Kornelis "Kees" Bakker (28 April 1931,

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– 3 November 2010,

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) was Professor at

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Faculty of Ecology During his PhD research he studied the intra and inter specific competition of

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in detailed lab experiments. After his postdoc period in Silwood Park (Imperial College of London) he returned to Leiden. There he conducted a research program on parasite-host relations, with evolutionairy-ecological subjects like competition, host selection, parasital behaviour, parasital defense systems, optimized food collection behaviour and sex ratio-evolution. He was a member of the

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

since 1982 and the

Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen The ''Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen'' (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities), located on the east side of the Spaarne in downtown Haarlem, Netherlands, was established in 1752 and is the oldest society for the ...

, Honorary Member of the

British Ecological Society The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913. It is the oldest ecological society in the world. The Society's original objective was "to promote and foster the study of Ecology in its widest ...

and of the Nederlandse Ecologen Vereniging.

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1931 births 2010 deaths Dutch ecologists Dutch zoologists Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Leiden University Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Winterswijk {{Netherlands-scientist-stub