{"id":145,"date":"2022-07-21T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/?post_type=research_group&p=145"},"modified":"2022-12-21T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:17:13","slug":"biodiversity-and-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"research_group","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/research-group\/biodiversity-and-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity and behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

We conduct research on a wide range of taxa including corals, fish, birds, aquatic invertebrates, and plants.<\/p>\n

We are an international group of people and have ongoing projects and collaborations distributed worldwide.<\/p>\n

We also have our own group website: https:\/\/biodiversity.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We conduct research on a wide range of taxa including corals, fish, birds, aquatic invertebrates, and plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":133,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-145","research_group","type-research_group","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"group_members":"

Principal Investigators<\/h3>\r\nProf Anne Magurran\r\n\r\nProf Maria Dornelas\r\n\r\nDr Iain Matthews\r\n\r\nDr Miguel Barbosa\r\n\r\n \r\n

Research Staff<\/h3>\r\nFaye Moyes\r\n\r\nIn\u00eas Martins\r\n\r\nSamanta Lop\r\n\r\nViviana Brambilla\r\n\r\nPhilippe Fernandez-Fournier\r\n\r\nCher Chow\r\n\r\nJames Cant\r\n\r\n \r\n

Research Students<\/h3>\r\nHaley Arnold\r\n\r\nVictoria Dale\r\n\r\nIsaac Trinidade Santos\r\n\r\nJessica Haghkerdar\r\n\r\nGarrett Fundakowski\r\n\r\nAda F. Eslava","publications":"[publications flag='individual' code='aem1' max='10']","research_projects":"

Research Themes<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Temporal and spatial change in biodiversity<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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:\r\n
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  • agroecology<\/li>\r\n \t
  • biodiversity measurement<\/li>\r\n \t
  • diversity scaling<\/li>\r\n \t
  • drivers of biodiversity change in the Anthropocene<\/li>\r\n \t
  • evolution of behaviour<\/li>\r\n \t
  • functional diversity<\/li>\r\n \t
  • invasive species<\/li>\r\n \t
  • life histories<\/li>\r\n \t
  • niche construction<\/li>\r\n \t
  • macroecology<\/li>\r\n \t
  • spatial and temporal ecology<\/li>\r\n \t
  • succession<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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farms in fife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n
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forestry in the UK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
coral reefs<\/td>\r\n\r\n
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forests in trinidad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
fish and invertebrates<\/td>\r\nbirds on Fair Isle<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
tundra vegetation<\/td>\r\nplants in Brazil<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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frogs in Brazil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n
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fish in Scotland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
guppies in St\u00a0Andrews!<\/td>\r\nreef fish<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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everything, everywhere! (BioTIME)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Our research informs conservation policy at national and international scales.<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","related_theme":[{"related_groups":[145],"related_centre":85,"ID":45,"post_title":"Measurement of Biological Diversity","post_content":"St Andrews is a world-leader in the development and deployment of statistical techniques for estimating and measuring biodiversity, across populations and communities of a staggering array of organisms. We measure and seek to understand genetic diversity across different levels of populations, communities, and ecosystems.<\/span>","post_excerpt":"St Andrews is a world-leader in the development and deployment of statistical techniques for estimating and measuring biodiversity, across populations and communities of a staggering array of organisms. We measure and seek to understand genetic diversity across different levels of populations, communities, and ecosystems.","post_author":"4","post_date":"2022-01-14 20:26:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-01-14 20:26:32","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"measurement-of-biological-diversity","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-25 14:09:32","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-25 14:09:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/?post_type=research_theme&p=45","menu_order":0,"post_type":"research_theme","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"_thumbnail_id":["139","4","2022-02-25 14:09:23","2022-02-25 14:09:23","","eagleNebula","","inherit","open","closed","","eaglenebula","","","2022-02-25 14:09:23","2022-02-25 14:09:23","","45","https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/01\/eagleNebula.jpg","0","attachment","image\/jpeg","0","139"],"id":45}],"related_centre":[{"ID":85,"post_title":"Centre for Biological Diversity","post_content":"The Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers across St\u00a0Andrews focused on the measurement, origin and consequences of biological variation. The Centre's\u00a0objective is to advance scientific understanding of the diversity of life and contribute pro-actively to policy that protects biological diversity.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMain website<\/a>","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"4","post_date":"2022-01-17 16:17:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-01-17 16:17:03","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"centre-for-biological-diversity","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-09-20 13:32:17","post_modified_gmt":"2022-09-20 12:32:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/?post_type=research_centre&p=85","menu_order":0,"post_type":"research_centre","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":85}],"contact":"We are currently all based in the Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD):\r\n\r\nSir Harold Mitchell Building, Greenside Place, KY16 9TH, St\u00a0Andrews\r\n\r\nWe welcome interactions with other research groups and encourage enquiries from prospective volunteers, Senior Honours, MRes and PhD students as well as post-doctoral researchers.\r\n\r\nFor specific enquiries please contact the relevant\u00a0<\/span>PIs.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_group\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_group"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research_group"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}