Dr. David Coltman
Biography
Dr. David Coltman is a “molecular ecologist” – a scientist who uses molecular biological tools and population genetic approaches to study ecological questions. He has a broad range of research interests that span fundamental questions in ecology and evolution to more applied topics in wildlife conservation and management. His students and he have used DNA to study mating systems, kinship, heritability, population structure, and phylogeography of many wildlife species that inhabit mountain regions of North America. Study species include bighorn sheep, thinhorn sheep, mountain goats, wolves, red squirrels, and the mountain pine beetle system. Dave and his students have published 171 papers cited over 9,700 times in his career, with 84 of these papers appearing in press since 2011.
Selected Publications
Parasite-mediated selection against inbred Soay sheep in a free-living, island population
DW Coltman, JG Pilkington, JA Smith, JM Pemberton
Evolution, 1259-1267 (1999)
Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting
David W Coltman, Paul O’donoghue, Jon T Jorgenson, John T Hogg, Curtis Strobeck, Marco Festa-Bianchet
Nature 426 (6967), 655-658 (2003)
A quantitative review of heterozygosity–fitness correlations in animal populations
JR Chapman, S Nakagawa, DW Coltman, J Slate, BC Sheldon
Molecular Ecology 18 (13), 2746-2765 (2009)
DW Coltman, WD Bowen, JM Wright
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 265 (1398), 803-809 (1998)
For a complete list of publications please see here.
Contact
CCIS 6-189
University of Alberta
Edmonton , Alberta
Canada T6G 2E9
Associate Dean of Research
Faculty of Science
1-001 CCIS
University of Alberta
Edmonton , Alberta
Canada T6G 2E9
Email: david.coltman@ualberta.ca
Office: 780-492-3169