Background
Shugart, Herman Henry was born on January 19, 1944 in El Dorado, Arkansas, United States. Son of Herman Henry and Katherine Luvois Shugart.
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During the summer of 1987, a series of discussions I was held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (nASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, to plan a study of global vegetation change. The work was aimed at promoting the Interna tional Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), sponsored by the International Council of Scientific Unions (lCSU), of which nASA is a member. Our study was designed to provide initial guidance in the choice of approaches, data sets and objectives for constructing global models of the terrestrial biosphere. We hoped to provide substantive and concrete assistance in formulating the working plans of IGBP by involving program planners in the development and application of models which were assembled from available data sets and modeling ap proaches. Recent acceptance of the "nASA model" as the starting point for endeavors of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Core Project of the IGBP suggests we were successful in that aim. The objective was implemented by our initiation of a mathematical model of global vegetation, including agriculture, as defined by the forces which control and change vegetation. The model was to illustrate the geographical consequences to vegetation structure and functioning of changing climate and land use, based on plant responses to environmental variables. The completed model was also expected to be useful for examining international environmental policy responses to global change, as well as for studying the validity of IIASA's experimental approaches to environmental policy development.
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(Predicting how terrestrial ecosystems might respond in th...)
Predicting how terrestrial ecosystems might respond in the future to large-scale human-generated changes is a major challenge for ecologists. In Terrestrial Ecosystems in Changing Environments, Herman H. Shugart describes the fundamental ecological concepts, theoretical developments, and quantitative analyses involved in understanding the responses of natural systems to change. The key ecological concepts described include the ecosystem paradigm, niche theory, vegetation/climate relationships, landscape ecology and ecological modeling. A variety of ecological models are presented, and their applications in predicting responses to change are considered. The challenge of producing ecological models capable of predicting long-term and large-area ecosystem dynamics is reviewed and several examples are provided. Finally, some of the exciting new findings regarding terrestrial landscapes and their feedback with their climatic setting are discussed in the context of human land use and global change.
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researcher environmental sciences educator
Shugart, Herman Henry was born on January 19, 1944 in El Dorado, Arkansas, United States. Son of Herman Henry and Katherine Luvois Shugart.
Bachelor of Science, University Arkansas, 1966. Master of Science, University Arkansas, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, University Georgia, 1971.
Research scientist, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, 1971-1984; assistant professor, U. Tennessee, Knoxville, 1971-1975; associate professor, U. Tennessee, Knoxville, 1975-1982; professor, U. Tennessee, Knoxville, 1982-1984; W.W. Corcoran professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1984; department chairman environmental science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1990-1993.
(During the summer of 1987, a series of discussions I was ...)
(Predicting how terrestrial ecosystems might respond in th...)
(To the human eye, a forest is a slowly changing ecosystem...)
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Ecological Society of America (member editorial board 1981-1983).
Married Ramona Jeanne Kozel, August 27, 1966. Children: Erika Christine, Stephanie Laurel.