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BIO
Lives and works in Pennsylvania
EDUCATION
1965 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
POSITIONS
1976 - present Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Technical Advisor, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica (uncompensated)
MAJOR RESEARCH HONORS
1997 Kyoto Prize in Basic Science
1996 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, University of Minnesota
1996 Thomas E. and Louise G. DiMaura Endowed Term Chair in Conservation Biology
1995 Conservation Biology Award, Society for Conservation Biology
1994 Silver Medal Award, International Society of Chemical Ecology
1993 Decreed Honorary Member of the National Park Service of Costa Rica
1993 Award for Improvement of Costa Rican Quality of Life, Universidad de Costa Rica (co-award with W. Hallwachs).
1992 Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
1989 MacArthur Fellowship
1984 Crafoord Prize: Coevolutionary ecology. Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
339 published papers and book chapters on tropical ecology, biodiversity and tropical conservation
Janzen, D.H. 1988. Ecological characterization of a Costa Rican dry forest caterpillar fauna.
Biotropica 20:120-135.
Janzen, D. H. 1993. Caterpillar seasonality in a Costa Rican dry forest. In Caterpillars. Ecological and
evolutionary constraints on foraging. Eds. N. E. Stamp and T. M. Casey, Chapman and
Hall, New York, pp. 448-477.
Gauld, I. D. and D. H. Janzen 1994. The classification, evolution and biology of the Costa Rican
species of Cryptophion (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 110:297-324.
Janzen, D. H. and I. D. Gauld 1997. Patterns of use of large moth caterpillars (Lepidoptera:
Saturniidae and Sphingidae) by ichneumonid parasitoids (Hymenoptera) in Costa Rican
dry forest (in press).
Janzen, D. H. 1996. Prioritization of major groups of taxa for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI)
of the Guanacaste Conservation Area in northwestern Costa Rica, a biodiversity
development project. ASC Newsletter 24 (4): 45, 49-56.
Janzen, D. H. 1984. Two ways to be a tropical big moth: Santa Rosa saturniids and sphingids. Oxford
Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 1:85-140.
Janzen, D.H. 1988. Guanacaste National Park: Tropical ecological and biocultural restoration. In
Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems, Vol. II, J. Cairns, Jr., ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton,
Florida, pp. 143-192.
Janzen, D. H. and W. Hallwachs 1994. Ethical aspects of the impact of humans on biodiversity. In
Man and his environment. Tropical forests and the conservation of species, ed. G. B.
Marini-Bettolo. Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia 84:227-255.
Janzen, D. H. 1996. Wildland biodiversity management in the tropics. In Biodiversity II, eds. M. L.
Reaka-Kudla, D. E. Wilson and E. O. Wilson. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
411-431.
Janzen, D. H. 1996. On the importance of systematic biology in biodiversity development. ASC
Newsletter 24:17, 23-28.
Janzen, D. H. 1997. Causes and consequences of biodiversity loss: liquidation of natural capital and
biodiversity resource development in Costa Rica. In Biodiversity and human health,
eds. F. Grifo and J. Rosenthal, Island Press, Washington, D. C. pp. 302-311.
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