Douglas Schemske

Douglas Schemske is an evolutionary ecologist who made major contributions to research on pollination,[1] the latitudinal gradient in species diversity,[2] the evolution of polyploidy,[3] and plant mating systems.

[4] Doug Schemske received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1977 [5] and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

[5] He used plants as model study systems, and conducted creative and sometimes long term experiments to test evolutionary theory.

[9][10] With then-PhD student Amy Angert, Schemske used reciprocal transplant experiments and experimental evolution to study the processes that limit species' geographic ranges, again using Mimulus.

[16] Schemske was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in May 2017 in honour of his distinguished research achievements in population biology and evolutionary ecology.