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fish behaviour
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Fish Behaviour & Biodiversity Group
School of Biology
University of St Andrews
Scottish Oceans Institute
KY16 8LB, Scotland, UK

 

Prof Anne Magurran

Professor of Ecology and Evolution

 

Contact:

 aem1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Anne Magurran

Supervisor for
  • Deacon, Amy Elizabeth

    School of Biology

    Supervisor 100%

    25/09/06 → 26/09/10

  • Kelley, Jennifer Louise

    School of Biology

    Supervisor 100%

    1/11/99 → 27/06/03

Research overview

I am interested in the measurement, evolution and conservation of biological diversity with particular emphasis on freshwater fish assemblages and currently have projects in Brazil, Trinidad, Mexico, India and Scotland.

Research interests

My current research concerns the measurement, evolution and conservation of biological diversity. It focuses on neotropical freshwater fish and I have active research programmes and collaborations in the Brazilian Amazon, in Trinidad and in Mexico. Much of my research relates to the Trinidadian guppy, a model organism in evolutionary biology. A key objective is to unravel the evolution of reproductive isolating mechanisms and social behaviour in these systems. This work involves a range of molecular and behavioural tools. Other research projects concern piranha behaviour and the ecology of invasive species. In addition, I am helping devise strategies to monitor and conserve biodiversity in neotropical environments and working towards the same goals in Scotland. My interest in these topics is reflected in the publication of Measuring Biological Diversity (Blackwell, 2004), Evolutionary Ecology: the Trinidadian guppy (OUP, 2005) and Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment (A.E. Magurran & B.J. McGill eds OUP 2010)

Future research

Aims: To improve the measurement of biological diversity; to examine the impact of invasive species on neotropical fish assemblages; to further explore the evolutionary basis of fish behaviour

Academic/Professional Qualification

B.Sc.; D.Phil., University of Ulster; FRSE; Fisheries Society of the British Isles (honorary life member); British Ecological Society (member); Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (member and former Hon. Secretary)

  • School of Biology

    Scottish Oceans Institute

    East Sands

    St Andrews

    Fife

    KY16 8LB

    United Kingdom

    http://biology.st-and.ac.uk/sites/guppy/
    Phone: +44 (0)1334 463506

  • Scottish Oceans Institute

    http://soi.st-andrews.ac.uk/

  • Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling

    http://creem2.st-andrews.ac.uk/

  • Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences

    http://ibans.st-andrews.ac.uk/pageset.aspx?psr=207

  • Fish Behaviour and Biodiversity Research Group

  • St Andrews Sustainability Institute

    http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/sasi/home/

 

Recent Publications

Barbosa, M & Magurran, AE 2011, ' Evidence of female-promoted polyandry in Trinidadian guppies ', Environmental Biology of Fishes , vol 90, no. 1, pp. 95-102.
Buckland, ST , Studeny, AC , Magurran, A , Illian, JB & Newson, S 2011, ' The geometric mean of relative abundance indices: a biodiversity measure with a difference ', Ecosphere , vol 2.
Deacon, AE , Ramnarine, IW & Magurran, AE 2011, ' How Reproductive Ecology Contributes to the Spread of a Globally Invasive Fish ', PLoS One , vol 6, no. 9, pp. -.
Dornelas, M , Phillip, DAT & Magurran, AE 2011, ' Abundance and dominance become less predictable as species richness decreases ', Global Ecology and Biogeography , vol 20, no. 6, pp. 832-841.
Sievers, C & Magurran, AE 2011, ' Context dependent acquisition of familiarity recognition in Trinidadian guppies ', Behaviour , vol 148, no. 7, pp. 843-855.
Spence, R , Magurran, A & Smith, C 2011, ' Spatial cognition in zebrafish: the role of strain and rearing environment ', Animal Cognition , vol 14, no. 607-612.
Henderson, PA & Magurran, A 2010, ' Linking species abundance distributions in numerical abundance and biomass through simple assumptions about community structure ', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol 277, no. 1687, pp. 1561-1570.
Barbosa, M & Magurran, A 2010, ' Guppies control offspring size at birth in response to differences in population sex ratio ', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , vol 100, no. 2, pp. 414-419.
Magurran, A 2010, ' Q&A ', Current Biology , vol 20, no. 13, pp. 545-546.
Magurran, AE & Queiroz, H 2010, ' Evaluating Tropical Biodiversity: Do We Need a More Refined Approach? ', Biotropica , vol 42, no. 5, pp. 537-539.
Queiroz, HL , Sobanski, MB & Magurran, A 2010, ' Reproductive strategies of Red-bellied Piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri Kner, 1858) in the white waters of the Mamiraua flooded forest, central Brazilian Amazon ', Environmental Biology of Fishes , vol 89, no. 1, pp. 11-19.
Magurran, AE , Baillie, SR , Buckland, ST , Dick, JM, Elston, DA, Scott, EM, Smith, RI, Somerfield, PJ & Watt, AD 2010, ' Long-term datasets in biodiversity research and monitoring: assessing change in ecological communities through time ', Trends in Ecology and Evolution , vol 25, no. 10, pp. 574-582.
Magurran, AE & Henderson, PA 2010, ' Temporal turnover and the maintenance of diversity in ecological assemblages ', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol 365, no. 1558, pp. 3611-3620.
Magurran, AE & Dornelas, M 2010, ' Biological diversity in a changing world ', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol 365, no. 1558, pp. 3593-3597.
Barbosa, M , Dornelas, M & Magurran, AE 2010, ' Effects of polyandry on male phenotypic diversity ', Journal of Evolutionary Biology , vol 23, no. 11, pp. 2442-2452.
Magurran, AE 2010, ' What is biodiversity? ', BMC Biology , vol 8, pp. -.
Buckland, ST , Studeny, AC , Magurran, A & Newson, S 2010, ' Biodiversity monitoring: the relevance of detectability. ', in A Magurran & B McGill (eds) , Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment Oxford University Press, pp. 25-36.
Magurran, A & McGill, BJ 2010, ' Conclusions ', Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment pp. 291-294.
Magurran, A & Henderson, PA 2010, ' Commonness and rarity ', in AE Magurran (ed.) , Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment Oxford University Press.
Magurran, A 2010, ' Measuring biological diversity in time (and space) ', in AE Magurran & BJ McGill (eds) , Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 85-93.

 

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