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Dolph Schluter publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dolph Schluter sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 225 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Dolph Schluter D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dolph Schluter sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 102 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Dolph Schluter is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed to the fields of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, environmental science, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, and molecular biology.

The main topics in Schluter's work encompass genetic diversity and population structure, plant and animal studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, animal behavior and reproduction, fish ecology and management studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Schluter's recent papers include:

  • Three problems in the genetics of speciation by selection, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Fitness maps to a large-effect locus in introduced stickleback populations, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Additional notable publications where Schluter is not the primary author but is related to coauthors in the field include:

  • Patterns, Predictors, and Consequences of Dominance in Hybrids, 2020, The American Naturalist
  • On the Origin of Coexisting Species, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Frequent coauthors working with Schluter are:

  • Ken Thompson
  • Benjamin G. Freeman
  • Jonathan Rolland
  • Stephanie A. Blain
  • Marius Roesti

Publication venues where Schluter frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Naturalist
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology Letters

Career recognition includes several fellowships:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 1999
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science, 2001
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2003
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012

Best Publications

  • The ecology of adaptive radiation

    Dolph Schluter

  • Adaptation from standing genetic variation

    Rowan D.H. Barrett;Dolph Schluter

  • Ecology and the origin of species

    Dolph Schluter

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and geographical perspectives.

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Dolph Schluter

  • Evidence for Ecological Speciation and Its Alternative

    Dolph Schluter

  • Widespread Parallel Evolution in Sticklebacks by Repeated Fixation of Ectodysplasin Alleles

    Pamela F. Colosimo;Kim E. Hosemann;Sarita Balabhadra;Guadalupe Villarreal

  • Adaptive radiation along genetic lines of least resistance

    Dolph Schluter

  • Adaptive Evolution of Pelvic Reduction in Sticklebacks by Recurrent Deletion of a Pitx1 Enhancer

    Yingguang Frank Chan;Melissa E. Marks;Felicity C. Jones;Guadalupe Villarreal

  • Does evolutionary theory need a rethink

    Kevin Laland;Tobias Uller;Marc Feldman;Kim Sterelny

  • Ecological character displacement and speciation in sticklebacks.

    Dolph Schluter;John Donald McPhail

  • LIKELIHOOD OF ANCESTOR STATES IN ADAPTIVE RADIATION.

    Dolph Schluter;Trevor Price;Arne Ø. Mooers;Donald Ludwig

  • Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks

    Michael D. Shapiro;Melissa E. Marks;Catherine L. Peichel;Benjamin K. Blackman

  • Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data.

    Luke J Harmon;Luke J Harmon;Jonathan B Losos;T Jonathan Davies;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • Calibrating the avian molecular clock

    J. T. Weir;D. Schluter

  • ESTIMATING THE FORM OF NATURAL SELECTION ON A QUANTITATIVE TRAIT.

    Dolph Schluter

  • Natural Selection and Parallel Speciation in Sympatric Sticklebacks

    Howard D. Rundle;Laura Nagel;Janette Wenrick Boughman;Dolph Schluter

  • Ecological Character Displacement in Adaptive Radiation

    Dolph Schluter

  • A Variance Test for Detecting Species Associations, with Some Example Applications

    Dolph Schluter

  • Genetics and ecological speciation.

    Dolph Schluter;Gina L. Conte

  • Analysis of an evolutionary species–area relationship

    Jonathan B. Losos;Dolph Schluter

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Kingsley
David M. Kingsley Stanford University
Catherine L. Peichel
Catherine L. Peichel University of Bern
Jason T. Weir
Jason T. Weir University of Toronto
Sean M. Rogers
Sean M. Rogers University of Calgary
Arne Ø. Mooers
Arne Ø. Mooers Simon Fraser University
Steven M. Vamosi
Steven M. Vamosi University of Calgary
Howard D. Rundle
Howard D. Rundle University of Ottawa
Trevor D. Price
Trevor D. Price University of Chicago
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern

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