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School of Biological Sciences

Undergraduate courses: biology, zoology.

Masters courses: ecology & management of the natural environment.

Dr Marian Yallop		Structure and function of freshwater ecosystems; use of benthic diatoms as indicators of ecological status in rivers and lakes; lake state switching and growth of periphyton and submerged macrophytes; modelling the interaction between waterbirds and their food resources in freshwater lakes; interactions between charophytes and angiosperms in marl lakes.
Prof Jane Memmott		Conservation; food webs; agro-ecology; pollination biology; biological control; alien species; restoration ecology.
Prof Nigel Franks		Ant behaviour and ecology.
Prof Gareth Jones		Conservation biology of bats; echolocation; bat social behaviour; bat molecular ecology: phylogeny, population structure and kinship; interactions between echolocating bats and prey that can hear ultrasound.
Prof Innes Cuthill		Behavioural ecology, physiology and population ecology; camouflage; computational methods for identifying animals; the influence of the light environment on avian welfare; fat storage and body mass regulation strategies in birds; mate choice in birds and fish; parental care and the evolution of mating systems in birds; bird foraging; general biostatistics.
Dr Andy Radford		Impacts of anthropogenic noise (fish and invertebrates at the individual, population and community level): communication, auditory damage and stress, foraging behaviour social interactions and reproduction.
Dr Martin Genner		Spatial and temporal patterns of biological diversity (primarily fish); influence of climate change and fishing on marine fish assemblages; conservation genetics of European marine fishes.
Dr Luca Giuggioli		Animal territoriality, foraging, disease spread and ecosystem nutrient cycling.
Prof Simon Hiscock		Plant reproductive biology; pollen-stigma interactions and self-incompatibility in flowering plants; hybrid speciation in plants; polyploidy; parasitic plants; pollination biology.
Prof Stephen Harris		Ecology and population biology of mammals, and the management of mammal populations; ecology and control of wildlife diseases, especially rabies and bovine tuberculosis; resource utilisation, habitat partitioning and niche overlap in herbivore communities; social organisation of carnivore populations; applied and theoretical mammalogy.
Dr Michael Pocock		Sensitivity of pollinators to fragmentation of habitat; managing farmland to enhance the benefits gained from biodiversity; use of mammals and insects as bioindicators of the effect of agriculture; developing and testing methods to sample small mammals efficiently; chalk grassland and woodland.
Dr Jonathon Bridle		Population genetics; predicting extinction rates and the loss of ecosystem outputs as a result of ongoing environmental change and habitat fragmentation; management of populations to mitigate genetic effects; how speciation affects ecological processes and patterns of biodiversity; response to climate change in butterflies; speciation in Sorbus trees in the Avon Gorge.
Dr Marc Holderied		Ecology and Behaviour of Bats; Echolocation; bat flight; spatiotemporal use of natural habitats by bats (using 3D laser scanning); interactions between echolocating bats and prey that can hear ultrasound.
Dr Heather Whitney		The structure of plant surfaces and its influence on both biotic and abiotic interactions; plant molecular biology; optical analysis; biomimetics; animal behavioural assays.