Dr Ian Vaughan
Senior Lecturer
- vaughanip@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4545
- Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
My research focuses on the processes that shape communities over ecological and evolutionary timescales, and how they respond to environmental change. Much of this focusses upon river systems, for their rich diversity, importance and because they are an excellent model system for asking general ecological questions. This encompasses processes acting across a wide range of scales, from individual trophic interactions and food resource dynamics, through management interventions, land cover and fluvial geomorphology, to large-scale climatic effects. A variety of approaches is used to address these questions, including novel field studies, analysis of large data sets, null models, network analysis, experiments and molecular analyses.
Roles
Course Director: MSc Global Ecology and Conservation
Module Leader: BIT051 Assessing Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Biography
I read Biology at Bristol University (1997–2000) before making the trip over the Severn bridge to Cardiff to undertake a PhD (2000–4) with Prof. Steve Ormerod. The PhD focused on species distribution modelling, with river birds as a model system. Two years of post-doctoral work in Cardiff followed, contributing to the understanding of how ecology interacts with physical habitat in rivers.
In September 2006, I was awarded a Research Councils UK fellowship allowing me to pursue my research interests in river systems and quantitative methods, before moving onto a lectureship in September 2011. I was awarded a Cardiff University Research Leave Fellowship for the academic year (2016-17) and was a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Vermont in 2016. In 2019, I moved onto a Senior Lectureship and established MSc Global Ecology and Conservation.
Publications
2023
- Stenhouse, E. H., Bellamy, P. E., Vaughan, I. P., Kirby, W. B., Symondson, W. O. and Orozco-terWengel, P. 2023. Using DNA metabarcoding to explore spatial variation in diet across European Hawfinch populations. Journal of Field Ornithology (10.13039/501100000270)
2022
- Pye, M. C., Vaughan, I. P., Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2022. Organic litter dynamics in headwater streams draining contrasting land uses. Hydrobiologia (10.1007/s10750-022-05084-4)
- Moorhouse-Gann, R. J. et al. 2022. Impacts of herbivory by ecological replacements on an island ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology 59(9), pp. 2245-2261. (10.1111/1365-2664.14096)
- Davies, S. R., Vaughan, I. P., Thomas, R. J., Drake, L. E., Marchbank, A. and Symondson, W. O. 2022. Seasonal and ontological variation in diet and age-related differences in prey choice, by an insectivorous songbird. Ecology and Evolution 12(8), article number: e9180.
- Cuff, J. P. et al. 2022. Density-independent prey choice, taxonomy, life history and web characteristics determine the diet and biocontrol potential of spiders (Linyphiidae and Lycosidae) in cereal crops. Environmental DNA 4(3), pp. 549-564. (10.1002/edn3.272)
- Tew, N. E., Baldock, K. C. R., Vaughan, I. P., Bird, S. and Memmott, J. 2022. Turnover in floral composition explains species diversity and temporal stability in the nectar supply of urban residential gardens. Journal of Applied Ecology 59(3), pp. 801-811. (10.1111/1365-2664.14094)
- Shewring, M. P., Vaughan, I. P. and Thomas, R. J. 2022. Moth biomass and diversity in coniferous plantation woodlands. Forest Ecology and Management 505, article number: 119881. (10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119881)
2021
- Maia, K. P., Marquitti, F. M. D., Vaughan, I. P., Memmott, J. and Raimundo, R. L. G. 2021. Interaction generalisation and demographic feedbacks drive the resilience of plant-insect networks to extinctions. Journal of Animal Ecology 90(9), pp. 2109-2121. (10.1111/1365-2656.13547)
- Timberlake, T. P., Vaughan, I. P., Baude, M. and Memmott, J. 2021. Bumblebee colony density on farmland is influenced by late-summer nectar supply and garden cover. Journal of Applied Ecology 58(5), pp. 1006-1016. (10.1111/1365-2664.13826)
- Gutierrez-Canovas, C. et al. 2021. Populations of high-value predators reflect the traits of their prey. Ecography 44(5), pp. 690-702. (10.1111/ecog.05438)
- Zhao, Y. et al. 2021. The impact of a native dominant plant, Euphorbia jolkinii, on plant–flower visitor networks and pollen deposition on stigmas of co-flowering species in subalpine meadows of Shangri-La, SW China. Journal of Ecology 109(5), pp. 2107-2120. (10.1111/1365-2745.13624)
