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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
121015
World Ranking
2008
National Ranking
727

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 1970 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1966 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

C. S. Holling was affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their academic and research career focused on ecological and environmental sciences.

The scientist was recognized with several awards, reflecting their standing in the scientific community. These included being named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2012, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1970 with a citation from the Academy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1968. Earlier in their career, they received the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America in 1966.

C. S. Holling did not have records of co-authors, paper publications, or book publications available in the provided data. Information on specific research subfields, fields of study, or main topics was also not provided.

Best Publications

  • Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

    C S Holling

  • Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems

    Brian Walker;C. S. Holling;Stephen R. Carpenter;Ann P. Kinzig

  • Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems

    Lance H. Gunderson;C. S. Holling

  • Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management

    C.S. Holling

  • Some characteristics of simple types of predation and parasitism

    C. S. Holling

  • Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems

    C. S. Holling

  • Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

    Carl Folke;Steve Carpenter;Brian Walker;Marten Scheffer

  • The components of prédation as revealed by a study of small-mammal prédation of the European pine sawfly.

    Crawford S. Holling

  • Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

    Kenneth Arrow;Bert Bolin;Robert Costanza;Partha Dasgupta

  • Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment.

    Kenneth Arrow;Bert Bolin;Robert Costanza;Partha Dasgupta

  • The functional response of predators to prey density and its role in mimicry and population regulation.

    C. S. Holling

  • Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management

    C.S. Holling;Gary K. Meffe

  • Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale

    Garry Peterson;Craig R. Allen;Crawford S. Holling

  • Large‐Scale Management Experiments and Learning by Doing

    Carl J. Walters;C. S. Holling

  • Cross-Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems

    C. S. Holling

  • Resilience of ecosystems: local surprise and global change.

    C. Holling

  • Barriers and bridges to the renewal of ecosystems and institutions

    Lance H. Gunderson;C. S. Holling;Stephen S. Light

  • The Functional Response of Invertebrate Predators to Prey Density

    C. S. Holling

  • Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

    Per Olsson;Lance H. Gunderson;Steve R. Carpenter;Paul Ryan

  • Resilience and adaptive cycles

    C. S. Holling;L. H. Gunderson

  • STABILITY OF SEMI-ARID SAVANNA GRAZING SYSTEMS

    B. H. Walker;D. LUDWIGt;C. S. Holling;R. M. PETERMANt

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig R. Allen
Craig R. Allen University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Lance Gunderson
Lance Gunderson Emory University
Charles Perrings
Charles Perrings Arizona State University
Karl-Göran Mäler
Karl-Göran Mäler Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
William C. Clark
William C. Clark Harvard University
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London

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