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the widely known "Fence Effect". Within a year of living in the fenced area the voles had increased by about five times, which is much more than they would in an unfenced area. He then observed that the population experienced a crash, just like the unfenced populations do. Krebs believed this was due to social behaviour among the voles and could be applied to other animals like them. The voles had no place to migrate therefore the final crash seemed to stem from an increase of competition, aggressive behaviour, and decreased resources.
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snowshoe hares and their predators in the Yukon. He found that the population size of the snowshoe hares is regulated by predators such as the lynx, coyote, great horned owls and goshawks. 90% of their deaths were found to be due to these predators and almost none because of starvation and disease.
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Krebs was interested mostly in smaller mammal ecology and in 1965 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. This was when he founded
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Krebs also worked in British Columbia and Northern Canada for over 40 years to look at cyclic populations of mammals. during this time 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
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If someone asks me if my work has economic benefit I say absolutely none. And then they ask 'well why are you doing it' and I say that we need to understand the world we live in. It enriches our lives.
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Department of Zoology. He is also Thinker-in-residence at the Institute for Applied Ecology at the
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Charles Krebs, Q&A: Dr. Charles Krebs on a lifetime of science, Canadian Geographic
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A summary of Krebs work and his influence on students and colleagues (
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1. Ecological Society of America. 2002. Eminent Ecologist Award.
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Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance
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Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance
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http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=11
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During his career, Krebs made the case for basic research.
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http://www.esa.org/history/Awards/bulletin/eminent2002.pdf
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The lemming cycle at Baker Lake, N.W.T., during 1959-61
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Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
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St. Louis, Missouri
University of Minnesota
University of British Columbia
Population ecology
University of British Columbia
University of Canberra
Thesis
The lemming cycle at Baker Lake, N.W.T., during 1959-61
Doctoral advisor
Dennis Chitty
Ian McTaggart-Cowan
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~krebs/
FRSC
FAA
FRZS
professor emeritus
population ecology
University of British Columbia
University of Canberra
fence effect
Judith H. Myers
Stan Boutin
Rudy Boonstra
Tony Sinclair
"Krebs´ ecologists: on population regulation"
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
University of Helsinki
University of Lund
CSIRO

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