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Robert Poulin

Robert Poulin is an evolutionary ecologist specialising in the ecology of parasitism. He is a professor of zoology at the University of Otago and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Biography[edit]

Poulin grew up in Canada, taking his bachelor's degree in aquatic biology at McGill University, Montreal and gaining his doctorate at Université Laval, Quebec City. He became a researcher in Quebec.^[1] He moved to New Zealand in 1992, where he is a professor of zoology, leading a research group studying the ecologyofparasites at the University of Otago.^[2]

He has written numerous papers and book chapters: his Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites has been cited at least 2500 times; his co-written Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links has been cited over 990 times; his The diversity of parasites has been cited over 760 times; his Parasite Biodiversity and Parasitism and group size in social animals: a meta-analysis have each been cited over 600 times; 14 other works have been cited over 300 times each. In all he has been cited over 44,000 times, with an h-index over 105 and an i10-index over 550.^[3]

Poulin is married with two sons.^[1]

Awards and distinctions[edit]

Poulin became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2001, and won the New Zealand Association of Scientists' Research Medal the same year.^[1] In 2002 he was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.^[1] In 2007 he won the Robert Arnold Wardle Award of the Canadian Society of Zoologists.^[1] In 2011 he won the Hutton Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[1] He was awarded the University of Otago's Distinguished Research Medal in 2013.^[1]

The North African tortoise pinworm Tachygonetria poulini is named for him,^[1] as is the New Zealand parasitic fluke Maritrema poulini,^[4] and the parasitic cryptogonimid trematode Siphoderina poulini.^[5]

Books[edit]

Authored[edit]

• Poulin, R., & Morand, S. (2004). Parasite biodiversity. Smithsonian Books.
• Poulin, R. (2004). Going in circles: the complex transmission routes of parasites. University of Otago.
• Poulin, R. (2011) [1998]. Evolutionary ecology of parasites (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. (1st ed. Chapman and Hall)

Edited[edit]

• 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[edit]

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