Claire Kremen is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
at University of California, Berkeley, and an Associate Conservationist
with the Wildlife Conservation Society. Her primary interest
is to use biological, social and economic data to develop
conservation plans that benefit both the environment and
people. Within conservation biology, she has studied
a wide array of topics, including the economics and ecology
of ecosystem services, sustainable forestry, ecology and
biogeography of tropical butterflies, population biology
of lemurs, and ecological monitoring. Her work reaches
from theory to practice and includes hands-on conservation
action. From 1993 –1997, she designed and helped
to establish Madagascar’s largest National Park on
the Masoala Peninsula. Her research since 199 has examined
the functional links between the spatial distribution of
wildlands, the composition of wild bee communities, farm
management practices, and the delivery of pollination services
to agriculture in California, and now includes similar studies
in New Jersey. She is leading a working group at the
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in
Santa Barbara that is using models and meta-analysis to predict
how to restore pollination services in degraded landscapes,
and is a member of a National Academy of Sciences study on
the status of pollinators in North America. She is
also working with a variety of organizations in Madagascar
to establish a national conservation-planning tool by accumulating
data on species occurrences, developing predictive models
of species distributions, and conducting conservation analyses. She
taught Conservation Biology as an Assistant Professor at
Princeton University from 2001-2005, and continues to teach
related topics now that she is at U C Berkeley.
She received her Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University in 1987
as an NSF and James B. Duke Fellow, and her B.Sc. in Biology
from Stanford University in 1982. She is a scientific advisor
for several conservation organizations and sits on the Editorial
Board of Conservation Biology. She is a 2001
recipient of the McDonnell 21st Century Research Award.
In September 2007, Dr. Kremen was named a 2007 MacArthur Fellow.
Selected publications since 2000:
Kremen C. and R. Ostfeld. 2005. A
call to ecologists: measuring, analyzing and managing ecosystem
services. Frontiers in Ecology: 3 (10): 540-548
Kremen, C. 2005. Managing for
ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology? Ecology
Letters, 8:468-479.
Larsen, T. H., N. M. Williams and C. Kremen.
2005. Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly
disrupt ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters, 8:538-547.
Balvanera, P., C. Kremen and M. Martinez.
2005. Applying community structure analysis to ecosystem
function: examples from pollination and carbon storage. Ecological
Applications, 15:360-375.
Kremen, C., N. M. Williams, R. L. Bugg, J. P. Fay and
R. W. Thorp. 2004. The area requirements of an ecosystem service: crop
pollination by native bee communities in California. Ecology Letters,
7:1109-1119.
Kremen, C. , Lees, D. C. and J. Fay. 2003. Butterflies
and conservation planning in Madagascar: from pattern to
practice. Pp 517-540 In Ecology and Evolution Taking
Flight: Butterflies as Model Systems (C. L.Boggs, W.
B. Watt, and P. R. Ehrlich, Eds.). University of Chicago
Press.
Kremen, C., N. M. Williams, and R. W. Thorp. 2002. Crop
pollination from native bees at risk from agricultural intensification. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 99:16812-16816.
Kremen, C. , Niles, J., Dalton, M., Daily,
G., Ehrlich, P., Fay, P., Grewal, D. and R. P. Guillery. 2000.
Economic incentives for forest conservation across scales. Science.
288:1828-1832.
Kremen, C. and T. Ricketts. 2000. Global
perspectives on pollination disruptions. Conservation
Biology, 14:1226-1228.
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