Richard T. T. Forman

PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology
Harvard Design School
Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Further Information: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/forman/index.html

Degrees

B.S., Haverford College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania;
M.A. hon., Harvard University; L.H.D. hon., Miami University,
D.Sc. hon., Florida International University

Positions

Instituto Agropecuario Nacional, Guatemala, Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Honduras, and American Friends Service Committee Volunteer
Assistant Professor of Botany and Zoology, University of Wisconsin
Assistant Professor to Professor II; Director, Graduate Program in Botany and Plant Physiology; Director, Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center, Rutgers University
PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology, Harvard University

Honors

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fulbright Scholar, Bogota, Colombia
Chercheur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, C.E.P.E., Montpellier, France
President, Torrey Botanical Society
Vice President, Ecological Society of America
Vice President, International Association for Landscape Ecology
Christian and Mary Lindback Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching
Who's Who in America, 1984-present; Who's Who in the World, 1994-present
Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, England
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Miami University
Distinguished Landscape Ecologist, Int. Association for Landscape Ecology, U.S. Section
Taught at field stations in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Costa Rica, and St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands
Member, Editorial Board of six scientific journals
Consultant to President of Costa Rica and Minister of Natural Resources and Energy
Member, National Research Council: Committees: Study of Transportation and a Sustainable Environment; Advisory Board for the Transportation Research Board; Task Force on Ecology and Transportation
Honorary Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinica, Shenyang, China
Special Citation for book, Land Mosaics, Int. Assoc.for Landscape Ecology, U.S. Section
Medal of the University of Florence, Faculty of Architecture, Italy
Charles University Medal, Prague, Czech Republic
Miegunyah Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
Distinguished Scholarship Award, International Association for Landscape Ecology
Honorary Member, Societa Italiana di Ecologia del Paesaggio, Italy
Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Florida International University
Regional Planning Consultant for Mayor and Head Planner, Barcelona, Spain

Primary books

Forman, R. T. T., editor. 1979. Pine Barrens: Ecosystem and Landscape. Academic Press, New York. 601 pages. [1998 edition, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey].

Forman, R. T. T. and M. Godron. 1986. Landscape Ecology. John Wiley, New York. 619 pages. [1990, 1994, Chinese editions; 1993, Czech edition].

Zonneveld, I. S. and R. T. T. Forman, editors. 1990. Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective. Springer-Verlag, New York. 286 pages.

Forman, R. T. T. 1995. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 632 pages. [1998, 4th printing; 2000 Korean Edition (2002 paperback)].

Dramstad, W., J. D. Olson and R. T. T. Forman. 1996. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-use Planning. Published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design, American Society of Landscape Architects, and Island Press, Washington, D.C. 80 pages. [1998, 2nd printing].

Forman, R. T. T., D. Sperling, J. A. Bissonette, A. P. Clevenger, C. D. Cutshall, V. H. Dale, L. Fahrig, R. France, C. R. Goldman, K. Heanue, J. A. Jones, F. J. Swanson, T. Turrentine, and T. C. Winter. 2003. Road Ecology: Science and Solutions. Island Press, Washington,
D.C. 481 pages. [2003, 2nd printing].

Foreman, R.T.T. 2004. Mosaics Territorial para la region metroplitana de Barcelona. Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, Spain. 150 pages.

Selected recent articles

Forman, R. T. T. and L. E. Alexander. 1998. Roads and their major ecological effects. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29: 207-231.

Collinge, S. K. and R. T. T. Forman. 1998. A conceptual model of land conversion processes: predictions and evidence from a microlandscape experiment with grassland insects. Oikos 82: 66-84.

Forman, R. T. T. and R. D. Deblinger. 2000. The ecological road-effect zone of a Massachusetts (USA) suburban highway. Conservation Biology 14: 36-46.

Forman, R. T. T. 2000. Estimate of the area affected ecologically by the road system in the United States. Conservation Biology 14: 31-35.

Forman, R. T. T. 2002. The missing catalyst: design and planning with ecology roots. Pages 85-109 in Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning, Johnson, B. R. and K. Hill, eds. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Forman, R. T. T., B. Reineking, and A. M. Hersperger. 2002. Road traffic and nearby grassland bird patterns in a suburbanizing landscape. Environmental Management 29: 782-800.

Hersperger, A. M. and R. T. T. Forman. 2003. Adjacency arrangement effects on plant diversity and composition in woodland patches. Oikos 101: 279-290.

Forman, R.T.T. 2004. Road Ecology's Promis: What's around the bend? Environment 46(4):8-21.

Teaching, research and writing

Professor Forman teaches graduate and undergraduate ecological courses in the Harvard Design School and in Harvard College. His research and writing include landscape ecology, road ecology, changing land mosaics, regional and town planning/conservation, and spatially meshing nature and people on the land.