Prof. David J. Gibson Southern Illinois University, USA

David Gibson is Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology at SIUC. Originally from the UK, Professor Gibson has degrees in botany from the University of Reading (BSc Hons 1979), University of Oklahoma (MS 1981), and Bangor University, Wales (PhD 1985). Prof. Gibson’s research interests include population and community ecology, succession, plant... read morecompetition, exotic species, agroecology, and grassland ecology. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, and two books (Grasses and Grassland Ecology, OUP 2009; Methods in Comparative Plant Population Ecology, 2nd edition, OUP 2015). Prof. Gibson is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Executive Editor for Journal of Ecology, and Editor-in-Chief for the Oxford Bibliographies Online Ecology series.