Michael Edward Douglas

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Professor/ Chair, Global Change Biology

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Oklahoma State University (1982–1985); Russian Academy of Sciences (2011); University of California, Merced (2021); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2009–2014); University of Georgia (1976–1983); University of Illinois System (2012); Institute of Biology of Inland Waters named Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin (2011); Oklahoma Biological Survey (1984–1986); Illinois Natural History Survey (2009–2018); Prairie Research Institute (2009–2014); Arizona State University (1986–2002); University of Oklahoma (1984–1986); Colorado State University (2003–2008)

35 h-index 172 pubs 5,728 cited

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Biomedical Subjects

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ORCID Lab Website

OverviewAI-generated summary

Michael E. Douglas's research focuses on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of biotic homogenization, exploring how species distributions and genetic variation are shaped by environmental changes. His work has investigated the phylogeography of Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus L.) using mitochondrial DNA sequences and has examined the relationship between morphology and ecology within freshwater stream fish assemblages. Douglas also studies contemporary migration patterns using computational methods, such as the BA3‐SNPs model for next-generation sequence data.

His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 36, with over 5,900 citations across more than 200 publications. Douglas has collaborated with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Tyler K. Chafin, with whom he shares 20 publications, and Bradley T. Martin, with whom he shares 6 publications. He maintains an active lab website and is designated as a highly cited researcher.

Metrics

h-index: 35
Publications: 172
Citations: 5,728

Positions

Professor/ Chair, Global Change Biology 2011–present

University of Arkansas Fayetteville Biological Sciences ORCID
Associate Director for Research 2007–2011

University of Illinois System Illinois Natural History Survey ORCID
Professor 2001–2007

Colorado State University Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Science ORCID
Curator 1986–2001

Arizona State University Zoology ORCID
Assistant Professor/ Curator 1982–1986

Oklahoma State University Zoology ORCID
Busch Post-Doctoral Fellow 1980–1982

Rutgers University - Busch Campus Biological Sciences ORCID
Oklahoma Biological Survey 1979–1980

University of Oklahoma Zoology ORCID
NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow 1978–1979

Princeton University Biology ORCID

Selected Publications

Historic and contemporary selection define conservation units for a short-range endemic within an anthropogenically-altered riverscape (2025)

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Where are we going? And how do we get there? Strategic positioning AFS to navigate uncertain waters to future success (2025)

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GeoGenIE: a deep learning approach to predict geographic provenance of biodiversity samples from genomic SNPs (2024)

Bioinformatics Advances 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Reducing DNA extraction costs through factorial design for the DNAdvance Kit (2024)

BMC Research Notes 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Microcertification as an Avenue to Diversify Pathways and Opportunities for AFS Professional Certification (2024)

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AFS Second Vice President Candidate Statement: (2024)

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AdmixPipe v3: facilitating population structure delimitation from SNP data (2023)

Bioinformatics Advances 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Himalayan uplift and evolution of aquatic biodiversity across Asia: Snowtrout (Cyprininae: Schizothorax) as a test case (2023)

PLoS ONE 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
autoStreamTree: Genomic variant data fitted to geospatial networks (2023)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
A community genomics approach to natural hybridization (2023)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 21 citations DOI OpenAlex
Riverscape community genomics: A comparative analytical approach to identify common drivers of spatial structure (2022)

Molecular Ecology 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
Trait-based predictors of genomic diversity within freshwater fish communities of the Ozarks (2022)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
A community genomics approach to natural hybridization (2022)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Riverscape community genomics: A comparative analytical approach to identify common drivers of spatial structure (2022)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Relictual Hybridization and Biogeography of Massasauga Rattlesnakes ( <i>Sistrurus</i> spp.) (2022)

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