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A. Starker Leopold
A. Starker Leopold, born Aldo Starker Leopold, was an American wildlife biologist at UC Berkeley who chaired the landmark 1963 Leopold Report on national parks.
Adrian M. Lister
Adrian M. Lister is a British paleobiologist and Research Leader in Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, known for work on mammoth evolution, giant deer, and island dwarfing.
Akira Miyawaki
Akira Miyawaki (宮脇昭, 1928–2021) was a Japanese plant ecologist who developed the Miyawaki method of dense native-forest restoration and received the 2006 Blue Planet Prize.
Alan Cooper (evolutionary biologist)
Alan Cooper is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist who pioneered ancient DNA research and produced the first complete mitochondrial genomes of an extinct species, the moa.
Alan Hastings
Alan Hastings is a theoretical ecologist at the University of California, Davis, known for work on spatial population dynamics, extinction risk, and transient phenomena in ecology.
Alastair Fitter
Alastair Fitter, also published as A. H. Fitter, is a British plant ecologist and Emeritus Professor at York, a 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society known for mycorrhizal research.
Albert A. Koelmans
Albert A. Koelmans, known as Bart Koelmans, is a Dutch environmental chemist and full professor at Wageningen University whose research addresses microplastic and nanoplastic pollution.
Albert Günther
Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (1830-1914), German-born British zoologist and ichthyologist; Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum 1875-1895, author of the eight-volume Catalogue of Fishes and founder of the Zoological Record.
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti is a scientist at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, known for research on forest resilience and the European forest carbon sink.
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli is a Brazilian-born evolutionary biologist and biodiversity scientist who studies the origins and conservation of tropical biodiversity, and has led science at Kew since 2019.
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis is a computer scientist and evolutionary bioinformatician known for developing RAxML, and holder of an ERA Chair at FORTH in Crete since 2023.
Alfred C. Redfield
Alfred C. Redfield (1890–1983), American physiologist and oceanographer, Harvard professor and WHOI founding scientist; namesake of the Redfield ratio 106C:16N:1P linking plankton and seawater chemistry.
Alfred Romer
Alfred Romer was an American vertebrate paleontologist at Harvard whose textbooks shaped the field, and who gave his name to Romer's Gap in the tetrapod fossil record.
Allan C. Wilson
Allan C. Wilson was a New Zealand-born biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for dating the human–ape split and the 1987 mitochondrial Eve study.
Alpheus Hyatt
Alpheus Hyatt (1838–1902) was an American zoologist and invertebrate paleontologist, a recognized authority on fossil cephalopods, a main proponent of neo-Lamarckian evolution, and founder of The American Naturalist.
Amy Dapper
Amy Dapper is an American evolutionary geneticist and Associate Professor at Mississippi State University who studies how genetic variation and recombination evolve across animal species.
Andrea Quattrini
Andrea M. Quattrini is a marine biologist and Curator of Corals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History who studies the evolution and biogeography of deep-sea corals.
Andrea Sweigart
Andrea L. Sweigart is an American evolutionary geneticist and professor at the University of Georgia who studies how new species form in monkeyflowers, receiving the Presidential Early Career Award in 2014.
Andreas Wagner
Andreas Wagner is an evolutionary biologist and full professor at the University of Zurich who studies robustness and evolutionary innovation, and who wrote the 2023 book Sleeping Beauties.
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford is a conservation scientist and professor at the University of Cambridge whose research shows high-yield farming that spares natural habitat outperforms wildlife-friendly land sharing.
Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson is an ecosystem ecologist and Regents' Professor at Northern Arizona University, known for founding the PhenoCam Network and for the 2018 SPRUCE ecosystem warming study in Nature.
Andrew J. Roger
Andrew J. Roger is a molecular evolution researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada known for work on eukaryotic origins and mitochondria.
Andy Hector
Andy Hector, also known as Andrew Hector, is a community ecologist and Professor of Ecology at Oxford who studies biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning in grasslands and forests.
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis is a biodiversity scientist at the Natural History Museum, London, known for the PREDICTS project, the Biodiversity Intactness Index, and the IPBES Global Assessment.
Angus Buckling
Angus Buckling is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall, studying the evolutionary ecology of microbes.
Anna Chalfoun
Anna D. Chalfoun is an American wildlife ecologist at the USGS Wyoming Cooperative Unit and University of Wyoming, studying habitat selection and wildlife responses to environmental change.
Anne H. Ehrlich
Anne Howland Ehrlich, born 1933, is an American conservation biologist at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology who coauthored more than a dozen books with her husband Paul R. Ehrlich.
Anne Madden (applied microbial ecologist)
Anne A. Madden is an American applied microbial ecologist, science communicator, and entrepreneur who studies insect and home microbiomes, gave a widely viewed 2017 TED talk, and co-founded Lachancea LLC, a brewing-technology company.
Anthony R. Ives
Anthony R. Ives is an American theoretical ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who uses mathematical models and field experiments to study how species interactions shape ecosystem stability.
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan is a Swiss ecologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, where he leads the ECOSPAT Spatial Ecology group and works on species distribution modeling.