{"id":3532,"date":"2015-07-03T19:02:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2015-07-03T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T19:02:13","slug":"tilman-g-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/tilman-g-d\/","title":{"rendered":"G. David Tilman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> G. David Tilman<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> \u00a0Aurora, IL 7\/2\/1949 (as Titman; name changed in 1976)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> \u00a0Michigan (B.S. 1979; Ph.D. 1976)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>\u00a0Interspecific competition for resources: An experimental and theoretical study.<\/em><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"Peter Kilham\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/kilham-p\/\">Peter Kilham<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> \u201cI was also greatly influenced by Steve Hubbell and John Vandermeer when I was an undergraduate and graduate student, by Susan Kilham, Nelson Hairston, and Dan Janzen as a graduate student, and by Robert May and Paul Ehrlich as a young faculty member.\u201d<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching History:<\/span> \u00a0Minnesota 1984-present; UC Santa Barbara 2011-present<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph. D. Students:<\/span> Val Smith, Robert Sterner, James Grover, David Wedin\u00a0 Nancy Collins Johnson,\u00a0 John Lichter, Evan Siemann, Elena Litchman, Clarence Lehman, Chris Klausmeier, Charles Mitchell, Joseph Fargione, Stan Harpole<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> (Post-Doctoral Researchers): Richard Inouye, Nancy Huntly, John Pastor, Don Zak, Scott Gleeson, Scott Wilson, Mark Ritchie, Kaoru Kitajima, Walter Carson, Johannes Knops, Bryan Foster , Nick Haddad, Jason Hill , Dario Fornara, Forest Isbell<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> \u00a0Cooper Award 1989; MacArthur Award 1996; Fellow 2012<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/cooper1989.pdf\">Cooper Award<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/macarthur1996.pdf\">MacArthur Award<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Tilman\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a> | <a title=\"David Tilman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.umn.edu\/lab\/tilman\/davidtilman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UMN bio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. David Tilman Born: \u00a0Aurora, IL 7\/2\/1949 (as Titman; name changed in 1976) Education: \u00a0Michigan (B.S. 1979; Ph.D. 1976) Dissertation title: \u00a0Interspecific competition for resources: An experimental and theoretical study. Advisor: Peter Kilham (C) Comments: \u201cI was also greatly influenced by Steve Hubbell and John Vandermeer when I was an undergraduate and graduate student, by Susan Kilham, Nelson Hairston, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-microbios","tag-microbiographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}