Charles Krebs
Charles Joseph Krebs | |
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Born |
St. Louis, Missouri | September 17, 1936
Fields | Population ecology |
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Alma mater | |
Thesis | The lemming cycle at Baker Lake, N.W.T., during 1959-61 (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Dennis Chitty |
Other academic advisors | Ian McTaggart-Cowan |
Known for | Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance |
Website http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~krebs/ |
Charles J. Krebs, FRSC (born 17 September, 1936) is a professor emeritus of population ecology in the University of British Columbia Department of Zoology.[1] He is also Thinker-in-residence at the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is renowned for his work on the fence effect, as well as his widely used ecology textbook Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance.[2]
Select awards and recognition
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1979[2]
- Killam Senior Fellowship, 1985
- President’s Medal, University of Helsinki, 1986
- Honorary doctorate, University of Lund, 1988
- Sir Frederick McMaster Senior Fellowship, CSIRO, Australia, 1992
- C. Hart Merriam Award, American Society of Mammalogists, 1994
- Fry Medal, Canadian Society of Zoologists, 1996
- Eminent Ecologist Award, Ecological Society of America, 2002
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