Dolph Schluter

Dolph Schluter (born May 22, 1955 in Dorval , Québec ) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist who teaches and researches at the University of British Columbia . His scientific focus is on the interrelationships of evolution , such as adaptive radiation , which he researches mainly using the example of the three-spined stickleback . He is a member of the Royal Society , the Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Career

Dolph Schluter was born in Dorval as the son of Dutch emigrants . He attended the University of Guelph in Guelph , Ontario , where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 1977 . He then continued his education in ecology and evolution at the University of Michigan , where he received his Ph.D. in 1983 with a thesis on Darwin's finches and their beak shapes. attained. After completing his doctorate , Schluter briefly worked as a post-doc at the University of California, Davis , before returning to his Canadian homeland and taking a position at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver . There he was promoted to assistant professor in 1989 , before receiving a full professorship in 1996, which he still holds today. He also pushed the establishment of the Biodiversity Research Center , as its director from 2003 to 2007. Schluter has also been established as the Canada Research Chair since 2001 .

In the field of evolutionary biology, Schluter mainly deals with the context of adaptive radiation . At the beginning of his career he mainly focused on Darwin's finches and other bird species, while later he mainly turned to the three-spined stickleback . He investigates experimentally how factors such as competition or predator-prey relationships affect interspecific differences. Another focus of his scientific work is the long-term observation of individual species under the influence of factors such as isolation and gene flow . In addition, there is a cooperation with Stanford University and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , with which the genetic basis of species differences is researched.

Schluter is a member of the American Society of Naturalists and the Society for the Study of Evolution and has served as president of both. He also received the 2007 Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists . In 1999 he was elected to the Royal Society , and in 2001 he was appointed to the Royal Society of Canada . From 2003 to 2004 he was a Guggenheim Fellow before being accepted as an honorary external member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. In 2014 Schluter also received the Darwin Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London , and in 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Schluter is married and has one daughter.

Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press , Chicago, 1993, ISBN 978-0-226-71822-4 .
The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation. Oxford University Press , Oxford, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-850523-5 .
Speciation and Patterns of Diversity. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-88318-4 .
The Analysis of Biological Data. Roberts & Company, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 2015 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-1-936221-48-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schluter, Dolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schluter, D .; Schlueter, Dolph; Schlueter, D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian evolutionary biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dorval , Quebec , Canada