LONG CITATION
Professor Peter Abrams is a mathematical theoretician who has made influential, widely cited contributions to our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary relationships of interacting species within natural communities. He has shown that even simple models can produce diverse and surprising outcomes, thereby revising or refining a number of conventionally accepted generalizations about communities, both natural and human-managed. These include: competition for resources and the concept of limiting ecological similarity; patterns of coevolutionary changes in competitors, predators, and prey; aging, senescence, and mortality; and effects on population dynamics that are mediated by indirect interactions in multispecies communities.

SHORT CITATION
Professor Peter Abrams has revolutionized our understanding of how species interact. He has used predictive mathematical models of interaction between species and how they interact with their environment. The outcome of his remarkable contributions has been a rethinking of our assumptions about natural and human-managed communities.