Anne E. Magurran

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name = Anne Elizabeth Magurran


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birth_date = 1955
birth_place = UK
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residence = Scotland
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fields = Population biology
workplaces = St. Andrews University
alma_mater = D.Phil., University of Ulster
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known_for = Brushing off Piranha attacks
as toothless folklore
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awards = Scientific Medal, Zoological
Society of London (1994)
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Anne Elizabeth Magurran is a population biologist at St. Andrews University in Scotland. She is the author of several important books on biological diversity and its quantification, as essential for biological conservation.

She has worked with Robert May and other leading biologists, including Helder Queiroz, whom she advised. Her projects are on tropical freshwater fish communities in the Neotropics and India.

Publications

* Magurran, A. E. "Ecological diversity and its measurement".
* Magurran, A. E. 2004. "Measuring biological diversity". Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-632-05633-9
* Magurran, A. E. & R. M. May (eds.). 1999. "Evolution of Biological Diversity". Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850304-0.

External links

"Magurran, Anne E." Homepage at St. Andrews University: [http://biology.st-and.ac.uk/sites/guppy/]