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Richard Townsend Turner Forman is a landscape ecologist. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Design and Harvard College in the Harvard University. Forman has been called the "father" of landscape ecology for his work linking ecological science with spatial patterns describing how people and nature interweave on land.

He is the author of a widely held textbook for landscape ecology, "Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions." According to WorldCat, the book is held in 564 libraries

He served as Vice President of the Ecological Society of America from 1982-1983 and was elected a Fellow in 2012.

Publications

• Allen, Edith Bach; Forman, Richard T. T. (1976). "Plant Species Removals and Old-Field Community Structure and Stability". Ecology. 57 (6). Ecological Society of America (Wiley): 1233–1243. doi:10.2307/1935047. ISSN 0012-9658. JSTOR 1935047.
• Forman, Richard T. T. and Michel Godron 1986. Landscape Ecology. John Wiley and Sons (New York) ISBN 0471870374
• Forman, Richard T. T. 1995. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521479806
• Forman, Richard T. T.; Alexander, Lauren E. (1998). "Roads and Their Major Ecological Effects". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 29 (1). Annual Reviews: 207–231. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.29.1.207. ISSN 0066-4162.
• Forman, Richard T. T. et al. 2003. Road Ecology: Science and Solutions. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003. ISBN 9781559639330
• Forman, Richard T. T., ed. 1979. Pine Barrens: Ecosystem and Landscape. New York: Academic Press, ISBN 9780122634505 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 562 libraries
• Forman, R. T. T. 2008. Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York. 408 pp .
• Forman, R. T.T. 2014. Urban Ecology: Science of Cities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York. 462 pp. .
• Forman, R. T. T. 2015. Launching landscape ecology in America and learning from Europe. In History of Landscape Ecology in the United States. G.W. Barrett, T.L. Barrett and J. Wu, eds. New York: Springer. Pages 13–30.

See also

• Mill Brook, about which Forman wrote in his 1977 publication Concord's Mill Brook: Flowing Through Time

References

1. ^ "Forman CV". Harvard School of Design. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
2. "Forman bio". Harvard School of Design. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
3. Land mosaics: the ecology of landscapes and regions. LCCN 94039092.
4. WorldCat item record
5. "Richard T.T. Forman". Ecological Society of America. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
6. WorldCat item record

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