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Mark Herbert Williamson

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1963-1993 Biology University of York, York, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
biological invasions, macroecology
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https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/ecology-evolution/mark-h-williamson/
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Mark Herbert Williamson OBE is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of York, England. He is an expert on biological invasions. Williamson attended Christ Church, Oxford where he gained a BA degree in 1950 and received a D.Phil. in 1958, having been a Departmental Demonstrator in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford since 1952. Between 1958 and 1962, Williamson was a Senior/Principal Scientific Officer (SSO/PSO) at the Oceanographic Laboratory of the Scottish Marine Biological Association. Between 1962 and 1965, he was a Lecturer at the Department of Zoology at Edinburgh University. In 1963, he was appointed Professor at the University of York on its founding. He was Head of Department in the Department of Biology at York from 1963 until 1984. In 1993, Mark Williamson was appointed professor emeritus. In 1994, he received an OBE in the 1994 New Year Honours.

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Philip Macdonald Sheppard research assistant 1954 Oxford (Anthropology Tree)

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Paul Harvey grad student 1971 University of York
Graham Bell post-doc 1975 University of York

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Dornelas M, Antão LH, Moyes F, et al. (2018) BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography : a Journal of Macroecology. 27: 760-786
Rodriguez-Cabal MA, Williamson M, Simberloff D. (2013) Overestimation of establishment success of non-native birds in Hawaii and Britain Biological Invasions. 15: 249-252
Thomas CD, Williamson M. (2012) Extinction and climate change. Nature. 482: E4-5; author reply E
Anderson BJ, Chiarucci A, Williamson M. (2012) How differences in plant abundance measures produce different species‐abundance distributions Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 3: 783-786
Perrings C, Burgiel S, Lonsdale M, et al. (2010) International cooperation in the solution to trade-related invasive species risks. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1195: 198-212
Williamson M. (2010) Why do species abundance distributions of individuals and of biomass behave differently under sampling Oikos. 119: 1697-1699
Williamson M, McGowan JA. (2010) The copepod communities of the north and south Pacific central gyres and the form of species-abundance distributions Journal of Plankton Research. 32: 273-283
Williamson M, Dehnen-Schmutz K, Kühn I, et al. (2009) The distribution of range sizes of native and alien plants in four European countries and the effects of residence time Diversity and Distributions. 15: 158-166
Dehnen-Schmutz K, Touza J, Perrings C, et al. (2007) The horticultural trade and ornamental plant invasions in Britain. Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society For Conservation Biology. 21: 224-31
Dehnen-Schmutz K, Touza J, Perrings C, et al. (2007) A century of the ornamental plant trade and its impact on invasion success. Diversity and Distributions. 13: 527-534
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