Loren H. RiesebergFRSCFRS FRSB (born 1961) is a Canadian-Americanbotanist.

Born in Alberta, Canada, his family moved to the US. He graduated fromWashington State University with a Ph.D. in 1987.

He is a Professor of Botany at theUniversity of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology atIndiana University,^[1][2] and head of the Rieseberg Lab.^[3][4] In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, replacingSally Otto.^[5] He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has editedMolecular Ecology for many years.^[2][6][7]

• 1998David Starr Jordan Prize^[8][2]
• 2003MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2010 Elected Fellow of theRoyal Society of London,^[9]Royal Society of Canada andSociety of Biology^[8]
• 2012Darwin–Wallace Medal^[10]

• 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.

• Official website
• "Loren H. Rieseberg"Archived 2012-03-27 at theWayback Machine,Scientific Commons

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• American fellows of the Royal Society

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