Terrestrial ecology award goes to Harvard scientist
Campbell Webb, a senior research scientist at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, has been chosen by the Terrestrial Ecology jury of the International Ecology Institute as the winner of the 2008 International Recognition of Professional Excellence Prize.
Webb’s innovative empirical studies in plant communities have resulted in ecologists reconsidering the role of niche differentiation in mature communities and communities experiencing invasion. His other contributions include the emergence of community phylogenetics through conceptual syntheses, and the development of software tools that help community ecologists apply phylogenetic perspectives to their data sets. Devoted to understanding and conserving the tropical forest, Webb has conducted much of his research while based in Borneo.
Reprinted from the Harvard University Gazette