Anne Elizabeth Magurran is a population biologist

Population biology

Population biology is a study of populations of organisms, especially the regulation of population size, life history traits such as clutch size, and extinction...

 at St. Andrews University in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Ulster and was a postdoctoral fellow at the universities of Bangor and Oxford. 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

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...

 and other leading biologists, including Helder Queiroz

Helder Queiroz

Helder Lima de Queiroz is a Brazilian conservation biologist, primatologist, and fish behaviorist. He is the Deputy Director of the Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá in Amazonas state, dedicated to protecting the biodiversity of the Amazon flood forest and the well-being of those...

, 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.