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David Mark Richardson (born June 16, 1958) is a South African ecologist, particularly known for his work on invasive species [1], especially invasive trees and shrubs.
Born in Pretoria, Dave Richardson graduated with a BSc in Forestry from Stellenbosch University in 1981 and received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Cape Town in 1989. He worked as Associate Professor of Botany and Deputy Director of the Institute for Plant Conservation at the University of Cape Town (1992–2004), and Professor of Ecology in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University and Deputy-Director: Science Strategy at the Centre for Invasion Biology (both since 2004).
In 2006, Richardson was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize (Hans Sigrist Stiftung, Switzerland) [2]; in 2007 he received an A1 rating from South Africa’s National Research Foundation; and in 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. In 2009 he won the National Science and Technology Forum Award (Category B; Individual, through research and its outputs over the last five years); in 2009 he was elected a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa; in 2012 he received the John F.W. Herschel Medal from the Royal Society of South Africa for his “multidisciplinary contribution to science in South Africa through your exceptional work on the ecology of biological invasions and management strategies for introduced species”[3]. Since 1998 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Diversity and Distributions.
Selected publications
[edit]• Richardson, D.M. & Bond, W.J. (1991). Determinants of plant distribution: Evidence from pine invasions. American Naturalist 137: 639-668.
• Rejmánek, M. & Richardson, D.M. (1996). What attributes make some plant species more invasive? Ecology 77: 1655-1661.
• Cowling, R.M., Richardson, D.M. & Pierce, S.M. (eds) (1997). Vegetation of southern Africa. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-54801-4.
• Richardson, D.M. (ed)(1998). Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-78910-3.
• Richardson, D.M. (1998). Forestry trees as invasive aliens. Conservation Biology 12: 18-26.
• Higgins, S.I. & Richardson, D.M. (1999). Predicting plant migration rates in a changing world: the role of long-distance dispersal. American Naturalist 153: 464-475.
• Richardson, D.M., Allsopp, N., D'Antonio, C.M., Milton, S.J. & Rejmánek, M. (2000). Plant invasions: The role of mutualisms. Biological Reviews 75: 65-93.
• Richardson, D.M., Pyšek, P., Rejmánek, M., Barbour, M.G., Panetta, D.F. & West, C.J. (2000). Naturalization and invasion of alien plants - concepts and definitions Diversity and Distributions 6: 93-107.
• Richardson, D.M. & Rejmánek, M. (2004). Invasive conifers: A global survey and predictive framework. Diversity and Distributions 10: 321-331.
• Richardson, D.M. & Pyšek, P. (2006). Plant invasions – merging the concepts of species invasiveness and community invasibility. Progress in Physical Geography 30: 409-431.
• Richardson, D.M. & Rundel, P.W., Jackson, S.T., Teskey, R.O., Aronson, J., Bytnerowicz, A., Wingfield, M.J. & Procheş, S. (2007). Human impacts in pine forests: past, present and future. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38: 275-297.
• Richardson, D.M., Hellmann, J.J., McLachlan, et al.(2009). Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 9721-9724.
• Richardson, D.M. (ed.)(2011). Fifty years of invasion ecology. The legacy of Charles Elton. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-4443-3585-9.
• Richardson, D.M., Carruthers, J., Hui, C., Impson, F.A.C., Robertson, M.P., Rouget, M., Le Roux, J.J., Wilson, J.R.U. (2011). Human-mediated introductions of Australian acacias—a global experiment in biogeography. Diversity and Distributions 17: 771-787
References:
1. SA prof best in invasion biology. MediaClubSouthAfrica.com. Retrieved January 9. 2012.
2. Cape academic winds top Swiss science prize. IOL News. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
3. Top award for local invasion biologist. SA-peole.com. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
Category:1958 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Pretoria
Category:South African biologists
