Spencer Barrett (ecologist)
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| Born | Spencer Charles Hilton Barrett June 7, 1948 |
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| Institutions | University of Toronto |
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| Thesis | Breeding systems in Eichhornia and Pontederia, tristylous genera of the Pontederiaceae (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert George Baker |
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Spencer Charles Hilton Barrett FRS FRSC (born June 7, 1948) is a Canadian ecologist, formerly a Canada Research Chair at University of Toronto and, in 2010, was named Extraordinary Professor at University of Stellenbosch.
Barrett was educated at the University of Reading and the University of California, Berkeley where he was awarded a PhD in 1977 for research into the breeding systems of the plants Eichhornia and Pontederia supervised by Herbert Baker.
Barrett's interests are in evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary ecology and plant reproduction. His research seeks understanding how flowers evolve and what mechanisms are responsible for mating system transitions in flowering plants. As of 2017[update] he is the editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society series B, the flagship scientific journal of the Royal Society.
Barrett is an evolutionary biologist and a worldwide authority on the ecology and genetics of plant reproduction. His work has focused on increasing our understanding of how flowers evolve and the mechanisms responsible for mating system transitions in flowering plants.
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