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (1957). He worked for some years in the laboratories of the Department of the Environment, Government of Canada, emphasizing research on mathematical and experimental analysis of ecological processes, particularly predator/prey dynamics. Since then, he has been, at various times, Professor and Director of the Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria. During this period, his research emphasized theoretical and applied aspects of ecological systems and ecological policy and adaptive environmental assessment and management. The goal has been to blend concepts of stability theory and ecology with modelling and policy analysis.

Representative Publications

Holling, C.S. 1992. Cross-scale morphology, geometry and dynamics of ecosystems. Ecological Monographs. 62(4):447-502.

Holling, C.S., D.W. Schindler, B. Walker and J. Roughgarden. 1994. Biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems: an ecological primer and synthesis. In: C.

Perrings, K-G MS¹ler, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling and, B-O Jansson, (eds.) Biodiversity Loss: Ecological and Economic Issues. Cambridge University Press.

L. H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling and S. S. Light. In Press (due 1995). Barriers and Bridges to Renewal of Regional Ecosystems and Institutions. Columbia University Press, New York.

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