Harald Beck

Professor

Harald Beck

Contact Info

Phone:
410-704-3123
Office:
Science Complex, Room 3101D
Email:
hbeck@towson.edu

Education

M.S. in Zoology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 1994
Ph.D. University of Miami, Florida, USA, 2002

Areas of Expertise

Mammal-plant Interactions, tropical Ecology
IUCN Chair, Peccary Specialist Group

Biography

My research interests include mammal-plant interaction, multi trophic-level interactions, and ecosystem engineering in temperate and tropical ecosystems. Recently, my research focuses on the effects of hyper-abundance of ungulates in the northern hemisphere and defaunation of ungulates in the southern hemisphere. My study sites are located within the Peruvian Amazonas and forests in Maryland.

Publications

Biles, T., L., Beck, H. and Masters, B. 2021. . Ecology and Evolution 11: 18531-18539.

Hazelwood, K., Beck, H. and Paine, C. E. T. 2021. . Journal of Ecology 109:1909-1918. 

Hurtado, C., Beck, H. Thebpanya, P. and Altrichter M. 2020.
. Tropical Ecology 61: 400-411.

Hazelwood, K., Paine, C. E. T., Cornejo Valverde, F. H., Pringle, E. G., Beck, H. and Terborgh, J. 
2020.
. Ecology and Evolution 10:3392-3401. 

Terborgh, J., Nuñez, N. H., Feeley, K., and Beck, H. 2020.
. Ecology 101: e02996.

Beck, H. 2019. Tropical Ecology. In: B. Fath (ed.). Encyclopedia of Ecology (pp. 671-678). 
Volume II, second edition, Elsevier B.V., Oxford. 

Hurtado, C., Beck, H. and Thebpanya, P. 2018.
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HYSTRIX, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 29:229-231. 

Pacheco, L. F., Altrichter, M., Beck H., Buchori, D. and Owusu E. 2018. . BioScience 68:238.

Reyna-Hurtado, R., Keuroghlian, A., Altrichter, M., Beck, H. and Gongora, J. 2017. . In M. Melletti & E. Meijaard (Eds.), Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries (pp. 255-264). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Beck, H., Keuroghlian, A., Reyna-Hurtado, R., Altrichter, M. and Gongora, J. 2017. . In M. Melletti & E. Meijaard (Eds.), Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries (pp. 265-276). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Keuroghlian, A., Reyna-Hurtado, R., Meijaard, E., Altrichter, M., Beck, H. and Gongora, J. 2017. . In M. Melletti & E. Meijaard (Eds.), Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries (pp. 277-290). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



Courses Taught

  • Spring: BIOL 446/546 Tropical Ecology and Conservation
  • Spring: BIOL 484 Seminar in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior