Samuel J. McNaughton

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Samuel Joseph McNaughton (born August 10, 1939) is an American ecologist and professor at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. at University of Texas-Austin in 1964, and was tenured to Syracuse University in 1966.

Sam McNaughton is mainly known for his studies of plant–herbivore interactions and consequences of herbivory to ecosystems, not the least his more than thirty years of exploring the interactions between vegetation and communities of wild grazers in the grasslands of Serengeti National Park. He has also studied differentiation and geographical distributions of ecotypes in Typha. He is a highly cited scientist^[1]

He was given the Eminent Ecologist Award for 2004 by Ecological Society of America.

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↑ ISI highly cited researcher.

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