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Daniel Simberloff
Daniel Simberloff is an American ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, known for the mangrove-island experiments testing island biogeography and for his role in founding invasion biology.
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle is a New Zealand-born plant and ecosystem ecologist, professor of ecology at Umeå University since 2023, known for long-term experiments on boreal lake islands in Sweden.
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer is an Australian conservation biologist and landscape ecologist, a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University known for his 2012 paper on the decline of large old trees.
David B. Wake
David B. Wake (1936–2021) was an American evolutionary biologist and herpetologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on salamander diversification, evo-devo, and the salamander ring species Ensatina.
David Beerling
David J. Beerling, born 1965, is a British biogeochemist and Sorby Professor at the University of Sheffield, known for research on plant and atmosphere co-evolution.
David Bellamy
David Bellamy (1933-2019), English botanist, peatland ecologist and BBC nature broadcaster famous for Torrey Canyon coverage and the Conservation Foundation, whose climate-change skepticism ended his TV career.
David Bellwood
David R. Bellwood is an Australian marine ecologist at James Cook University in Townsville, a leading expert on the evolution and ecology of coral reef fishes.
David Dilcher
David L. Dilcher, born in 1936, is an American paleobotanist who studies the origin and evolutionary success of flowering plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.
David E. Richardson
David E. Richardson is an American NOAA fishery biologist known for his 2016 discovery of an Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning ground in the Slope Sea.
David Hillis
David Hillis is an American evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies molecular evolution and biodiversity and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
David Jablonski
David Jablonski is an American paleobiologist and University of Chicago professor who studies macroevolution, mass extinction, and marine bivalves, and coined the concept of dead clade walking.
David L Stern
David L Stern is an American developmental and evolutionary biologist and HHMI Investigator known for showing that morphological evolution often acts through gene regulatory DNA.
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.
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman, also published as David Bowman, is an Australian fire scientist who holds the research chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science at the University of Tasmania.
David Mouillot
David Mouillot (born 1970) is a French marine ecologist and professor at the Université de Montpellier, known for his 2016 Nature paper on coral reef bright spots.
David N. Reznick
David N. Reznick (born 1952) is an American evolutionary biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside whose Trinidadian guppy experiments showed evolution by natural selection can be remarkably fast.
David Penny
David Penny (1938–2024) was a New Zealand molecular evolutionist at Massey University who developed mathematical methods for phylogenetic trees and tests of Darwin's theory of evolution.
David Pilbeam
David Pilbeam (David Roger Pilbeam, born 1940) is an English-born paleoanthropologist and Harvard emeritus professor known for fieldwork on Miocene apes in Pakistan's Siwalik fossil beds.
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove is a conservation ecologist, professor of ecology and public affairs at Princeton University, and author of The Condor's Shadow, known for research on deforestation and biodiversity loss.
David Sloan Wilson
David Sloan Wilson, born 1949, is an American evolutionary biologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor emeritus at Binghamton University known for reopening the group selection debate and developing multilevel selection theory.
David Tilman
David Tilman is an American ecologist at the University of Minnesota, known for resource competition theory and Cedar Creek grassland experiments showing that plant diversity drives productivity and stability.
David W. Schindler
David W. Schindler (1940–2021) was an American-born Canadian limnologist who directed the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario and proved phosphorus, not carbon, drives lake eutrophication.
Dean E. Pearson
Dean E. Pearson is an American research ecologist at the USDA Forest Service in Missoula, Montana, who studies biological invasions and won a 2009 PECASE award.
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs is a paleontologist at Yale University and a Peabody Museum curator since 2003, known for work on the Burgess Shale and the Tully monster.
Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris (1928–2026), English zoologist, ethologist, surrealist painter, and broadcaster; London Zoo curator of mammals, presenter of Granada's Zoo Time, author of the 1967 bestseller The Naked Ape, and researcher of the painting chimpanzee Congo.
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American primatologist, founded Rwanda's Karisoke Research Center in 1967, studied mountain gorillas for 18 years, wrote Gorillas in the Mist, founded the Digit Fund, and was murdered at Karisoke in 1985, case unsolved.
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall was an American soil ecologist at Colorado State University who showed that soil animals, from Antarctic nematodes onward, are a working part of the climate system.
Diane O'Brien
Diane M. O'Brien is an American nutrition scientist and ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who pioneered stable isotope ratios as objective dietary biomarkers.
Diego Riveros
Diego Riveros, also known as Diego Riveros-Iregui, is a Colombian-American ecohydrologist who is a professor at UNC Chapel Hill and studies soil carbon dioxide and water quality.
Dolores R. Piperno
Dolores R. Piperno is an American archaeobotanist who founded phytolith analysis, showed the humid American tropics were centers of early plant domestication, and is a Smithsonian senior scientist emerita.