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Undergraduate courses: Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Applied Biosciences (Agriculture and Environment), Applied Biosciences (Aquaculture), Applied Biosciences (Plant Sciences), Biological Sciences, Environmental Biology, Wildlife Conservation.

Masters courses: Biological Diversity, Botanical Conservation, Conservation Biology.

 

Dr David Bilton		Ecology and physiology of aquatic invertebrates; invertebrate thermal tolerance;  invertebrate assemblages of temporary and fluctuating water bodies; aquatic insects as biodiversity surrogates and indicator taxa in conservation; dispersal biology of aquatic invertebrates; ecology and conservation of aquatic Coleoptera; aquatic beetles as surrogates in ecosystem assessment and monitoring; biodiversity of tidally influenced lower river reaches.
Prof Rod Blackshaw		Invertebrate ecology within agricultural systems; pest management problems; interactions of individual behaviour and population processes; biotic mediated processes in the soil.
Dr Graham Bradley		The microbial skin and gut flora of fishes, especially in response to pre- and probiotic feeds and spoilage situations.
Dr Mark Briffa		Behaviour of crabs, ants and crickets; animal crypsis and aggression.
Dr Murray Brown		Responses to environmental stresses (anthropogenic and natural) in marine algae and seagrasses, with particular emphasis on physiological and cellular processes; seaweed technology and integrated aquaculture; environmental physiology of invasive seaweeds; aquatic ecotoxicology.
Dr Stephen Burchett		Invertebrate diversity and oak decline in UK woodlands; on-farm conservation; plant drought and salinity resistance; grazing implications for upland habitat management.
Dr Piero Calosi		Invertebrates' responses to the synergistic action of multiple environmental drivers (e.g. warming, ocean acidity, salinity, hypoxia); adaptation to rapid environmental changes.
Dr Pete Cotton		Ecology of predator-prey interactions; impact of climatic variability on the timing of breeding and migration.
Dr Maria Donkin		Plant and Algal Ecotoxicology; the effects of UVB on higher plants and marine algae; effects of antifouling compounds and heavy metals on marine algae and seagrasses; interactions between pollutant effects on algae in the marine environment and interactions with other stresses such as UVB.
Dr Andy Foggo		Spatial distributions and macroecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater habitats; interaction between dispersal modes, abundance, body size and distribution; plant and algal interactions with herbivores.
Dr Miguel Franco		Use of demographic tools to conserve, manage and/or control threatened and invading plant species; Study of the mechanisms by which populations are regulated and of those that allow them to co-exist.
Dr Jason Hall-Spencer		Benthos and demersal fisheries; marine surveys in coastal systems including fish farms; conservation management; marine biodiversity; dredging; climate change; ocean acidification and invasive species.
Dr Mick Hanley		Plant-animal interactions; plant regeneration biology; . ecosystem diversity, structure, and function; Pollination ecology; seedling herbivory; bumblebees and mass flowering crops; Short Rotation Coppice bio-fuel plantations influence on plant and invertebrate populations.
Dr Ted Henry		Physiology, toxicology and pathology of fish; ecophysiology of aquatic organisms.
Prof Awadhesh Jha		Environmental biomonitoring, ecotoxicology, environment and health.
Dr Mairi Knight		Ecological processesmaintaining biodiversity, employing molecular techniques alongside lab and field-based experimental approaches.
Dr Janet Pearce		Fish immunology.
Dr David Price		Conservation genetics, especially of freshwater fish; genetics of disease resistance in fish.
Dr Paul Ramsay		Biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable management of terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.
Prof John Spicer		Ecological implications of physiological diversity; developmental ecophysiology of marine animals; ocean acidification.
Prof Richard Thompson		The effects of plastic debris in the marine environment; the ecology and conservation of shallow water habitats;  habitat modification to enhance biodiversity of marine engineering such as coastal defences and off-shore renewable energy devices.
Dr Mick uttley		Behaviour of freshwater invertebrate predators, particularly odonata; seed eating predators; pollination dynamics; insect host-plant relationships.
Dr Stephen Votier		Seabird ecology particularly factors underlying population dynamics and foraging ecology; avian migration strategies; application of stable isotopes.
Dr Geoff Wigham		Biology and feeding of intertidal marine invertebrates; shell form and environmental stress in marine gastropod molluscs; molluscan taxonomy; bio-transfer of heavy metals through marine food chains; marine conservation and environmental impact assessment.