Henry S. Horn

Henry S. Horn (November 12, 1941 – March 14, 2019)[1] was a natural historian and ecologist. He was an emeritus professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Princeton University. He worked on a wide variety of topics including the following:

Education

He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1962 and his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington in 1966. His Ph.D. thesis was a pioneering study on the adaptive nature of the social behavior of blackbirds.[1]

He was one of several scientists to have proposed the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.[6]

References
  1. "Ecologist Henry Horn, founding director of Program in Environmental Studies, dies at 77". Princeton University. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  2. MacArthur, R.H.; Horn, H.S. (1969). "Foliage profiles by vertical measurements". Ecology. 50 (5): 802–804. doi:10.2307/1933693. JSTOR 1933693.
  3. H.S.Horn (1975). "Forest Succession". Scientific American. 232 (5): 90–98. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0575-90.
  4. R. Nathan; G.G. Katul; H.S. Horn; S.M. Thomas; R. Orem; R. Avissar; S.W. Pacala; S.A. Levin (2002). "Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind". Nature. 418 (6896): 409–413. doi:10.1038/nature00844.
  5. H.S. Horn; R.H. MacArthur (1972). "Competition among fugitive species in a harlequin environment". Ecology. 53 (4): 749–752. doi:10.2307/1934797. JSTOR 1934797.
  6. Horn, H.S. (1975). "Markovian properties of forest succession". In Cody, M.L.; Diamond, J. M. (eds.). Ecology and evolution of communities. Belknap Press, Massachusetts, USA. pp. 196–211. ISBN 978-0-674-22444-5.

Books

Horn, H.S. (1971) The Adaptive Geometry of Trees Princeton University Press.

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