Russell Scott Lande - NTNU

About

Research interests

Quantitative genetics and evolution of natural populations
Ecology and conservation biology
- Stochastic population dynamics
- Demographic and genetic factors in extinction
- Measurement, patterns and processes of species diversity

Background

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, 1976-1978
Assistant Prof., Dept. Biophysics & Theoret. Biology, Univ. of Chicago, 1978-1982
Associate Prof., Dept. Biology (Ecology & Evolution), Univ. of Chicago, 1982-1989
Louis Block Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolution, Univ. of Chicago, 1989-1990
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, 1990-1999
Professor, Department of Biology, University of California - San Diego, 1999-2007
Prof. II (20%), Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, 2007-2016
Royal Society Research Professor, Imperial College London, 2007-2016
International Chair Professor, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, 2016-present

Honours and memberships

Weldon Prize (medal) for mathematical contributions to biology, University of Oxford, 2010
Balzan Prize - Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics, Balzan Foundation, 2011
Fellow of the Royal Society of London, The Royal Society of London, 2012
Royal Society Research Professorship (5 year renewal), Royal Society of London, 2012
Elected member, National Academy of Sciences USA, National Academy of Sciences USA, 2015
Outstanding Paper Award, The Wildlife Society, The Wildlife Society, 2015

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D. in Biology, 1976
Organization for Tropical Studies, San José, Costa Rica, Field Ecology, summer 1973
University of Chicago, graduate study in Theoretical Biology, 1972-1973
University of California, Irvine, B.S. in Biology, 1972

Publications

2023

Lande, Russell Scott; Grøtan, Vidar; Engen, S; Visser, M.E.; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2023) Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History. The American Naturalist. volum 201 (4).
Academic article

2019

Devaux, Celine; Porcher, Emmanuelle; Lande, Russell Scott. (2019) Mating systems and avoidance of inbreeding depression as evolutionary drivers of pollen limitation in animal-pollinated self-compatible plants. Annals of Botany. volum 123 (2).
Academic article
Lande, Russell Scott. (2019) Developmental integration and evolution of labile plasticity in a complex quantitative character in a multiperiodic environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. volum 166 (23).
Academic article
Servedio, Maria R; Powers, John M; Lande, Russell Scott; Price, Trevor. (2019) Evolution of sexual cooperation from sexual conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. volum 116 (46).
Academic article

2017

Lande, Russell; Porcher, Emmanuelle. (2017) Inbreeding depression maintained by recessive lethal mutations interacting with stabilizing selection on quantitative characters in a partially self-fertilizing population. Evolution. volum 71 (5).
Academic article

Journal publications

Lande, Russell Scott; Grøtan, Vidar; Engen, S; Visser, M.E.; Sæther, Bernt-Erik. (2023) Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History. The American Naturalist. volum 201 (4).
Academic article
Devaux, Celine; Porcher, Emmanuelle; Lande, Russell Scott. (2019) Mating systems and avoidance of inbreeding depression as evolutionary drivers of pollen limitation in animal-pollinated self-compatible plants. Annals of Botany. volum 123 (2).
Academic article
Lande, Russell Scott. (2019) Developmental integration and evolution of labile plasticity in a complex quantitative character in a multiperiodic environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. volum 166 (23).
Academic article
Servedio, Maria R; Powers, John M; Lande, Russell Scott; Price, Trevor. (2019) Evolution of sexual cooperation from sexual conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. volum 116 (46).
Academic article
Lande, Russell; Porcher, Emmanuelle. (2017) Inbreeding depression maintained by recessive lethal mutations interacting with stabilizing selection on quantitative characters in a partially self-fertilizing population. Evolution. volum 71 (5).
Academic article