Gregor Yeates
1944-2012
Rev. 12/01/2020
Gregor Yeates was born in After completing his Ph.D.,
Dr. Yeates spent a year in the Nematology Department at Rothamsted
Experimental Station in
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Dr. Yeates has been an extremely
productive scientist with over 200 scientific papers and at least the same
number of conference papers and reports. Within the field of soil ecology, he
has published extensively on nematode community structures and the influence of
environmental and management effects upon them. Many of his field observations
and assessments have led to descriptions of new species of nematodes.
Dr. Yeates’ studies have
contributed to greater understanding of the role of nematodes in
soil ecosystems. The publication record reveals a pattern of system-specific
faunal analyses followed by taxonomic descriptions and then synoptic papers of
nematode survival, feeding habits, niche dimension, invasion biology or
ecosystem services.
In the course of his ecological
studies, Gregor Yeates has described 105 new species in a number of unrelated
genera, e.g., Longidorus, Xiphinema, Hemicycliophora, Trischistoma,
Dorylaimellus and Iotonchus.
Gregor Yeates has studied the
ecology of nematodes, and other soil organisms, in environments ranging from
Antarctica to northern
Dr. Yeates has served on the
editorial boards of several ecological and nematological journals and is a
member of several societies including the New Zealand Society for
Parasitologists, of which he was president. Dr. Yeates was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of New Zealand (1998) and a Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Soil
Science (1995).
In 2007, Dr. Gregor Yeates was
named Fellow of the Society of Nematologists.