كارولين كينج (عالمة حيوان)
كارولين كينگ | |
|---|---|
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| أسماء أخرى | Carolyn Mary King |
| المدرسة الأم | جامعة أكسفورد |
| السيرة العلمية | |
| أطروحة | |
| المشرف على الدكتوراه | Henry Neville Southern |
Carolyn Mary King FRSNZ is a New Zealand zoologist specialising in mammals, particularly small rodents and mustelids. She is currently a professor of biological sciences at the University of Waikato.[1]
Career
King got her first PhD in Zoology from the University of Oxford entitled 'Studies on the ecology of the weasel (Mustela nivalis L.)' studying under ornithologist Henry Neville Southern, before moving to DSIR's Ecology Division and from there to the University of Waikato, where she rose to full professor.[2]
She won the New Zealand Ecology Society Te Tohu Taiao Award for Ecological Excellence in 1999.[3] In 2018, King was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[4]
She received her second PhD (this time in theology) from the University of Waikato entitled: 'Habitat of Grace - Biology, Christianity and the Global Environmental Crisis'.
In 2025, King was awarded the Thomson Medal of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.[5]
Selected works
- Carolyn M. King (2005). The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-558477-6.
- Carolyn M. King; Roger A. Powell (2007). The Natural History of Weasels and Stoats: Ecology, Behavior, and Management. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-530056-7.
- Carolyn M. King (1984). Immigrant Killers: Introduced Predators and the Conservation of Birds in New Zealand. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-558121-8.
- King, CM (1983). "The relationships between beech (Nothofagus sp.) seedfall and populations of mice (Mus musculus), and the demographic and dietary responses of stoats (Mustela erminea), in three New Zealand forests". The Journal of Animal Ecology. 52 (1): 141–166. doi:10.2307/4593. JSTOR 4593.
References
- ^ "Carolyn King - Staff Profiles : University of Waikato". Waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ "Carolyn M King | The University of Waikato, Hamilton | on ResearchGate | Expertise: Ecology, Zoology". researchgate.net. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ "Te Tohu Taiao - Award for Ecological Excellence | NZES". Newzealandecology.org. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ "Centenary cohort of Fellows announced". Royal Society of New Zealand. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "2025 Thomson Medal: A life's work on stoats". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
External links
- كارولين كينج publications indexed by Google Scholar
- institutional homepage
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- Living people
- New Zealand women academics
- 20th-century New Zealand zoologists
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Academic staff of the University of Waikato
- People associated with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)
- Mammalogists
- Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- Year of birth missing (living people)