{"id":3663,"date":"2015-07-14T04:50:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T04:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2015-07-14T04:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T04:50:19","slug":"root-r-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/root-r-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard B. Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard B. Root<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Dearborn, MI 9\/7\/1936; died 1\/22\/2013<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Michigan (B.S. 1958), UC Berkeley (Ph.D. 1964)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"Frank A. Pitelka\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/pitelka-f-a\/\">Frank A. Pitelka<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Niche organization in the blue-gray gnatcatcher<\/em> Polioptila caerulea<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Other influences:<\/span> (undergraduate) Frederick E. Smith, Herbert Wagner, Francis Evans, Nelson Hairston<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Cornell 1964-2005 (became emeritus)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D. students:<\/span> Beverly Rathcke, <a title=\"Peter Kareiva\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/kareiva--p-m\/\">Peter Kareiva<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Vice President 1979-80; President 1985-86; Eminent Ecologist 2003; Odum Award 2004; Fellow 2012<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links: <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/biogr\/Root_RBpb.pdf\">Presidential bio<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent2003.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/odum2004.pdf\">Odum Award<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Root_RB.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard B. Root Born: Dearborn, MI 9\/7\/1936; died 1\/22\/2013 Education: Michigan (B.S. 1958), UC Berkeley (Ph.D. 1964) Advisor: Frank A. Pitelka Dissertation title: Niche organization in the blue-gray gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea Other influences: (undergraduate) Frederick E. Smith, Herbert Wagner, Francis Evans, Nelson Hairston Teaching history: Cornell 1964-2005 (became emeritus) Ph.D. students: Beverly Rathcke, Peter Kareiva ESA offices and honors: Vice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3663","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\/3663","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=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}