Publications | Brendon M. H. Larson | Environment and Resource Studies

Brendon Larson - Academic contributions

Invited keynote lectures and symposia

Selected recent publications

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Young, A. M.* and B. M. H. Larson. 2011. Clarifying debates in invasion biology: A survey of invasion biologists. Accepted by Environmental Research.

Larson, B. M. H. 2011. Embodied realism and invasive species. In K. de Laplante and K. Peacock (eds.). Philosophy of Ecology and Conservation Biology. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Elsevier.

Mackenzie, B. F.* and B. M. H. Larson. 2010. Participation under time constraints: Landowner perceptions of rapid response to the emerald ash borer. Society and Natural Resources 23: 1013–1022.

Larson, B. M. H. 2010. Optimizing friction between alternative genomic metaphors: How much plurality is enough? Genomics, Society and Policy 5: 20-28.

Larson, B. M. H. 2010. Reweaving humans and invasive species. Études Rurales 185: 25–38

Larson, B. M. H. 2008. Entangled biological, cultural, and linguistic origins of the war on invasive species. pp. 169-195 in R.M. Frank, R. Dirven, T. Ziemke and E. Bernardez (eds.). Body, Language and Mind. Volume 2: Sociocultural Situatedness. Cognitive Linguistics Research 35.2., Mouton de Gruyter, New York.

Larson, B. M. H. 2008. Friend, foe, wonder, peril: Invasive species are all of these. Alternatives Journal 34: 14-17.

Larson, B. M. H. 2007. An alien approach to invasive species: Objectivity and society in invasion biology. Biological Invasions 9: 947–956.

Larson, B. M. H. 2007. DNA barcoding: The social frontier. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 437–442.

Larson, B. M. H. 2007. Who’s invading what? Systems thinking about invasive species. Canadian Journal of Plant Sciences 87: 993-999.

Larson, B. M. H., P. M. Catling and G. Waldron. 2007. The Biology of Canadian Weeds. 135. Lonicera japonica Thunb. Canadian Journal of Plant Sciences 87: 423-438.

Larson, B. M. H. 2007. Thirteen ways of looking at invasive species. pp. 131-156 in D.R. Clements and S. Darbyshire (eds.). Invasive Plants: Inventories, Strategies, and Action. Topics in Canadian Weed Science series, Volume 5. Canadian Weed Science Society/ Société Canadienne de Malherbologie, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Québec.

Larson, B. M. H. 2006. The social resonance of competitive and progressive evolutionary metaphors. BioScience 56: 997-1004.

Larson, B. M. H. 2005. The war of the roses: Demilitarizing invasion biology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 495-500.

Larson, B. M. H., B. Nerlich and P. Wallis. 2005. Metaphors and biorisks: The war on infectious diseases and invasive species. Science Communication 26: 243-268.

Proctor, J. D. and B. M. H. Larson. 2005. Ecology, complexity and metaphor. BioScience 55: 1065-1068.

Selected publications, continued

Invited keynote lectures

Bruce Peninsula Orchid Festival (Tobermory, ON 2011)
National Association of Biology Teachers PD Conference (Memphis, TN 2008)
Weeds Across Borders (Banff, AB 2008)

Invited international symposia and workshops

Cary Conference: Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action. (Millbrook, NY 2011)
Marine introduced species: Exploring the assumptions behind concern about ‘invasions' (University of Bergen, Norway 2009)
Towards a ‘Lingua democratica’ for the public debate on genomics (Utrecht, The Netherlands 2008)
Enduring voices: Global mapping for languages, cultures and biodiversity (National Geographic Society, Washington, DC 2008)
Workshop to develop Genome Canada’s Strategic Research Theme on GE3LS (genomics and ethics, environment, economics, law and society) – Policy and Knowledge Transfer (Ottawa, ON 2007)
New England workshop on science and social change: Ecological restoration as social reconstruction (Woods Hole, MA 2006)
Ecological metaphors, Workshop I organized at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (Santa Barbara, CA 2004)
Representing Genes (U. Pittsburgh, 2003 – 2004)
Kira Institute summer school, Ways of knowing (Amherst, MA 2001)
Santa Fe Institute complex systems summer school (Santa Fe, NM 2000)

Invited lectures (selected)

Biology Department Seminar Series, the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, and the Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems and Biocultural Conservation Research Cluster, University of North Texas (Denton, TX 2010)
Extended Learning Opportunities (Erin, ON 2010)
Stratford Institute (U. Waterloo, Stratford campus 2010)
Stratford Field Naturalists' Club (Stratford, ON 2010)
Centre for Applied Ethics (Linköping U., Sweden 2009)
Centre for Knowledge Integration (U. Waterloo 2009)
Ethics Institute (Utrecht U., The Netherlands 2009)
Department of Regional Studies (U. Tampere, Finland 2009)
Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club (Essex, ON 2008)
Parks Research Forum of Ontario (Lakehead U., Orillia, ON 2008)
Plant Canada AGM (Saskatoon, SK 2007)
Canadian Weed Science Society AGM (Victoria, BC 2006)
Future Directions in Biology Studies (FDIBS) (Indiana U. 2006)
Biodiversity and Society seminar series (U. California at Davis 2006)
Center for Population Biology (U. California at Davis 2004)
Center for Bioethics and Health Law (U. Pittsburgh 2004)
Center for Philosophy of Science (U. Pittsburgh 2004)
Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks & Society (U. Nottingham, U.K. 2003)
ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Exeter U., U.K 2003)
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (U. La Rioja, Spain 2003)

Conference presentations (accepted based on refereed abstract)

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (U. Oregon 2005)
California Invasive Plant Council AGM (California State U. at Chico 2005)
International Symposium on Society & Resource Management (U. Vermont 2008; Sam Houston State U., TX, 2010, co-authored with E. Ferrier*)
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (U. La Rioja, Spain 2003).
International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (Exeter U., U.K. 2007; U. Guelph 2005; U. Vienna, Austria 2003)
Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium (Queen’s U. 1998; U. Western Ont. 1997; U. Ottawa 1996)
Parks Research Forum of Ontario (U. Waterloo, 2007)
Society for Conservation Biology (San Jose, CA 2006, poster; Beijing, China, 2009, co-authored with A.M. Young; Edmonton, 2010, co-authored with C. Barbeau* and P. Gobster)
Society for Social Studies of Science (Vancouver 2006; Pasadena, CA 2005)
Society for the Study of Evolution (U. Illinois at Champaign-Urbana 2002, poster; U. B.C. 1998)