Awards

National Academies - 1965

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About Charles Krebs

Charles Krebs is a zoologist who studies population dynamics of rodents and hares in north temperate and arctic ecosystems. He is a professor emeritus of population ecology in the University of British Columbia and has served the institution for over two decades. 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”.

During the time Krebs worked in British Columbia and Northern Canada, he was able to transform the field of ecology from a descriptive science to an experimental discipline. For 20 years, he studied the 10-year population cycle of snowshoe hares and their predators in the Yukon. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for Science, has won multiple honors and awards and continues to be referred as one of the most influential scholars in his field.