Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Professor James A. MacMahon passed away on May 6, 2024, in Logan, Utah, having played a leading role in the science of ecology and in the Ecological Society of America.Jim was ESA's president in 1997-1998, guiding the society through difficult financial times and expanding membership through young scientist recruitments.Jim received the ESA Distinguished Service Award* in 2005 and was an ESA Elected Fellow in 2012.Jim's scientific career spanned 71 years, of which the last 53 years were spent in the Department of Biology at Utah State University, Logan.Over these many years, Jim mentored 62 graduate students and published 135 papers and books.While always professing to be "just a simple country boy," to everyone who knew him, Jim was clearly a "Renaissance Man" in all respects and an ecologist in every sense of the word.His enormous breadth of scientific interests and knowledge was illustrated in the wide range of his studies; Jim and his students published ecological papers on snakes, turtles, lizards, frogs, salamanders, birds, rodents, large mammals, spiders, ants, beetles, grasshoppers, flies, mycorrhizal fungi, and plant communities from forests to deserts.Jim's expertise lay in the areas of disturbance ecology, succession, and ecosystem restoration (specifically animal-related disturbances, volcanic eruptions, and surface mining activities), along with the
DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2190
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: hybrid
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