John Pastor is an ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, where his teaching and research focused on the Natural History and ecology of northern ecosystems.
He is a past co-chair of the Natural History Section of the Ecological Society of America and founding editor of The Scientific Naturalist series in the journal Ecology..
He is the author of What Should a Clever Moose Eat? and Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems , is co-editor of Large Mammalian Herbivores, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Conservation , and has authored or coauthored 22 book chapters and over 120 papers, mostly about the North Woods.
John Pastor is an ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, where his teaching and research focused on the Natural History and ecology of northern ecosystems