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103
Citations
71283
World Ranking
228
National Ranking
32

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1997 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Russell Lande is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on several areas within Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their published work covers topics in Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics. These topics reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ecological and genetic processes.

Frequent collaborators include Vidar Grøtan, Steinar Engen, Marcel E. Visser, and Bernt-Erik Sæther.

Russell Lande's recent publication record includes the following paper:

  • Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History, 2022, The American Naturalist

Their work has appeared in the journal The American Naturalist.

Main fields of study addressed by Russell Lande include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of study engaged by their research include:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Genetics

Russell Lande has been recognized through several notable memberships and fellowships:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2012)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (1997)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1996)

Best Publications

  • THE MEASUREMENT OF SELECTION ON CORRELATED CHARACTERS

    Russell Lande;Stevan J. Arnold

  • Genetics and demography in biological conservation

    Russell Lande

  • QUANTITATIVE GENETIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE EVOLUTION, APPLIED TO BRAIN:BODY SIZE ALLOMETRY.

    Russell Lande

  • Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits

    Russell Lande

  • Risks of Population Extinction from Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity and Random Catastrophes.

    Russell Lande

  • GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY.

    Sara Via;Russell Lande

  • Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory

    Luis-Miguel Chevin;Russell Lande;Georgina M Mace

  • SEXUAL DIMORPHISM, SEXUAL SELECTION, AND ADAPTATION IN POLYGENIC CHARACTERS.

    Russell Lande

  • Efficiency of marker-assisted selection in the improvement of quantitative traits.

    R Lande;R Thompson

  • NATURAL SELECTION AND RANDOM GENETIC DRIFT IN PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION.

    Russell Lande

  • THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-FERTILIZATION AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN PLANTS. I. GENETIC MODELS

    Russell Lande;Douglas W. Schemske

  • Developmental Constraints and Evolution: A Perspective from the Mountain Lake Conference on Development and Evolution

    J. Maynard Smith;R. Burian;S. Kauffman;P. Alberch

  • Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation

    Russell Lande;Steinar Engen;Bernt-Erik Sæther

  • Statistics and partitioning of species diversity, and similarity among multiple communities

    Russell Lande

  • Assessing Extinction Threats: Toward a Reevaluation of IUCN Threatened Species Categories

    Georgina M. Mace;Russell Lande

  • Adaptation to an extraordinary environment by evolution of phenotypic plasticity and genetic assimilation.

    Russell Lande

  • A Quantitative Genetic Theory of Life History Evolution

    Russell Lande

  • THE ROLE OF GENETIC VARIATION IN ADAPTATION AND POPULATION PERSISTENCE IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT.

    Russell Lande;Susan Shannon

  • EFFECTIVE DEME SIZES DURING LONG-TERM EVOLUTION ESTIMATED FROM RATES OF CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENT.

    Russell Lande

  • The maintenance of genetic variability by mutation in a polygenic character with linked loci.

    Russell Lande

  • THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-FERTILIZATION AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN PLANTS. II. EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS.

    Douglas W. Schemske;Russell Lande

Frequent Co-Authors

Steinar Engen
Steinar Engen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Bernt-Erik Sæther
Bernt-Erik Sæther Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Douglas W. Schemske
Douglas W. Schemske Michigan State University
Mark Kirkpatrick
Mark Kirkpatrick The University of Texas at Austin
Philip J. DeVries
Philip J. DeVries University of New Orleans
Maria R. Servedio
Maria R. Servedio University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern
Trevor D. Price
Trevor D. Price University of Chicago
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Montgomery Slatkin
Montgomery Slatkin University of California, Berkeley

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