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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.
Anurag A. Agrawal
Anurag A. Agrawal is an American evolutionary ecologist at Cornell University who studies the coevolution of plants and insect herbivores, especially monarch butterflies and milkweed.
Csaba Pál
Csaba Pál is a Hungarian evolutionary biologist who leads a microbial experimental evolution laboratory at the Biological Research Centre in Szeged, known for a 2007 Nature study showing virus coevolution drives bacterial mutation rates.
Daniel G. Streicker
Daniel G. Streicker is a disease ecologist and Professor of Viral Ecology at the University of Glasgow, known for his long-term research on rabies in vampire bats in Peru.
Daniel H. Janzen
Daniel H. Janzen (born 1939) is an American tropical ecologist known for work on plant–animal interactions and for building Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica.
David Lack
David Lack (1910–1973) was a British ornithologist and ecologist who directed the Edward Grey Institute at Oxford from 1945 to 1973, known for the clutch-size principle and Darwin's Finches.
E. Toby Kiers
E. Toby Kiers, also published as Toby Kiers, is an American-born evolutionary biologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam known for showing that legumes sanction cheating rhizobia.
Franz J. Weissing
Franz J. Weissing is a Dutch theoretical biologist and professor at the University of Groningen who uses mathematical models to study animal personalities, evolutionary game theory, and biodiversity.
Herbert Friedmann
Herbert Friedmann (1900–1987) was an American ornithologist and longtime Smithsonian curator of birds, known for decades of work on the evolution of brood parasitism in cowbirds and cuckoos.
Jaap de Roode
Jaap de Roode, born Jacobus C. de Roode, is a Dutch evolutionary biologist at Emory University who showed that monarch butterflies medicate their offspring against parasites.
Joan E. Strassmann
Joan E. Strassmann is an American evolutionary biologist who studies the evolution of cooperation and conflict, first in social wasps and since 1998 in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.
Johanna Schmitt
Johanna Schmitt is an evolutionary ecologist and plant geneticist at the University of California, Davis, known for field experiments showing how Arabidopsis thaliana adapts to climate.
Joy Bergelson
Joy Bergelson is an American plant evolutionary geneticist at New York University known for showing that plant disease-resistance genes persist for millions of years rather than evolving by arms races.
Le Kang
Le Kang (康乐) is a Chinese ecological genomicist and CAS Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Zoology in Beijing, known for three decades of work on locust genomes and swarming.
Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke is a Dutch entomologist and chemical ecologist, professor at Wageningen University, known for discovering that plants cry for help and for promoting edible insects.
Mark D. Rausher
Mark D. Rausher is an American evolutionary biologist, Kilgo Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology at Duke University, known for work on adaptation in morning glories.
Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby, born 1947 in the UK, is an Australian evolutionary ecologist at Macquarie University who pioneered trait-based ecology, arranging the world's plant species into functional types by measurable traits.
Naomi E. Pierce
Naomi E. Pierce, born 1954, is an American evolutionary biologist, the Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard, known for molecular phylogenies of butterflies and ants and studies of symbiosis.
Peter H. Raven
Peter H. Raven (1936–2026) was an American botanist and evolutionary biologist who led the Missouri Botanical Garden for 39 years and, with Paul Ehrlich, coined the term "coevolution" in 1964.
Sharon Y. Strauss
Sharon Y. Strauss (born 1956) is an American evolutionary ecologist and UC Davis professor emerita known for work on plant communities and coexistence of related species.
Sue Hartley
Sue Hartley is a British ecologist at the University of Sheffield known for research on silicon-based plant defenses and the 2009 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.