David M. Wilkinson is an ecologist with very wide interest, having published research on organisms ranging from bacteria to sauropod dinosaurs. He was a Reader in environmental science at Liverpool John Moores University, where he taught for almost a quarter of a century. He is now visiting Professor in ecology at the University of Lincoln, and an honorary research fellow in archaeology at the University of Nottingham. His book<i> Fundamental Processes in Ecology; An Earth Systems Approach</i> won the British Ecological Society’s Marsh Book of the Year Award in 2007.
