Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg   (born 1961) is a Canadian-American botanist. Born in Alberta, Canada, his family moved to the US. He graduated from Washington State University with a Ph.D. in 1987. He is a Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University, and head of the Rieseberg Lab. In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, replacing Sally Otto. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has edited Molecular Ecology for many years. Honours and awards
1998 David Starr Jordan Prize
2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
2010 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Royal Society of Canada and Society of Biology
2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal

Works
 Rieseberg, L.H., and J.H. Willis. "Plant speciation". 2007. Science 317:910-914. Rieseberg, L.H., T.E. Wood, and E. Baack. 2006. "The nature of plant species". Nature 440:524-527. Harter, A.V., K.A. Gardner, D. Falush, D.L. Lentz, R. Bye, L.H. Rieseberg. 2004. "Origin of extant domesticated sunflowers in eastern North America". Nature 430:201-205. Burke, J.M., and L.H. Rieseberg. 2003. "The fitness effects of transgenic disease resistance in wild sunflowers". Science 300:1250. Rieseberg, L.H., O. Raymond, D.M. Rosenthal, Z. Lai, K. Livingstone, T. Nakazato, J.L. Durphy, A.E. Schwarzbach, L.A. Donovan, and C. Lexer. 2003. "Major ecological transitions in annual sunflowers facilitated by hybridization". Science 301:1211-1216. Rieseberg, L. H., A. Widmer, M. A. Arntz, and J. M. Burke. 2002. "Directional selection is the primary cause of phenotypic diversification". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:12242-12245. References

External links

"Loren H. Rieseberg", Scientific Commons

1961 births
Living people
21st-century American botanists
Washington State University alumni
Indiana University faculty
MacArthur Fellows
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Ecology journal editors