David Lack
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David Lambert Lack (July 16, 1910 - March 12, 1973) was a British ornithologist and biologist.
Lack was born in London and educated at Gresham's School, Norfolk and Magdalene College, Cambridge where he studied Natural Sciences. He was a teacher until 1940, taking a year off to study bird behaviour on the Galapagos Islands. During World War Two he was involved in early work on radar observations of bird migration. In 1945 he became Director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology.
Lack's scientific research included work on population biology and density dependent regulation. He wrote a number of books, including The Life of the Robin (1943) and Swifts in a Tower (1956).
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Publications
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Books
- Lack, David. 1943. The Life of the Robin. H.F. & G. Witherby, London.
- Lack, David. 1947. Darwin's Finches. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (reissued in 1961 by Harper Bros., New York, with a new preface by Lack; reissued in 1983 by Cambridge University Press with an introduction and notes by Laurene M. Ratcliffe and Peter T. Boag). ISBN 0521252431
- Lack, David. 1954. The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Lack, David. 1956. Swifts in a Tower. Methuen, London.
- Lack, David. 1966. Population Studies of Birds. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Lack, David. 1971. Ecological Isolation in Birds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
- Lack, David. 1976. Island Biology Illustrated by the Land Birds of Jamaica. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0520030079
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Selected papers
- Lack, David. 1940. Evolution of the Galapagos finches. Nature 146:324-327.
- Lack, David. 1942. Ecological features of the bird faunas of British small islands. Journal of Animal Ecology 11:9-36.
- Lack, David. 1945. The Galapagos finches (Geospizinae): a study in variation. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 21:i-vii, 1-152.
- Lack, David. 1973. The numbers of species of hummingbirds in the West Indies. Evolution 27:326-337.Template:Ornithologist-stub