Prof. Dr. Richard B. Primack

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
Keywordsplant ecology, plant phenology, conservation ecology, tropical ecology, flowering times

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBoston
InstitutionBoston University
InstituteDepartment of Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Susanne RennerBereich Biodiversitätsforschung: Systematische Botanik und Systematische Mykologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2014

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Primack is one of the world's leading conservation biologists. For the past 14 years, he and his colleagues have been investigating the effects of a warming climate on the plants and birds of Massachusetts, with an emphasis on continuing the observations made 160 years ago by Henry David Thoreau in Concord. In Germany, Professor Primack plans to devote his research to the study of leafing-out and other plant traits which are undergoing rapid change as a result of the impact of global warming.