Henry S. Horn
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Henry S. Horn is a natural historian and ecologist. He is currently an emeritus professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Princeton University
. He has worked on a wide variety of topics including the following:
He is also one of several scientists to have proposed the intermediate disturbance hypothesis
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He has worked on a wide variety of topics including the following:
- the geometrical structure of forests
- patterns of forest succession
- wind dispersal of seeds
- spatial patterns of competitionCompetitionCompetition is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two and only two strive for a goal which cannot be shared. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For...
- social behaviorSocial behaviorIn physics, physiology and sociology, social behavior is behavior directed towards society, or taking place between, members of the same species. Behavior such as predation which involves members of different species is not social...
of butterflies
He is also one of several scientists to have proposed the intermediate disturbance hypothesis
Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis states that local species diversity is maximized when ecological disturbance is neither too rare nor too frequent. At low levels of disturbance, more competitive organisms will push subordinate species to extinction and dominate the ecosystem...
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