Charles Krebs

Charles Joseph Krebs
Born	(1936-09-17) 17 September 1936 St. Louis, Missouri
Alma mater	University of Minnesota University of British Columbia
Known for	Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance
Scientific career
Fields	Population ecology
Institutions	University of British Columbia University of Canberra
Thesis	The lemming cycle at Baker Lake, N.W.T., during 1959-61 (1962)
Doctoral advisor	Dennis Chitty
Other academic advisors	Ian McTaggart-Cowan
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. 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.

Select awards and recognition

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1979
• 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

External links

• Ecological Rants: Charles Krebs' Blogs