Michael Barbour
Ph.D. (Duke). Professor of Environmental Horticulture. His research interests focus on environmental factors that limit the distribution of vegetation and how vegetation has changed due to human interaction with it. He teaches courses in general plant biology, plant ecology, California vegetation, forest biology, and Nature and Culture. He is the author or co-author of standard textbooks on plant biology, plant ecology, and of the vegetation of California and of North America. His most recent publication is an essay, "Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties" in the 1995 book Uncommon Ground.
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