Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026)

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

   David Reznick

2. Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

   Joseph Travis

3. Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Ecology and Evolution Studies, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA

   Donald Miles

Corresponding author

Correspondence to
David Reznick.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests

Additional information D.R. is a distinguished professor at the University of California, Riverside, California, and was a graduate student with Bob (1974–1980) and in continuous contact thereafter. D.R. and Bob co-authored a paper in Nature as part of a special Darwin 150 issue. J.T. is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, and was a undergraduate honours student (1973–1974) with Bob and a collaborator on papers with him, produced after J.T. entered a PhD programme at Duke University. D.M. is a professor at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and was a graduate student with Bob (1979–1985), with whom he co-authored four papers (most recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA).

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