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Name
  
Robert Ricklefs


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Born
  
June 6, 1943 (age 80) (
1943-06-06
)

Institutions
  
University of Missouri, St. Louis Stanford University

Alma mater
  
University of Pennsylvania

Thesis
  
The Significance of Growth Patterns in Birds (1967)

Notable awards
  
Sewall Wright Award (2005) National Academy of Sciences (2008) Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology (2015)

Education
  
University of Pennsylvania (1963–1967), Stanford University (1959–1963)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
The Economy of Nature, Ecology: the Economy, Ecology: The Economy, Ecology, Aging: A Natural History

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Dr Robert Eric Ricklefs is an American ornithologist and ecologist. He is the Curators' Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

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Education

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Born in 1943, he graduated with an Bachelor of Science from Stanford University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. He completed a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute before taking up a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the 1982 recipient of the American Ornithologists' Union's William Brewster Memorial Award, the union's most prestigious award given annually for an exceptional body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere. In 2003, he received the Pacific Seabird Group's Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on growth and development in seabirds. He was awarded the 2003 Margaret Morse Nice Medal by the Wilson Ornithological Society. He was the 2006 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.

Research

During his career he has made major contributions to the island biogeography, including testing E. O. Wilson's Taxon Cycle Concept. His most-cited scientific paper examined ecological communities. Recent work has sought to rescale the concept of an ecological community. His textbook "Ecology" was first published in 1973. He has also published a textbook titled The Economy of Nature

Awards

  • 2009: Dr. Ricklefs was inducted member of the National Academy of Sciences April 28, 2009.
  • 2015: Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology
  • Career

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 1968-1972
  • Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-1978
  • Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 1978-1995
  • Curators’ Professor, Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1995-.
  • References

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