Charles Krebs

Charley Krebs
Born	(1936-09-17) 17 September 1936 (age 80) St. Louis, Missouri
Residence	Mayne Island, British Columbia
Fields	Population ecology
Institutions	University of British Columbia University of Canberra
Alma mater	University of Minnesota University of British Columbia
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
Influenced	Stan Boutin
Spouse	Alice
Children	2
Website http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~krebs/

Charles Joseph Krebs FRSC FAA FRZS (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.