Fields Zoology Academic advisor Nikolaas Tinbergen | Doctoral advisor Niko Tinbergen Field Zoology | |
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Residence Steveston, British Columbia, Canada Books Serengeti Story: Life and Scie, Wildlife Ecology - Conserva, Wildlife Ecology and Man, The African Buffalo: A Study of Similar Graeme James Caughley, Craig Packer, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Stan Boutin, Charles Krebs | ||
Anthony Ronald Entrican Sinclair (born March 25, 1944) FRSC FRS is a professor emeritus of zoology at the University of British Columbia.
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Education and early life
Sinclair spent his early childhood in the African bush in Tanzania, where his love for Africa and animals led him to study for degrees in zoology at Pembroke College, Oxford. Research into the ecology of African Buffalo for his doctoral thesis was supervised by Hugh Lamprey.
Research and career
Sinclair is an ecologist and leading authority on the ecology, population dynamics and community structures of large mammals. His work is of importance for the management and conservation of the environment in Africa, North America and Australia. He is particularly interested in the areas of predator sensitive foraging, predator–prey theory, migration and the regulation of populations.
By conducting long-term research on large mammals in the Mara–Serengeti ecosystem and elsewhere in East Africa, Sinclair showed the ways in which different animal populations are regulated. He has also investigated how plant-eating animals are able to co-exist with each other, even when they have overlapping food sources.
Awards and honours
In 1996, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2002.