Landscape Ecology

Jim Sanderson is currently working for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He is also Director of Conservation for Mountain View Farms and Conservation Breeding Centre, Vancouver, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1976. An avid traveler, Dr. Sanderson has collected and synthesized wildlife issues from around the world. His interests include quantitative ecology, community ecology, and landscape ecology. He maintains an active research program on small wild cats in South America. Larry D. Harris is Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida. He began his professional career as a conservationist trained in the Midwest and then east Africa. After finishing his Ph.D. in systems ecology, he worked in the systems modeling group for the grassland biome project of the international biological program (USIBP). He has spent the last 27 years developing biodiversity conservation programming at the University of Florida, as well as being a globally active consultant on this subject. His work that has received the most attention and award recognition concerns the role and importance of forests to the perpetuation of biodiversity on earth: in Florida as well as globally.