Richard Primack

Richard B. Primack is an American plant ecologist and conservation biologist whose research focuses on the effects of climate change on plants and animals of New England. He has worked as a professor of biology at Boston University since 1978.

Primack's book, ''Walden Warming'', and much of his research draws on records kept by Henry David Thoreau and other 19th-century naturalists in Concord, Massachusetts. His lab group pioneered the use of non-traditional data sources to investigate the effects of climate change, including photographs, museum specimens, citizen science networks, naturalist diaries, and experiments using dormant twigs. He served as president of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in 2003 and as editor-in-chief of ''Biological Conservation'' from 2008 to 2016. Primack is also the author of conservation biology textbooks used around the world. Provided by Wikipedia