Biography
Education & Professional Positions:
Harold A. Mooney holds the Paul S. Achilles Professorship in Environmental Biology at Stanford University. He received his BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his PhD from Duke University, USA
Memberships, Editorial Responsibilities & Committees:
Mooney has served as President of the Ecological Society, President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and Vice President and Secretary General of the International Council for Science. He has served on many editorial boards for ecological journals, and on advisory committees of many funding agencies, universities, and national and international agencies. He has served as editor on Environment and Pollution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Ecosystems, Journal of Mediterranean Ecology, and Biological Invasions, as well as Series editor of Physiological Ecology (Academic Press), and Ecological Studies (Springer-Verlag). He is currently Chair of DIVERSITAS (an international program for biodiversity science), and he served as Co-Chair of the Science Panel for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Research Interests:
Mooney is currently engaged in research on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems, especially on productivity and biodiversity; the invasion of non-indigenous plant species; and the environmental and social consequences of industrialized animal production systems.
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