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Kai Chan
Kai Ming Adam Chan is a Canadian ecologist and professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a faculty member at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Re-Wilding and Social-Ecological Transformation. Chan's work focuses on applied ecology, sustainability science, and environmental ethics. Education Chan earned a BSc in Ecology from the University of Toronto in 1997. He later attended Princeton University, where he received a MA in 1999 and a PhD in 2003 in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. His doctoral dissertation, titled ''The Effects of Slightly Leaky Prezygotic Isolating Barriers and the Use of Phylogenetic Tree Shape to Study Diversification'', was supervised by Simon A. Levin. Research interests Chan’s research examines the interactions between human societies and ecological systems, with an emphasis on sustainability and conservation. His work has contributed to the study of ecosyste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecology
Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely related sciences of biogeography, evolutionary biology, genetics, ethology, and natural history. Ecology is a branch of biology, and is the study of abundance (ecology), abundance, biomass (ecology), biomass, and distribution of organisms in the context of the environment. It encompasses life processes, interactions, and adaptations; movement of materials and energy through living communities; ecological succession, successional development of ecosystems; cooperation, competition, and predation within and between species; and patterns of biodiversity and its effect on ecosystem processes. Ecology has practical applications in fields such as conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
