Charles J. Krebs

Charles Joseph Krebs (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.

Research Krebs was interested mostly in smaller mammal ecology; in 1965 he conducted an experiment on voles. He fenced in an area of grassland in an Indiana pasture about the size of a soccer field and observed what happened to the population of voles living inside the fenced area, during this time he was helped transform the field of ecology from a descriptive science to an experimental discipline.

A summary of Krebs's work and his influence on students and colleagues (Judith H. Myers, Stan Boutin, Rudy Boonstra and Tony Sinclair can be seen in a series of seminars entitled [https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/biodiversidad/regulacion-de-poblaciones "Krebs' ecologists: on the regulation of animal populations")

Select awards and recognition Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1979 Fry Medal, Canadian Society of Zoologists, 1996 Northern Science Award, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2002 Corresponding Member, Australian Academy of Science, 2002 Eminent Ecologist Award, Ecological Society of America, 2002 Fellows of the Ecological Society of America, 2012 Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2013