Pablo A. Marquet

Dr. Marquet's work has focused on the quest for general principles underlying the complexity of ecological systems, the integration of theories in ecology and the ecological basis of human social complexity. His works on scaling relationships, at the level of complete communities, and on species diversity and size evolution on islands, provided an explicit and novel connection between allometric scaling, island biogeography and evolution. These findings paved the way for later developments in macroecology and metabolic ecology and a deeper understanding of the extent to which our society is sequestering energy from the biosphere to fuel social complexity from hunter gatherers to modern times. His integrative and multidisciplinary mind would be a great asset to the AAAS.