- James, J., Thomas, J. R., Maceda-Veiga, A., Mitchell, R., Vaughan, I. P. and Cable, J. 2021. Environmental nitrate impacts foraging and agonistic behaviours of invasive non-native crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus and Faxonius virilis). Hydrobiologia 848(9), pp. 2345–2354. (10.1007/s10750-020-04488-4)
- Cuff, J. P. et al. 2021. Money spider dietary choice in pre- and post-harvest cereal crops using metabarcoding. Ecological Entomology 46(2), pp. 249-261. (10.1111/een.12957)
- Cuff, J. P. et al. 2021. MEDI: Macronutrient Extraction and Determination from Invertebrates, a rapid, cheap and streamlined protocol. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12(4), pp. 593-601. (10.1111/2041-210X.13551)
- Tew, N. E., Memmott, J., Vaughan, I. P., Bird, S., Stone, G. N., Potts, S. G. and Baldock, K. C. 2021. Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes. Journal of Ecology 109(4), pp. 1747-1757. (10.1111/1365-2745.13598)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Gotelli, N. J. 2021. Using climatic credits to pay the climatic debt. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36(2), pp. 104-112. (10.1016/j.tree.2020.10.002)
2020
- Worthington, T. A., Worthington, I., Vaughan, I. P., Ormerod, S. J. and Durance, I. 2020. Testing the ecosystem service cascade framework for Atlantic salmon. Ecosystem Services 46, article number: 101196. (10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101196)
- Facey, R. J., Vafidis, J. O., Smith, J. A., Vaughan, I. P. and Thomas, R. J. 2020. Contrasting sensitivity of nestling and fledgling Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica body mass to local weather conditions. Ibis 162(4), pp. 1163-1174. (10.1111/ibi.12824)
- Shewring, M., Jenks, P., Cross, A. V., Vaughan, I. P. and Thomas, R. J. 2020. Testing for effects of tail mounted radio tags and environmental variables on European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus nest survival. Bird Study 67(4), pp. 429-439. (10.1080/00063657.2021.1927979)
2019
- Pereira Maia, K., Vaughan, I. P. and Memmott, J. 2019. Plant species roles in pollination networks: an experimental approach. Oikos 128(10), pp. 1446-1457. (10.1111/oik.06183)
- Gardner, P. C., Vaughan, I. P., Liew, L. P. and Goossens, B. 2019. Using natural marks in a spatially explicit capture-recapture framework to estimate preliminary population density of cryptic endangered wild cattle in Borneo. Global Ecology and Conservation 20, article number: e00748. (10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00748)
- Larsen, S., Bruno, M. C., Vaughan, I. P. and Zolezzi, G. 2019. Testing the River Continuum Concept with geostatistical stream-network models. Ecological Complexity 39, article number: 100773. (10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100773)
- Timberlake, T., Vaughan, I. and Memmott, J. 2019. Phenology of farmland floral resources reveals seasonal gaps in nectar availability for bumblebees. Journal of Applied Ecology 56(7), pp. 1585-1596. (10.1111/1365-2664.13403)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Gotelli, N. J. 2019. Water quality improvements offset the climatic debt for stream macroinvertebrates over twenty years. Nature Communications 10, article number: 1956. (10.1038/s41467-019-09736-3)
- Baldock, K. C. R. et al. 2019. A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3(3), pp. 363-373. (10.1038/s41559-018-0769-y)
2018
- Gardner, P., Goossens, B., Goon Ee Wern, J., Kretzschmar, P., Bohm, T. and Vaughan, I. P. 2018. Spatial and temporal behavioural responses of wild cattle to tropical forest degradation. PLoS ONE 13(4), article number: e0195444. (10.1371/journal.pone.0195444)
- Stark, D., Vaughan, I. P., Evans, L. J., Kler, H. and Goossens, B. 2018. Combining drones and satellite tracking as an effective tool for informing policy change in riparian habitats: a proboscis monkey case study. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 4(1), pp. 44-52. (10.1002/rse2.51)
- Vaughan, I., Gotelli, N., Memmott, J., Pearson, C., Woodward, G. and Symondson, W. 2018. econullnetr: an R package using null models to analyse the structure of 1 ecological networks and identify resource selection. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9(3), pp. 728-733. (10.1111/2041-210X.12907)
