:Carolyn King (zoologist)
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| other_names = Carolyn Mary King
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| alma_mater = University of Oxford
| thesis1_title = Studies on the ecology of the weasel (Mustela nivalis L.)
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| thesis1_year = 1971
| doctoral_advisor = Henry Neville Southern
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Carolyn Mary King {{post-nominals|country=NZL|FRSNZ}} is a New Zealand zoologist specialising in mammals, particularly small rodents and mustelids. She is currently a professor of biological sciences at the University of Waikato.{{cite web |url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/cmking |title=Carolyn King - Staff Profiles : University of Waikato |publisher=Waikato.ac.nz |date= |accessdate=2017-12-13}}
Career
King got her first PhD in Zoology from the University of Oxford entitled 'Studies on the ecology of the weasel (Mustela nivalis L.)' studying under ornithologist Henry Neville Southern, before moving to DSIR's Ecology Division and from there to the University of Waikato, where she rose to full professor.{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carolyn_King4 |title=Carolyn M King | The University of Waikato, Hamilton | on ResearchGate | Expertise: Ecology, Zoology |website=researchgate.net |accessdate=2017-12-13}}
She won the New Zealand Ecology Society Te Tohu Taiao Award for Ecological Excellence in 1999.{{cite web |url=http://newzealandecology.org/awards-grants/te-tohu-taiao |title=Te Tohu Taiao - Award for Ecological Excellence | NZES |publisher=Newzealandecology.org |date=2017-06-30 |accessdate=2017-12-13}} In 2018, King was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/centenary-cohort-of-fellows-announced/ |title=Centenary cohort of Fellows announced |date=1 November 2018 |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |accessdate=21 November 2018}}
She received her second PhD (this time in theology) from the University of Waikato entitled: 'Habitat of Grace - Biology, Christianity and the Global Environmental Crisis'.
Selected works
- {{cite book |author=Carolyn M. King |title=The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI-xQgAACAAJ |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-558477-6}}
- {{cite book |author1=Carolyn M. King |author2=Roger A. Powell |title=The Natural History of Weasels and Stoats: Ecology, Behavior, and Management |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=In48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR4 |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-530056-7}}
- {{cite book |author=Carolyn M. King |title=Immigrant Killers: Introduced Predators and the Conservation of Birds in New Zealand |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJMKAQAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-558121-8}}
- {{cite journal |title=The relationships between beech (Nothofagus sp.) seedfall and populations of mice (Mus musculus), and the demographic and dietary responses of stoats (Mustela erminea), in three New Zealand forests |last1=King |first1=CM |journal=The Journal of Animal Ecology |volume=52 |pages=141–166 |year=1983|issue=1 |doi=10.2307/4593 |jstor=4593 }}
References
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External links
- {{Google Scholar|bjrIhOsAAAAJ}}
- [http://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/cmking institutional homepage]
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Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:20th-century New Zealand zoologists
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Academic staff of the University of Waikato
Category:People associated with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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