2026 Charles J. Krebs: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	101	267	252	18	16	391	38835

Research.com Recognitions

1979 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Charles J. Krebs is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology, which constitutes the largest subfield of their work. Additional subfields include Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and studies involving Small Animals.

The scientist's research covers a variety of main topics, such as:

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
Rangeland and Wildlife Management
Plant and animal studies

Recent publications feature several notable papers published between 2020 and 2023, including:

"Climate change increases predation risk for a keystone species of the boreal forest," 2020, Nature Climate Change
"Does coat colour influence survival? A test in a cyclic population of snowshoe hares," 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
"Prey availability and ambient temperature influence carrion persistence in the boreal forest," 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
"Broad-scale climate variation drives the dynamics of animal populations: a global multi-taxa analysis," 2022, Biological Reviews
"Demography of snowshoe hare population cycles," 2020, Ecology

Charles J. Krebs has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Rudy Boonstra
Alice J. Kenney
Stan Boutin
Thomas S. Jung
Dennis L. Murray

Their work has appeared primarily in these publication venues:

Integrative Zoology
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Ecology
Canadian Journal of Zoology

Charles J. Krebs was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1979, under the Academy of Science category.

Best Publications

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

Charles Joseph Krebs

6066
Citations
Population Cycles in Small Mammals

Charles J. Krebs;Judith H. Myers

1147
Citations
Demographic Changes in Fluctuating Populations of Microtus californicus

Charles J. Krebs

1116
Citations
Impact of food and predation on the snowshoe hare cycle.

Charles J. Krebs;Stan Boutin;Rudy Boonstra;A. R. E. Sinclair

862
Citations
Microtus Population Biology: Demographic Changes in Fluctuating Populations of M. Ochrogaster and M. Pennsylvanicus in Southern Indiana

Charles J. Krebs;Barry L. Keller;Robert H. Tamarin

739
Citations
The sensitive hare: sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares.

Michael J. Sheriff;Michael J. Sheriff;Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra

581
Citations
Population Cycles in Small Rodents

Charles J. Krebs;Michael S. Gaines;Barry L. Keller;Judith H. Myers

493
Citations
Field methods for rodent studies in Asia and the Indo-Pacific

Ken P. Aplin;Peter R. Brown;Jens Jacob;Charles J. Krebs

488
Citations
What Drives the 10-year Cycle of Snowshoe Hares?

Charles J. Krebs;Rudy Boonstra;Stan Boutin

476
Citations
Population Cycles Revisited

Charles J. Krebs

461
Citations
A review of the Chitty Hypothesis of population regulation

Charles J. Krebs

400
Citations
Ecosystem dynamics of the boreal forest: the Kluane project.

Charles J. Krebs;Stan A. Boutin;Rudy Boonstra

389
Citations
Genetic, Behavioral, and Reproductive Attributes of Dispersing Field Voles Microtus pennsylvanicus and Microtus ochrogaster

Judith H. Myers;Charles J. Krebs

371
Citations
Predation and Population Cycles of Small Mammals A reassessment of the predation hypothesis

Erkki Korpimäki;Charles J. Krebs

370
Citations
One hundred years of eruptions of house mice in Australia: a natural biological curio

Grant R. Singleton;Peter R. Brown;Roger P. Pech;Jens Jacob

347
Citations
Population regulation in snowshoe hare and Canadian lynx: Asymmetric food web configurations between hare and lynx

Nils Chr. Stenseth;Wilhelm Falck;Ottar N. Bjørnstad;Charles J. Krebs

343
Citations
Newly discovered landscape traps produce regime shifts in wet forests

David B. Lindenmayer;Richard J. Hobbs;Gene E. Likens;Charles J. Krebs

343
Citations
FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES OF COYOTES AND LYNX TO THE SNOWSHOE HARE CYCLE

Mark O’Donoghue;Stan Boutin;Charles J. Krebs;Gustavo Zuleta

340
Citations
On the reliability of enumeration for mark and recapture census of voles

Ray Hilborn;James A. Redfield;Charles J. Krebs

336
Citations
The balance of nature? Ecological issues in the conservation of species and communities

Charles J. Krebs

60
Citations
Population ecology of individuals: By Adam Lomnicki. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1988). Pp. x+223. Price $45.00 hardback, $13.95 paperback

Charles J. Krebs

15
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudy Boonstra University of Toronto

Stan Boutin University of Alberta

Anthony R. E. Sinclair University of British Columbia

Michael J. Sheriff University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Grant R. Singleton University of Greenwich

Gilles Gauthier Université Laval

Nils Chr. Stenseth University of Oslo

Dominique Berteaux Université du Québec à Rimouski

Xavier Lambin University of Aberdeen

Benjamin Gilbert University of Toronto

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