Eric Charnov
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Eric L. Charnov is an American theoretical ecologist at the University of New Mexico. He is best known for his work on foraging, especially the marginal value theorem, and life history theory, especially sex allocation and scaling/allometric rules. About 30 of his publications have been cited at least a hundred times, 10 over 340 times, and three have been cited over 1400 times. He was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1997[1].
Charnov gained his PhD in evolutionary ecology from the University of Washington in 1973. He has been a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico since 1998.
He lists his research interests as:
Metabolic ecology: temperature and body size in the determination of biological times and rates; Evolutionary ecology: population genetics, [evolutionary] game theory, and optimization models to understand the evolution of life histories, kin selection, communication, sex allocation, sexual selection, and foraging decisions.
[edit] Bibliography
- Charnov, E.L. 1993. Life History Invariants. Oxford University Press, 167 pp.
- Charnov, E.L. 1982. The Theory of Sex Allocation. Princeton University Press, 355 pp
[edit] References
- ^ Fellows List at www.macfound.org
