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College of Life of Environmental Sciences

Department of Biosciences

Undergraduate courses: biological sciences, zoology, conservation biology & ecology, conservation biology & geography.

Masters courses: Applied ecology, conservation & biodiversity, evolutionary & behavioural ecology, aquatic biology & resource management.

 

Dr Stuart Bearhop		Migration and foraging ecology of vertebrates (particularly birds) and the application of stable isotope techniques in animal ecology; habitat switching in geese; foraging specializations in seabirds; the effects of household feeding on bird populations; the effects of alien species on island communities.
Dr Jonathan Bennie		Vegetation composition in chalk grassland; interactions between climate and land cover modelling patterns of current and future microclimate in ecologically sensitive areas of the UK; characterising patterns of vegetation structure and composition; metapopulation dynamics and climate change in butterflies.
Dr Annette Broderick		Conservation and monitoring of marine vertebrates, most notably marine turtles; climate change impacts on wild populations; sustainable use of wildlife; IUCN Red List.
Dr James Cresswell		Sustainability of pollination systems, which provide important ecosystem services by enhancing crop yield and sustaining the biodiversity of wild plants through the fertilization of seeds; impacts of agrochemicals on pollination through unintended effects on pollinating insects; interdisciplinary collaborations between specialists in animal behaviour, engineering, computer science and mathematics.
Prof Matthew Evans		Ecology and conservation; plant-pollinator signalling; the effects of predation by domestic cats on bird and small mammal populations; predicting the impact of climate change on the natural world.
Prof Tamara Galloway		Pollutant damage to living systems; fish and invertebrate models of disease processes; the ways in which environmental factors contribute to human health conditions.
Dr Brendan Godley		Marine turtle ecology; integration of tracking data with remote sensed oceanographic datasets.
Dr Dave Hodgson		Models of population and community dynamics, with application to strategies of conservation management and the exploitation of natural resources.
Dr Ceri Lewis		Environmental biology of marine invertebrates and their life history responses to environmental parameters (eg climate change and pollution) using an integrated approaches: ecology, physiology, molecular biology and biochemistry; ocean acidification and pollution impacts on reproductive processes in marine organisms.
Dr Fiona Mathews		Interactions between free-living mammals and their environment; effect of habitat management on stress and disease in species of conservation concern; impact of landscape changes and agricultural intensification on the population structure of British bats; impact of stress in wild animals.
Dr Nick Royle		Animal life-history diversity and evolution using vertebrate and invertebrate model systems in the field and lab.
Dr Eduarda Santos		Dynamics of sexual development and function in fish in relation to benefits for aquaculture and fisheries.
Dr Jamie Stevens		Parasite systematics and evolution; fish systematics and population genetics; arthropod ectoparasites; population genetics of salmon and trout in southwest rivers, using microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analysis; genetic diversity of trout on Dartmoor to inform management practices aimed at conserving fish in southern upland habitats; impact of sea and estuarine net fisheries on salmon populations within the river Tamar.
Prof Charles Tyler		Reproductive physiology; mechanisms of endocrine disruption; le ecotoxicology and assessing population level effects of environmental contaminants in wildlife, principally fish.
Dr Ronnie van Aerle		Impact of environmental chemical on fish reproduction and development.
Dr Frank van Veen		Understanding processes that determine the structure and dynamics of food webs and predicitng how they will respond to environmental change.
Dr Robert Wilson		Responses of biodiversity to environmental change; effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on the conservation of butterflies; engaging people in the debate about consequences of environmental change.
Dr Matthew Witt		Applied aspects of marine vertebrate ecology, including foraging behaviour, habitat-use, population assessment and human-wildlife space conflict; remote data collection technologies: satellite tracking, archival data loggers, acoustic detection and tracking, earth observation remote sensing.