John W. Terborgh

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences

Environmental Sciences and Policy

manu@duke.edu

Box 90381, Durham, NC 27708-0381

3705C Erwin Rd, Durham, NC 27705-5015

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Selected Grants

Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu Peru

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Conservation International · 2013 - 2017

From fruit to sapling: constructing a long-term, basin-wide,community-level, ontogentically & phenomenologically integrated picture of tree recruitment in western Amazonian lowland rainforests.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2012

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Novel Approaches to the Study of the Community Ecology of Tropical Trees

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2006 - 2009

Operation of a Trophic Cascade in Predator-Free Forest Fragments

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1997 - 2005

Doctoral Dissertation: Large-Scale Tree Species Distributions and Habitat Associations in Amazonia: Testing Theories of Tropical Forest Community Structure

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1999 - 2001

Dissertation Research: Abiotic and Biotic Control of Tree Regeneration: An Experimental Comparison of Sites around Gatun Lake, Panama

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1998 - 2000

Termitaria and Avian Coexistence

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1995 - 1996

Ecological Impacts of Hyperabundant Species: the Role of a Generalist Herbivore in Plant Recruitment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1995 - 1996

Understory Colonization in a Neotropical Rain Forest

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1994 - 1995

Policy Assistance on Promoting Sustainable Development and the Environment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by US Agency for International Development · 1990 - 1995

What Are Intact Tropical Forests Really Worth?

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1990 - 1991

Policy Assistance on Promoting Sustainable Development and the Environment

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by US Agency for International Development · 1990 - 1990