James Garvey

Jim Garvey is a Professor of Zoology living and teaching in southern Illinois. He has written several scientific articles and contributions to books about ecology. He and co-author, Dr. Matt Whiles, have written the first Trophic Ecology textbook, which merges organismal feeding interactions with ecosystem and biogeochemical processes in the environment.

Also by Jim Garvey - Cardboard Soldiers (as James Scotson).

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