Michael E. Douglas Data-verified

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Professor/ Chair, Global Change Biology

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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36 h-index 201 pubs 5,958 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Michael E. Douglas's research program centers on the application of genomic and phylogenomic methods to understand species delimitation, hybridization, and the evolutionary history of aquatic and terrestrial organisms. His work frequently involves the analysis of genetic variation, including mitochondrial DNA, to investigate population genetics and taxonomic uncertainty, particularly within North American river systems and among various animal taxa.

Douglas has published extensively on the development and application of computational tools for genomic analysis, such as the R package ClineHelpR for outlier detection. His recent publications explore the integration of Indigenous knowledge with technical data for adaptive decision-making, the use of machine learning in species delimitation for North American box turtles, and the impact of physical exercise on human brain health. He also investigates the evolutionary drivers of aquatic biodiversity across Asia, using snowtrout as a case study.

His scholarly output includes 201 publications and has been cited over 5,900 times, with an h-index of 36. Douglas collaborates extensively with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Marlis R. Douglas and Tyler K. Chafin.

Metrics

  • h-index: 36
  • Publications: 201
  • Citations: 5,958

Selected Publications

  • Historic and contemporary selection define conservation units for a short-range endemic within an anthropogenically-altered riverscape (2025)
  • Where are we going? And how do we get there? Strategic positioning AFS to navigate uncertain waters to future success (2025)
  • GeoGenIE: a deep learning approach to predict geographic provenance of biodiversity samples from genomic SNPs (2024)
  • Reducing DNA extraction costs through factorial design for the DNAdvance Kit (2024)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Microcertification as an Avenue to Diversify Pathways and Opportunities for AFS Professional Certification (2024)
  • AFS Second Vice President Candidate Statement: (2024)
  • AdmixPipe v3: facilitating population structure delimitation from SNP data (2023)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Himalayan uplift and evolution of aquatic biodiversity across Asia: Snowtrout (Cyprininae: Schizothorax) as a test case (2023)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • autoStreamTree: Genomic variant data fitted to geospatial networks (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A community genomics approach to natural hybridization (2023)
    17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Riverscape community genomics: A comparative analytical approach to identify common drivers of spatial structure (2022)
    12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Trait-based predictors of genomic diversity within freshwater fish communities of the Ozarks (2022)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A community genomics approach to natural hybridization (2022)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Riverscape community genomics: A comparative analytical approach to identify common drivers of spatial structure (2022)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Relictual Hybridization and Biogeography of Massasauga Rattlesnakes ( <i>Sistrurus</i> spp.) (2022)

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