Anurag Agrawal (ecologist)
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Anurag Agrawal | |
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Born | 1972 |
Known for | Studies of plant-animal interactions, especially milkweeds and monarch butterflies |
Awards | Ecological Society of America, R.H. MacArthur Award |
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Institutions | Cornell University |
Anurag Agrawal (born 1972) is an American professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and entomology who has written over a 150 peer-reviewed articles, which earned him an h-index of 84. He is the author of a popular science book, Monarchs and Milkweeds from Princeton University Press, and is currently the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University.
Life[]
Agrawal was born in 1972 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He obtained both BA (Biology) and MA (Conservation Biology) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania after working with Daniel Janzen. In 1999 he earned a Ph.D. in population biology from the University of California, Davis working with . He then became a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam. A year later he became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the former Department of Botany, and since 2004 he is professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Entomology at Cornell University.[1] He publishes with a fictitious middle initial (A.) and is sometime confused with Canadian Evolutionary Biologist, Aneil Agrawal.
Research[]
His work is focused on the ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions, including aspects of herbivory, community ecology, phenotypic plasticity, chemical ecology, coevolution, and phylogenetics. His current research includes work on NY State biodiversity, the ecology of invasive plants, the biology of monarch butterflies, and the evolution of plant defense strategies. In addition to many scientific papers, his recent book Monarchs and Milkweeds has received acclaim from a wide audience [1], including the National Outdoor Book Award.
Awards[]
1999 Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists
2004 Early Career Award, National Science Foundation
2006 , Ecological Society of America
2009 David Starr Jordan Prize [1]
2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2013 Founders Memorial Award, Entomological Society of America
2016 Robert H. MacArthur Award, Ecological Society of America[2]
2017 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
2018 Silverstein-Simeone Lecture Award, International Society for Chemical Ecology
2019 Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award [2]
2021 Member of the National Academy of Sciences[3]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Anurag Agrawal". David Starr Jordan. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ^ "All Awards Table". ESA. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members — Including a Record Number of Women — and International Members". nasonline.org. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
External links[]
- 1972 births
- Living people
- American ecologists
- Ecologists
- Chemical ecologists
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- University of California, Davis alumni
- Cornell University faculty
- University of Amsterdam faculty
- Writers from Allentown, Pennsylvania
- American academics of Indian descent
- Fellows of the Ecological Society of America
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences