The Farm as Natural Habitat

Laura Jackson co-edited The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems to Ecosystems. Contributors bring together insights and practices from conservation biology, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity, and farming, in support of the idea that the agricultural landscape can be restored to a healthy diversity. She is a University of Northeern Iowa biology professor who teaches courses in applied ecology, conservation biology, general biology labs and environmental studies; with forays into advanced ecology and the ecology of agricultural systems. She has a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University. This is the Shivvers Memorial Lecture.