Robert Poulin is an evolutionary ecologist specialising in the ecology of parasitism. He is a professor of zoology at the

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and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Biography

Poulin grew up in Canada, taking his bachelor's degree in aquatic biology at

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, Montreal and gaining his doctorate at

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, Quebec City. He became a researcher in Quebec. He moved to New Zealand in 1992, where he is a professor of zoology, leading a research group studying

parasite Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...

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. He has written numerous papers and book chapters: his ''Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites'' has been cited at least 2272 times; his co-written ''Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links'' has been cited over 800 times; his ''Parasite Biodiversity'' and five other works have each been cited over 500 times; 12 other works have been cited over 250 times each. In all he has been cited at least 39,900 times, with an

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of 101 and an

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of 515. Poulin is married with two sons.

Awards and distinctions

Poulin became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2001, and won the

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' Research Medal the same year. In 2002 he was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship by the

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. In 2007 he won the Robert Arnold Wardle Award of the Canadian Society of Zoologists. In 2011 he won the

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of the

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. He was awarded the University of Otago's Distinguished Research Medal in 2013. The North African tortoise

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'' Tachygonetria poulini'' is named for him.

Books

Authored

* Poulin, R., & Morand, S. (2004). ''Parasite biodiversity''. Smithsonian Books. * Poulin, R. (2011)

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''Evolutionary ecology of parasites'' (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. (1st ed. Chapman and Hall)

Edited

* Poulin, R., Morand, S., & Skorping, A. (Eds.). (2000). ''Evolutionary Biology of Host-Parasite Relationships: Theory meets Reality''. Elsevier. * Poulin, R. (Ed.). (2002). ''Parasitology – Parasites in Marine Systems'' (Supplement, No. 124, Parasitology). Cambridge University Press. * Morand, S., Krasnov, B. R., & Poulin, R. (Eds.). (2006). ''Micromammals and macroparasites: From evolutionary ecology to management''. Springer, 647p.

References

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