John Terborgh

Author of Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest

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About the Author

John Terborgh is James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science and Botany and codirector of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University

Works by John Terborgh

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Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest (1992) 132 copies

Where Have All the Birds Gone? Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics (1989) 47 copies

Requiem for Nature (1999) 33 copies

Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature (2010) 17 copies

Five New World Primates: A Study in Comparative Ecology (Princeton Legacy Library) (1984) 6 copies

Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature (2002) 6 copies

Five New World primates : a study in comparative ecology (1984) 4 copies

'Out of Contact' in NYRB 59/6, 5 April 2012 [review of Scott Wallace's 'The Unconquered: in search of the Amazon's last uncontacted tribes'] 1 copy

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The Best American Science Writing 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 139 copies

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