DAVID B. CLARK, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

E-Mail: DCLARK@sol.racsa.co.cr

Education

Ph.D., Zoology (minor in Botany), University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1978.
B.A. (with Honors), Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 1970.

Professional Experience

1994 - present. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

1980 - Feb. 1994. Co-Director, La Selva Biological Station, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica.

1978 - 1979. Co-Director, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Stinson Beach, California.

Selected Publications

Clark, D.B., D.A. Clark, P.M. Rich, S. Weiss and S.F. Oberbauer.1996. Landscape-scale evaluation of understory light and canopy structure: methods and application to a neotropical lowland rain forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research in press.

Clark, D.B. 1996. Abolishing virginity. Journal of Tropical Ecology in press.

Clark, D.B. and D.A. Clark. 1996. Abundance, growth and mortality of very large trees in neotropical lowland rain forest. Forest Ecology and Management 80:235-244.

Clark, D.A., D.B. Clark, R.Sandoval, and M.V. Castro. 1995. Edaphic and human effects on landscape-scale distributions of tropical rain forest palms. Ecology 76:2581-25594.

Paaby, P. and D.B. Clark. 1995. Conservation and local naturalist guide training programs in Costa Rica. Pp. 261-275 In S.K. Jacobson (ed.), Conserving Wildlife: International Education and Communication Approaches. Columbia University Press, New York.

Clark, D.A. and D.B. Clark. 1994. Climate-induced variation in canopy tree growth in a Costa Rican tropical rain forest. Journal of Ecology 82:865-872.

Rhoades, C.C., R.L. Sanford, Jr. and D.B. Clark. 1994. Gender dependent influences on soil phosphorus by the dioecious lowland tropical tree Simarouba amara. Biotropica 26:362-368.

Clark, D.B. 1994. Management of a multiple function reserve: the La Selva Biological Station. Pages 388-395 In G. Meffe and R. Carroll (eds.), Principles of Conservation Biology. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Clark, D.B., D.A. Clark, and P.M. Rich. 1993. Comparative analysis of microhabitat utilization by saplings of nine tree species in neotropical rain forest. Biotropica 25:397-407.

Oberbauer, S.F., D.B. Clark, D.A. Clark, P.M. Rich and G. Vega. 1993. Light environment, gas exchange, and annual growth of saplings of three species of rain forest trees in Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 9:511-523.

Clark, D.A. and D.B. Clark. 1992. Life history diversity of canopy and emergent trees in a neotropical rain forest. Ecological Monographs 62:315-344.

Clark, D.B. and D.A. Clark. 1991. The impact of physical damage on canopy tree regeneration in tropical rain forest. Journal of Ecology 79:447-457.

Paaby, P., D.B. Clark and H. Gonzalez. 1991. Training rural residents as naturalist guides: evaluation of a pilot project in Costa Rica. Conservation Biology 5:542-546.

Clark, D.B., and D.A. Clark. 1991. Herbivores, herbivory, and plant phenology: patterns and consequences in a tropical rain forest cycad. Pages 209-225 in P.W. Price, T.M. Lewinsohn, G. Wilson Fernandes, and W. Benson (eds.). Plant-Animal Interactions: Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions. John Wiley and Sons.

Clark, D.B. 1990. The role of disturbance in the regeneration of neotropical moist forests. Pages 291-315 in K. Bawa and M. Hadley (eds.). Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Rain Forest Plants. Parthenon Publishing, Park Ridge, New Jersey, USA.

Clark, D.B. and D.A. Clark. 1989. The role of physical damage in the seedling mortality regime of a neotropical rain forest. Oikos 55:225-230.

Clark, D.A., and D.B. Clark. 1987. Analisis de la regeneraci¢n de arboles del dosel en bosque muy humedo tropical: aspectos tecnicos y practicos. Revista de Biologia Tropical 35 (Suppl. 1):41-54.

Clark, D.A., and D.B. Clark. 1984. Spacing dynamics of a tropical rain forest tree: evaluation of the Janzen-Connell model. American Naturalist 124:769-788.

Research Interests

Population ecology and ecophysiology of lowland rain forest trees. Effects of natural and human disturbance on plant population biology and ecosystem function in tropical forests. Application of remote-sensing and GIS techniques to landscape-scale study of tropical tree demography. Application of academic biology to ecodevelopment in rural areas of the tropics.