C. S. Holling

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C. S. Holling
Born(1930-12-06)December 6, 1930
Theresa, New York, U.S.
DiedAugust 16, 2019(2019-08-16) (aged 88)
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater
Known forCo-founder of ecological economics
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEcology
InstitutionsUniversity of Florida
ThesisThe components of predation as revealed by a study of predation by small mammals of Neodiprion sertifer (Geoff.) (1957)
Doctoral advisorIan McTaggart-Cowan
Doctoral students

Crawford Stanley "Buzz" Holling, OC FRSC (December 6, 1930 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian ecologist, and Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. Holling was one of the conceptual founders of ecological economics.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Crawford Stanley Holling was born in 1930 in the United States to Canadian parents. He grew up in Northern Ontario, which was where he first became interested in nature. As a teenager he was a member of the Royal Ontario Museum's Toronto Junior Field Naturalists.

Holling received his B.A. and M.Sc. at the University of Toronto in 1952 and his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in 1957. He worked for several years in the Canadian Department of Forestry in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

After working for

Forestry Canada, Buzz Holling was, at various times, Professor and Director of the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna
, and Eminent Scholar, Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecological Sciences in the Department of Zoology at the University of Florida.

He retired from the University of Florida in 1999, but remained on the faculty as an Emeritus Eminent Scholar.

He was awarded two major awards from the

Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his pioneering contributions to the field of ecology, notably for his work on ecosystem dynamics, resilience theory and ecological economics".[5]

He was founding editor-in-chief of the open access on-line journal Conservation Ecology, now renamed Ecology and Society.[6] He was also the founder of the Resilience Alliance, an international science network.[6]

Work

Throughout his research, C. S. Holling blended

panarchy
.

His early work included major contributions to population and behavioural ecology. Later, he was among the first ecologists to recognize the importance of nonlinear dynamics. This early work on predation led to a series of papers, including his 1959 Citation Classic paper in the Canadian Entomologist, in which he developed the notion of functional response (the relationship between prey density and the rate at which prey is eaten), an idea that continues to be a linchpin of modern population ecology.

His 1973 paper on the

resilience of ecological systems had a substantial impact within ecology and other natural and social sciences. He has also contributed important ideas to ecological management, including Adaptive management
and the Adaptive Cycle. More recently his work on the cross-scale structure and dynamics of ecosystems has been highly influential. This work resulted in the 2002 book Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems.

His work is frequently cited in the fields of ecology,

environmental management, ecological economics
and the human dimensions of global change.

Literature

C.S. Holling has edited or co-edited several books:

C.S. Holling's most cited articles include:

  • 1959 "The components of predation as revealed by a study of small mammal predation of the European Pine Sawfly". in: Canadian Entomologist. Vol 91 : 293–320.
  • 1973. "Resilience and stability of ecological systems". in: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Vol 4 :1-23.
  • 1978, with D. Ludwig, D. and D.D. Jones. in: "Qualitative analysis of insect outbreak systems". Journal of Animal Ecology. Vol 47 (1): 315–332.
  • 1990, with C.J. Walters, "Large-scale management experiments and learning by doing", in: Ecology. Vol 71 (6): 2060-2068
  • 1992, "Cross-scale Morphology, geometry, and dynamics of ecosystems". in: Ecological Monographs. Vol 62 (4): 447-502
  • 1996, with G.K. Meffe. "Command and control and the pathology of natural resource management". in: Conservation Biology. Vol 10 (2): 328–337.

References

  1. ^ "In Memoriam Buzz Holling". University of British Columbia. September 13, 2019.
  2. ^ "Pioneering the Science of Surprise". Stockholm Resilience Centre. August 23, 2019.
  3. doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0425-9
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  4. ^ "Buzz Holling's Resilient Universe". The Tyee. November 19, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  5. ^ "Governor General announces 60 new appointments to the Order of Canada". July 1, 2009. Archived from the original on July 5, 2009.
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    ISSN 1195-5449
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  7. S2CID 189873758
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