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Robert Desharnais
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston
University of Rhode Island
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology, ecology
InstitutionsCalifornia State University, Los Angeles
ThesisPopulation Dynamics and the Tribolium Model: Genetics and Demography (1982)
Doctoral advisorRobert F. Constantino

Robert Desharnais is an American evolutionary biologist who is an emeritus professor of biology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research area is population biology and ecology.[1]

Life

Desharnais studied biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. At the University of Rhode Island, in 1979, he earned a Master of Science degree in zoology, and in 1982 he received a Ph.D. in zoology.[2] His doctoral advisor was the population geneticist Robert F. Constantino.[3][4]

After finishing his graduate studies, from 1982 to 1983, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. From 1985 to 1987, he was a research associate at Rockefeller University, and from 1987 to 1988, he was an assistant professor] In 1988, he moved to Los Angeles, California to work as an assistant professor at California State University, Los Angeles, and in 1997, there he became full professor.[5] Desharnais is an emeritus professor of biology.[6]

Some of his research interests are theoretical biology, nonlinear population dynamics, chaos theory in population ecology, and the role of natural selection in population dynamics.[6]

Selected works

  • Cushing, J. M.; Costantino, Robert F.; Dennis, Brian; Desharnais, Robert; Henson, Shandelle Marie (2002). Chaos in Ecology: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-052887-8.[7]
  • Desharnais, Robert A., ed. (2005). Population Dynamics and Laboratory Ecology. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-013937-8.[8]

References

  1. ^ CSULA Biology Professor Robert Desharnais. interview. October 22, 2010.
  2. ^ "Robert A. Desharnais, Ph.D. - General|access". February 8, 2013. Archived from the original on November 8, 2002.
  3. ^ "Robert Desharnais reveals the process behind BiologyLabs On-Line.|access". February 8, 2013.
  4. ^ "Costantino Homepage|access". February 8, 2013. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014.
  5. ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE: Robert A. Desharnais" (PDF). February 25, 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Robert A. Desharnais | Cal State LA". Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  7. ^ Reviews of Chaos in Ecology:
    • Scheuring, István (2005). "Review of Chaos in Ecology. Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics (Theoretical Ecology Series)". Community Ecology. 6 (1): 115–116. ISSN 1585-8553. JSTOR 24113409.
    • Caswell, Hal (2003). "Models, Experiments, and Chaos". Ecology. 84 (10): 2804–2805. ISSN 0012-9658. JSTOR 3450124.
  8. ^ Reviews of Population Dynamics and Laboratory Ecology:
    • Leibold, Mathew A. (1992). "Beetle Model". Science. 256 (5065): 1838–1838. ISSN 0036-8075.
    • Wade, Michael (1993). "Review of Population Dynamics and the Tribolium Model: Genetics and Demography". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 68 (1): 106–106. ISSN 0033-5770. JSTOR 2832172.
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