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Canadian ecologist and academic (1931–2016) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orie L. Loucks (October 2, 1931 – September 10, 2016) was a professor at Miami University Department of Zoology. He was a noted ecologist and environmentalist who worked to get DDT banned in Wisconsin in 1969.[1]
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Orie Loucks | |
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Born | Minden, Ontario, Canada |
Education | 1949 Graduate of Lindsay Collegiate Institute
1953 — B.Sc.F. — University of Toronto (Forestry) 1955 — M.Sc.F. — University of Toronto (Forestry) 1960 — Ph.D. — University of Wisconsin (Botany; Soils/Meteorology minor) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ecology Zoology |
Books:
(1) 1974. U.S. Participation in the International Biological Program, Report No. 6 of the U.S. National Committee for the International Biological Program. Senior Editor for the executive committee of the U.S./IBP, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 166 pp.
(2) 1979. Aquatic Plant Harvesting and Lake Management. Proceedings of a Conference on the Efficacy and Impact of Intensive Plant Harvesting in Lake Management. Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 435 pp. (Edited with J. Breck and R. Prentki).
(3) 1979. Impacts of air pollutants on wilderness areas of northern Minnesota. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory-Duluth. EPA-600/3-80-44. (Edited with G.E. Glass.)
(4) 1993. John T. Curtis, 50 Years of Wisconsin Plant Ecology. Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Science. 339 pp. (Edited with J. S. Fralish and R. P. McIntosh).
(5) 1998. Loucks, Orie L. (Ed.), Jan Willem Bol, 0. Homer Erekson, Norman Grant, Ray Gorman, Pam Johnson, and Tim Krehbiel, Sustainability Perspectives for Resources and Business. CRC/Lewis/St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton, FL.
(6) 2006. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 351 pp. (Edited witl Jianguo Wu, K. Bruce Jones, and Harbin Li)
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