Walker, Lawrence R. 1951-

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Walker, Lawrence R. 1951-

PERSONAL:

Born September 11, 1951. Education: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Ph.D., 1985.

ADDRESSES:

Office—School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Juanita Greer White Hall, WHI 101, 4505 Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, NV 89154-4004; fax: 702-895-3956. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].

CAREER:

Academic and biologist. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, professor of biology.

WRITINGS:

Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground, Elsevier (New York, NY), 1999.

(With Roger del Moral) Primary Succession and Ecosystem Rehabilitation, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Richard J. Hobbs) Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession, Springer (New York, NY), 2007.

(With Roger del Moral) Environmental Disasters, Natural Recovery and Human Responses, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor to academic journals, including Science, Restoration Ecology, Journal of Arid Environments, Ecology, Biotropica, Journal of Ecology, and Journal of Vegetation Science.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Biodiversity, September, 2007, Andy Hamilton, review of Environmental Disasters, Natural Recovery and Human Responses, p. 47.

BioScience, November, 2003, review of Primary Succession and Ecosystem Rehabilitation, p. 1129.

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, October, 2007, J. Cummings, review of Environmental Disasters, Natural Recovery and Human Responses, p. 308.