Theodore Garland Jr.

Theodore Garland Jr. (born 28 November 1956) is a biologist specializing in evolutionary physiology at the University of California, Riverside.

Education

Garland earned his B.S in

During his Master's degree, he served as President of the Southern Nevada Herpetology Association. During his Ph.D. work, he recorded the maximum speed (34.6 km/h) of what to date remains the world's fastest lizard, Ctenosaura similis. Subsequently, he completed postdoctoral training at the University of Washington with Raymond B. Huey.

Career

He was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for 14 years, served as a program director for the Population Biology and Physiological Ecology Program^[1] at the National Science Foundation during 1991–1992, and is Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside.

Garland is Editor in Chief of the journal Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, formerly Physiological and Biochemical Zoology,^[2]. He is an Associate Editor for Behavior Genetics and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Zoology.^[3] Garland is a former Topic Editor for Comprehensive Physiology,^[4] and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Morphology,^[5] The American Naturalist, and Evolution.^[6] He is an associate director for the Network for Experimental Research on Evolution,^[7] a University of California Multicampus Research Program.

His major scientific contributions have been in the areas of

Awards

In 1983–84, he was a Visiting

In 1991, he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award [9] from the National Science Foundation.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas named him College of Sciences Alumnus of the Year ^[10] in April 2017.

In 2023, he received the Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award from U.C., Riverside.

Publications

Books

• Garland, T. Jr., and M. R. Rose, eds. 2009. Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. xvii + 730 pages. PDF file

Selected papers

• Garland, T. Jr. (1983). "The relation between maximal running speed and body mass in terrestrial mammals" (PDF). Journal of Zoology, London. 199 (2): 157–170.
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• Garland, T. Jr.; Adolph, S. C. (1991). "Physiological differentiation of vertebrate populations" (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 22: 193–228.
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• Garland, T. Jr., and S. C. Adolph. 1994. Why not to do two-species comparative studies: limitations on inferring adaptation. Physiological Zoology 67:797-828. PDF
• Garland, T. Jr.; Carter, P. A. (1994). "Evolutionary physiology" (PDF). Annual Review of Physiology. 56: 579–621.
  PMID 8010752
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• Garland, T. Jr.; Bennett, A. F.; Rezende, E. L. (2005). "Phylogenetic approaches in comparative physiology" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Biology. 208 (16): 3015–3035.
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• Swallow, J. G.; Garland, T. Jr. (2005). "Selection experiments as a tool in evolutionary and comparative physiology: insights into complex traits - An introduction to the symposium" (PDF). Integrative and Comparative Biology. 45 (3): 387–390.
  S2CID 2305227
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• Garland, T. Jr.; Schutz, H.; Chappell, M. A.; Keeney, B. K.; Meek, T. H.; Copes, L. E.; Acosta, W.; Drenowatz, C.; Maciel, R. C.; van Dijk, G.; Kotz, C. M.; Eisenmann, J. C. (2011). "The biological control of voluntary exercise, spontaneous physical activity and daily energy expenditure in relation to obesity: human and rodent perspectives" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Biology. 214 (2): 206–229.
  PMID 21177942
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