Russell Lande

He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University where he was a student of Richard Lewontin, and completed his Postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin under James F. Crow. He then held positions at the University of Chicago, University of Oregon, University of California, San Diego,{{Cite web|url=https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/rlande|title=Russell Lande}} and Imperial College London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.lande|title = Home - Emeritus Professor Russell Lande}}

In 2016, he was employed as an International Chair Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).[http://www.ntnu.edu/cbd/people employees at CBD, NTNU]

Lande is best known for his early work extending quantitative genetics theory to the context of evolutionary biology in natural populations. In particular, he developed a stochastic theory for the evolution of quantitative traits by genetic drift and natural selection. He also proposed a multivariate framework to describe the effect of selection on multiple correlated characters, thus helping clarify the much-debated notion of genetic constraints in phenotypic evolution. He later applied and extended these results to study a wide variety of topics in evolutionary biology, including: sexual selection, speciation, the evolution of phenotypic plasticity, of self-fertilization, of life history, of a species range in space and time.Lande, Russel «Sexual Dimorphism, Sexual Selection, and Adaptation in Polygenic Characters». In: Evolution, vol. 34, no. 2 (Mar. 1980), pp. 292–305

Apart from his work in evolutionary genetics, Lande has substantially contributed to the fields of population dynamics and conservation biology.{{Cite web|url=http://www.balzan.org/en/prizewinners/russell-scott-lande|title=Fondazione Balzan}} In particular, his model on the effect of habitat fragmentation on the extinction threshold of territorial species was central to the debate about the conservation of the Northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.Fisch (2012) He and Georgina Mace contributed to clarify the categories for the IUCN red list, by proposing new criteria based on measurable quantities relating to times to extinction. He is a specialist of stochastic population dynamics, on which he co-authored a book with Steinar Engen and Bernt-Erik Sæther, and of methods for estimating density dependence from time series of population density.

Some of the concepts and tools he introduced, such as the phenotypic selection gradient (univariate or multivariate, directional or quadratic) and the G matrix, have become standard in evolutionary biology.

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• [https://books.google.com/books?id=6KClauq8OekC Lande et al 2003. Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation]
• Bernt-Erik Sæther, Steinar Engen and Russell Lande: Finite metapopulation models with density-dependent migration and stochastic local dynamics. London: Royal Society, 1999.(Reprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, 226(1999)

• [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2407703 Lande, R. 1976. Evolution. Natural Selection and Random Genetic Drift in Phenotypic Evolution]
• [http://www.pnas.org/content/78/6/3721.abstract Lande, R. 1981. PNAS. Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits ]
• [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2408842 Lande, R. and S. J. Arnold. 1983. Evolution. The Measurement of Selection on Correlated Characters ]
• [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2461707 Lande, R. 1987. American Naturalist. Extinction Thresholds in Demographic Models of Territorial Populations. ]
• [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;241/4872/1455 Lande, R. 1988. Science. Genetics and demography in biological conservation. ]
• [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/285580 Lande, R. 1993. American Naturalist. Risks of Population Extinction from Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity and Random Catastrophes. ]
• [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/338988 Lande, R. et al. 2002. American Naturalist. Estimating Density Dependence from Population Time Series Using Demographic Theory and Life‐History Data.]

• Sewall Wright Award 1992[http://amnat.org/awards.html American Society of Naturalists' list of winners]
• Guggenheim Fellowship 1996[https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/russell-lande/ The society on the award]
• MacArthur Fellowship 1997[https://www.macfound.org/fellows/557/ MacArthur on the Russel S. Lande]
• Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal 2010
• Balzan Prize 2011
• Fellow of the Royal Society 2012[https://royalsociety.org/people/russell-lande-11786/ Royal Society on the election]
• Elected member, United States National Academy of Sciences 2015[http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20035995.html NAS on the election]
• Outstanding Paper Award, The Wildlife Society (TWS) 2015[http://wildlife.org/wildlife-publication-awards/ TWS on the award]

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• [http://www.labtimes.org/labtimes/issues/lt2012/lt01/lt_2012_01_20_25.pdf Fisch, Florian «“Who’s Going to Speak up for Nature?”». In: Lab Times, 1/2012, pp. 20–25 (Interview with Russell Lande)]
• [http://www.balzan.org/en/prizewinners/russell-scott-lande International Balzan Prize Foundation's biographical and bibliographical data on Lande]

• [https://www.balzan.org/en/prizewinners/russell-lande Russell Scott Lande] International Balzan Prize Foundation
• [https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/russell.lande Lande's profile page, NTNU]

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