John N. Thompson

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John Norton Thompson (born November 15, 1951 in Pittsburgh ) is an American evolutionary biologist .

Thompson graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received his PhD in ecology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977 . His dissertation was entitled Patch Dynamics in the Insect - Pastinaca Sativa Association: Life History Tactics and Population Consequences . Afterwards he was Visiting Assistant Professor for Entomology. In 1978 he became Assistant Professor, 1982 Associate Professor and 1987 Professor at Washington State University , where he was Edward Meyer Distinguished Professor from 1994. In 2000 he became Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz , where he was Director of the STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research from 2002 to 2007 and became a Distinguished Professor in 2008 and Jean H. Langeheim Professor of Plant Ecology and Evolution in 2014 .

In 1991/82 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia (Canberra). In 2014 he was a visiting fellow at Trinity College in Cambridge and in 2009/10 at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

He is known for research on coevolution .

In 2017 he received the Darwin Wallace Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the California Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Entomological Society of London . In 2008 he was President of the American Society of Naturalists . He is one of the ISI Highly Cited Researchers in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology.

Fonts (selection)

Books:

  • Relentless Evolution, University of Chicago Press 2013
  • The geographic mosaic of coevolution, University of Chicago Press 2005
  • The coevolutionary process, University of Chicago Press 1994
  • Interaction and coevolution, University of Chicago Press 1982, 2nd edition 2014

Some essays:

  • with STA Pickett: Patch dynamics and the design of nature reserves, Biological Conservation, Volume 13, 1978, pp. 27-37
  • with MF Wilson: Evolution of temperate fruit / bird interactions: phenological strategies, Evolution, 1979, pp. 973-982
  • with EW Price u. a .: Interactions among three trophic levels: influence of plants on interactions between insect herbivores and natural enemies, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 11, 1980, pp. 41-65
  • with RN Mack: Evolution in steppe with few large, hooved mammals, The American Naturalist, Volume 119, 1982, pp. 757-773
  • with DA Pyke: Statistical analysis of survival and removal rate experiments, Ecology, Volume 67, 1986, pp. 240-245
  • with PW Price u. a .: Parasite mediation in ecological interactions, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 17, 1986, pp. 487-505
  • Evolutionary ecology of the relationship between oviposition preference and performance of offspring in phytophagous insects, Entomologia experimentalis et applicata, Volume 47, 1988, pp. 3-14
  • Variation in interspecific interactions ,. Annual review of ecology and systematics, Volume 19, 1988, pp. 65-87
  • with O. Pellmyr: Evolution of oviposition behavior and host preference in Lepidoptera, Annual review of entomology, Volume 36, 1991, pp. 65-89
  • with JJ Burdon: Gene-for-gene coevolution between plants and parasites, Nature, Volume 360, 1992, pp. 121-125
  • Rapid evolution as an ecological process, Trends in Ecology & Evolution Volume 13, 1998, pp. 329-332
  • Specific hypotheses on the geographic mosaic of coevolution, The American Naturalist, Volume 153, 1999, S1-S14
  • The evolution of species interactions, Science, Vol. 284, 1999, pp. 2116-2118
  • with AK Sakai u. a .: The population biology of invasive species, Annual review of ecology and systematics, Volume 32, 2001, pp. 305-332
  • with BM Cunningham: Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selection, Nature, Volume 417, 2002, p. 735
  • with Douglas Soltis , Pamela Soltis , DW Schemske, JF Hancock: Autopolyploidy in angiosperms: have we grossly underestimated the number of species?, Taxon, Volume 56, 2007, pp. 13-30

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, John N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, John Norton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evolutionary biologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh