Biodiversity and behaviour

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Thursday 21 July 2022


Research Centre:
Centre for Biological Diversity



Group Highlights


Our research is aimed at understanding the causes and consequences of change in biological diversity. We focus on multiple levels and types of diversity: within and among species, communities and ecosystems, and including taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity. We are also concerned with understanding behaviour, how it evolves and is maintained, how it shapes evolution, and its role in generating and maintaining biodiversity.

We conduct research on a wide range of taxa including corals, fish, birds, aquatic invertebrates, and plants.

We are an international group of people and have ongoing projects and collaborations distributed worldwide.

We also have our own group website: https://biodiversity.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/



Research


Research Themes

Temporal and spatial change in biodiversity
We study biodiversity to quantify and identify drivers of global change. We undertake studies at local and global scales, and focus on long term trends as well as short-term fluctuations. Our study systems range from fish in Trinidad to farms in Fife. We are interested in the following topics:

  • agroecology
  • biodiversity measurement
  • diversity scaling
  • drivers of biodiversity change in the Anthropocene
  • evolution of behaviour
  • functional diversity
  • invasive species
  • life histories
  • niche construction
  • macroecology
  • spatial and temporal ecology
  • succession
farms in fife
forestry in the UK
coral reefs
forests in trinidad
fish and invertebrates birds on Fair Isle
tundra vegetation plants in Brazil
frogs in Brazil
fish in Scotland
guppies in St Andrews! reef fish
everything, everywhere! (BioTIME)
Our research informs conservation policy at national and international scales.

Group Members


Principal Investigators

Prof Anne Magurran

Prof Maria Dornelas

Dr Iain Matthews

Dr Miguel Barbosa

 

Research Staff

Faye Moyes

Inês Martins

Samanta Lop

Viviana Brambilla

Philippe Fernandez-Fournier

Cher Chow

James Cant

 

Research Students

Haley Arnold

Victoria Dale

Isaac Trinidade Santos

Jessica Haghkerdar

Garrett Fundakowski

Ada F. Eslava

Publications

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Contact

We are currently all based in the Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD):

Sir Harold Mitchell Building, Greenside Place, KY16 9TH, St Andrews

We welcome interactions with other research groups and encourage enquiries from prospective volunteers, Senior Honours, MRes and PhD students as well as post-doctoral researchers.

For specific enquiries please contact the relevant PIs.



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