Contact: Kay Fike Jones
A forest and wildlife ecologist and author will discuss the variety of living things in forests when he visits Mississippi State University April 15.
Larry Harris, author of "The Fragmented Forest" (1984, University of Chicago Press), will speak on "The Ascendance of Landscape Ecology in the Conservation of Forest Biodiversity" in Tully Auditorium of Thompson Hall at 3 p.m.
The fourth Carlton N. Owen Lecturer, his visit is sponsored by the College of Forest Resources.
A professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida, Harris has received numerous awards for his research in forest and wildlife ecology and for his teaching.
He is best known for "The Fragmented Forest," but has published three other books and more than 100 scientific papers in related areas. Harris has been involved in many national and international renewable resource management efforts, including those in Botswana, Costa Rica and Sweden, with the U.S. National Park Service, and on behalf of the Florida panther.
He received his doctorate from Michigan State University in 1970.
For more information, contact Alex Friend, forestry department, at (601) 325-2779; e-mail alf2@ra.msstate.edu.