"Hal" Mooney (born June 1, 1932 in Santa Rosa, California) is an American ecologist and professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
He is an expert on plants and the functioning of ecosystems from the Tropics to the Arctic.
[1] Hal Mooney has served as chairman of the United States National Research Council Committee on ecosystem management for Sustainable Marine Fisheries.
He has been a coordinator of the United Nations Global Biodiversity Assessment (1995).
He has been president of the Ecological Society of America and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[2] the American Philosophical Society,[3] and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.