Dolph Schluter

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Dolph Schluter FRS FRSC OBC (born May 22, 1955) is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently studies speciation in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

Schluter received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph in 1977, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1983, both in Ecology and Evolution. Schluter's early research was done on the evolutionary ecology and morphology of Darwin's finches.^{[citation needed]}

Schluter is the author of The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation, 2000, Oxford University Press, and The Analysis of Biological Data, 2009 (and 2015), with , and an editor with Robert E. Ricklefs of Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, 1993, Chicago University Press.

In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London.^[1] In 2001, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[2] In 2017, he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences.^[3] Schluter was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia in 2021.^[4]

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• science.ca profile