- Kieran, L., Kurz, D., Vaughan, I., Ke, A., Evans, L. and Goossens, B. 2018. Bearded pig (Sus barbatus) utilisation of a fragmented forest-oil palm landscape in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Wildlife Research 44(8), pp. 603-612. (10.1071/WR16189)
- Pearson, C. E., Symondson, W. O. C., Clare, E. L., Ormerod, S. J., Iparraguirre Bolaños, E. and Vaughan, I. P. 2018. The effects of pastoral intensification on the feeding interactions of generalist predators in streams. Molecular Ecology 27(2), pp. 590-602. (10.1111/mec.14459)
2017
- Stark, D., Vaughan, I. P., Ramirez Saldivar, D. A., Senthilvel, N. K. S. S. and Goossens, B. 2017. Evaluating methods for estimating home ranges using GPS collars: a comparison using proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus). Plos One 12(3), article number: e0174891. (10.1371/journal.pone.0174891)
2016
- Emer, C., Memmott, J., Vaughan, I. P., Montoya, D., Tylianakis, J. M. and Traveset, A. 2016. Species roles in plant-pollinator communities are conserved across native and alien ranges. Diversity and Distributions 22(8), pp. 841-852. (10.1111/ddi.12458)
- Vafidis, J., Vaughan, I. P., Jones, T. H., Facey, R., Parry, R. and Thomas, R. J. 2016. The effects of supplementary food on the breeding performance of Eurasian reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus; implications for climate change impacts. PloS One 11(7), article number: e0159933. (10.1371/journal.pone.0159933)
- Rock, P., Camphuysen, C. J., Shamoun-Baranes, J., Ross-Smith, V. H. and Vaughan, I. P. 2016. Results from the first GPS tracking of roof-nesting Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) in the UK. Ringing and Migration 31(1), pp. 47-62. (10.1080/03078698.2016.1197698)
- Orford, K. A., Murray, P. J., Vaughan, I. P. and Memmott, J. 2016. Modest enhancements to conventional grassland diversity improve the provision of pollination services. Journal of Applied Ecology 53(3), pp. 906-915. (10.1111/1365-2664.12608)
- Verberk, W. C. E. P., Durance, I., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2016. Field and laboratory studies reveal interacting effects of stream oxygenation and warming on aquatic ectotherms. Global Change Biology 22(5), pp. 1769-1778. (10.1111/gcb.13240)
- Timoteo, S., Albino Ramos, J., Vaughan, I. P. and Memmott, J. 2016. High resilience of seed dispersal webs highlighted by the experimental removal of the dominant disperser. Current Biology 26(7), pp. 910-915. (10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.046)
- Pearson, C. E., Ormerod, S. J., Symondson, W. O. C. and Vaughan, I. P. 2016. Resolving large-scale pressures on species and ecosystems: propensity modelling identifies agricultural effects on streams. Journal of applied ecology 53(2), pp. 408-417. (10.1111/1365-2664.12586)
2015
- Emer, C., Vaughan, I. P., Hiscock, S. and Memmott, J. 2015. The impact of the invasive alien plant, impatiens glandulifera, on pollen transfer networks. PLoS ONE 10(12), article number: e0143532. (10.1371/journal.pone.0143532)
- Atkinson, B., Bailey, S., Vaughan, I. P., Memmott, J. and Baeten, L. 2015. A comparison of clearfelling and gradual thinning of plantations for the restoration of insect herbivores and woodland plants. Journal of applied ecology 52(6), pp. 1538-1546. (10.1111/1365-2664.12507)
- Orford, K. A., Vaughan, I. P. and Memmott, J. 2015. The forgotten flies: the importance of non-syrphid Diptera as pollinators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282(1805), article number: 20142934. (10.1098/rspb.2014.2934)
- Hiscox, J., Savoury, M., Vaughan, I. P., Muller, C. and Boddy, L. 2015. Antagonistic fungal interactions influence carbon dioxide evolution from decomposing wood. Fungal Ecology 14, pp. 24-32. (10.1016/j.funeco.2014.11.001)
- Baldock, K. C. R. et al. 2015. Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282(1803), article number: 20142849. (10.1098/rspb.2014.2849)
- Johnston, S. R., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2015. Acid-base status mediates the selection of organic habitats by upland stream invertebrates. Hydrobiologia 745(1), pp. 97-109. (10.1007/s10750-014-2097-9)
2014
- James, J., Slater, F. M., Vaughan, I. P., Young, K. A. and Cable, J. 2014. Comparing the ecological impacts of native and invasive crayfish: could native species' translocation do more harm than good?. Oecologia 178(1), pp. 309-316. (10.1007/s00442-014-3195-0)
