Rate My Professor Carolyn King

King's research has profoundly impacted conservation biology in New Zealand, elucidating stoat population irruptions triggered by beech (Nothofagus sp.) seedfalls, the invasion history of introduced predators, and strategies for managing these pests in pursuit of Predator Free 2050 goals. She has authored or co-authored over 200 publications, amassing more than 5,500 citations, including seminal books such as Immigrant Killers: Introduced Predators and the Conservation of Birds in New Zealand (1984), The Natural History of Weasels and Stoats: Ecology, Behavior, and Management (2007, co-authored with Roger A. Powell), The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals (third edition, 2021, co-edited with David Forsyth and published by CSIRO Publishing and Otago University Press), and Invasive Predators in New Zealand: Disaster on Four Small Paws (2019). Her work also extends to biotheology, exploring compatibilities between biology, Christianity, and environmental ethics, as in her book King: An Unnecessary War (2023). King received the New Zealand Ecology Society Te Tohu Taiao Award for Ecological Excellence in 1999, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (FRSNZ) in 2018, won the Whitley Book Award for the best zoology handbook in 2021, and was awarded the Thomson Medal in 2025. She served as Senior Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology and has influenced public discourse on invasive species management.