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dr Karol Zub is an Associate Professor at the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a world-leading expert in weasel ecology. His research bridges fundamental ecological theory with applied wildlife management and conservation.

His main research interests include the ecology, physiology, genetics and population dynamics of small mustelids and their prey species, with particular emphasis on: energy expenditure; effect of body mass and metabolic rates variation on winter survival; quantitative genetics (heritability of body mass and metabolic rates); genetic structures of small mammal populations; and population dynamics of weasels and voles. His current work also focuses on the eradication of stoats from the Orkney Islands.

Karol is the author or co-author of over 70 scientific papers, book chapters and technical reports and he is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Mammal Research.

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