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Peter B. Reich is Regents Professor,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, and F.B. Hubachek
Sr. Chair (in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology) in the
College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences
at the University of Minnesota. Reich's teaching and research
focus on ecology, global change, and the sustainability
of managed and unmanaged terrestrial ecosystems, focusing
predominantly on forests. Reich is best known for his work
in tropical, temperate and boreal biomes on the physiological
ecology of trees and the mechanisms by which physiology
is in part responsible for processes at organism, community
and ecosystem scales.
Reich is active additionally in an
array of other research activities. For example, he is the
lead scientist on a unique open-air experiment with elevated
carbon dioxide in tall grass prairie; and on a project examining
boreal forest sustainability in the face of fire suppression,
logging, and climate change; and he initiated the development
of an international scientific network to develop a global
plant physiological data base.
He has written more than 200 articles
published in peer-reviewed international scientific journals
or books, including 10 in leading journals such as Nature;
and has been engaged in research in tropical, temperate
and boreal ecosystems on five continents. Reich has served
on the editorial boards of several leading international
journals; has received numerous honors, such as the Pound
Research Award (University of Wisconsin), the Presidential
Young Investigator Award (National Science Foundation),
named Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University
Professor (University of Minnesota) and the Distinguished
Ecologist Award (Lectureship, Michigan Technological University);
has served on advisory and review panels for the National
Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, NASA,
the EPA, and the USDA Forest Service; and is among the 10
most frequently cited ecologists in the world according
to the Institute for Scientific Information. |
University of Minnesota
Department of Forest Resources
115 Green Hall
1530 Cleveland Avenue N.
St. Paul, MN 55108
(612) 624-4270
E-mail: preich@umn.edu
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