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David Campbell
Professor of Biology & Henry R. Luce Professor of Nations and the Global
Environment
Ph.D. 1984, The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health; Department of Immunology & Infectious Disease.
Tel: 641-269-4932; FAX: 641-269-4285;
Office: Science-1824; Email campbell@grinnell.edu
Environmental Studies Web Site
My research is in the ecology and species composition of tropical and subtropical
forests in both the Paleotropics and Neotropics. In the Brasilian Amazon, I have
eight permanent study sites - embracing a total of over 22,000 trees which are
regularly monitored - from the foothills of the Andes to the Atlantic, where my
research is on the evolution and maintenance of tropical botanical diversity, the
relationship between disturbance and diversity, tree demography, phytosociology,
the ecology of flooded forest vs. terra firme forest, and allelopathy. In
Belize I have 43 study sites, including one at Terra Nova, the world's first medicinal
plant reserve, and one at El Pilar, a Late Classic ruined Maya city of forest-covered
temples and pyramids, where my students and I are investigating the 1,200 year-old
signature of the collapsed Maya Civilization on the species composition of the
Maya forest. In
collaboration with colleagues at Nanjing University (where I am an adjunct professor)
and Hainan University, I have two study sites in the subtropical forests of Hainan
Island, southern China, where we are investigating patterns of tree species
distribution and the economic botany of the minority Li and Miao tribes.
Since I came to Grinnell in 1991, hundreds of Grinnell students have joined me
on research or teaching expeditions to the tropics, and have learned tropical plant
taxonomy using the 25,000 herbarium specimens of tropical trees kept in my
laboratory at Grinnell.
My other passion is writing (See Grinnell's
Community of Writers).
Author of
The Ephemeral Islands,
The Crystal Desert,
Islands in Space in Time, and
A Land of Ghosts, and co-editor of
Floristic Inventory of Tropical Countries, I specialize in literary nonfiction.
- Fall
ENV-145: Nations and the Global Environment
- Spring
ENV-495: Senior Seminar - Latin America
- Fall
ENV-145: Nations and the Global Environment
- SpringENV-295: Special Topic - An Environmental History of Food
ENV-495: Senior Seminar - Africa
- Biology 295: Biogeography
- Biology 395: Advanced Special Topic: Tropical Biodiversity
- Environmental Studies 145: Nations and the Global Environment
- Environmental Studies 195: Intermediate Special Topic: Historical Ecology
- Environmental Studies 295: Special Topic: Africa & Global Environment
- Environmental Studies 395: Advanced Special Topic: Terrestrial and Marine Ecology of Belize
- Environmental Studies 495: Senior Seminar: Latin American Environmental Issues
- Environmental Studies 495: Senior Seminar: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- Environmental Studies 495: Senior Seminar: Historical Ecology
- Environmental Studies 495: Senior Seminar: Africa
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