- Vafidis, J. O., Vaughan, I. P., Jones, T. H., Facey, R. J., Parry, R. and Thomas, R. J. 2014. Habitat use and body mass regulation among warblers in the Sahel Region during the non-breeding season. PLoS ONE 9(11), article number: e113665. (10.1371/journal.pone.0113665)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2014. Linking interdecadal changes in British river ecosystems to water quality and climate dynamics. Global Change Biology 20(9), pp. 2725-2740. (10.1111/gcb.12616)
- Seric Jelaska, L., Jurasovic, J., Brown, D. S., Vaughan, I. P. and Symondson, W. O. C. 2014. Molecular field analysis of trophic relationships in soil-dwelling invertebrates to identify mercury, lead and cadmium transmission through forest ecosystems. Molecular Ecology 23(15), pp. 3755-3766. (10.1111/mec.12566)
2013
- Gutierrez-Casanovas, C., Millan, A., Velasco, J., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2013. Contrasting effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors on beta diversity in river organisms. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22(7), pp. 796-805. (10.1111/geb.12060)
- Vaughan, I. P., Merrix-Jones, F. and Constantine, J. 2013. Successful predictions of river characteristics across England and Wales based on ordination. Geomorphology 194, pp. 121-131. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.03.036)
- Davey, J. et al. 2013. Intraguild predation in winter wheat: prey choice by a common epigeal carabid consuming spiders. Journal of Applied Ecology 50(1), pp. 271-279. (10.1111/1365-2664.12008)
- Rock, P. and Vaughan, I. P. 2013. Long-term estimates of adult survival rates of urban Herring Gulls Larus argentatus and Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus. Ringing & Migration 28(1), pp. 21-29. (10.1080/03078698.2013.811179)
- Hatteland, B. A., Haukeland, S., Roth, S., Brurberg, M. B., Vaughan, I. P. and Symondson, W. O. C. 2013. Spatiotemporal analysis of predation by carabid beetles (carabidae) on nematode infected and uninfected slugs in the field. PLoS ONE 8(12), pp. e82142. (10.1371/journal.pone.0082142)
- Barnes, J. B., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2013. Reappraising the effects of habitat structure on river macroinvertebrates. Freshwater Biology 58(10), pp. 2154-2167. (10.1111/fwb.12198)
2012
- Pye, M. C., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2012. Episodic acidification affects the breakdown and invertebrate colonisation of oak litter. Freshwater Biology 57(11), pp. 2318-2329. (10.1111/fwb.12007)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2012. Large-scale, long-term trends in British river macroinvertebrates. Global Change Biology 18(7), pp. 2184-2194. (10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02662.x)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2012. A 20-Year View of Monitoring Ecological Quality in English and Welsh Rivers. In: Boon, P. J. and Raven, P. J. eds. River Conservation and Management. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 79-89., (10.1002/9781119961819.ch7)
- Seager, K., Baker, L., Parsons, H., Raven, P. J. and Vaughan, I. P. 2012. The Rivers and Streams of England and Wales: An Overview of their Physical Character in 2007-2008 and Changes Since 1995-1996. In: Boon, P. J. and Raven, P. J. eds. River Conservation and Management. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 29-43., (10.1002/9781119961819.ch3)
2011
- Vaughan, I. P., Larsen, S., Durance, I. and Ormerod, S. J. 2011. Student-centred experiments with stream invertebrates. Journal of Biological Education 45(2), pp. 106-111. (10.1080/00219266.2010.546007)
2010
- Clews, E., Durance, I., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2010. Juvenile salmonid populations in a temperate river system track synoptic trends in climate. Global Change Biology 16(12), pp. 3271-3283. (10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02211.x)
- King, R. A., Vaughan, I. P., Bell, J. R., Bohan, D. A. and Symondson, W. O. C. 2010. Prey choice by carabid beetles feeding on an earthworm community analysed using species- and lineage-specific PCR primers. Molecular Ecology 19(8), pp. 1721-1732. (10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04602.x)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2010. Linking ecological and hydromorphological data: approaches, challenges and future prospects for riverine science. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20(S1), pp. S125-S130. (10.1002/aqc.1104)
- Raven, P. J., Holmes, N. T. H., Vaughan, I. P., Dawson, F. H. and Scarlett, P. 2010. Benchmarking habitat quality: observations using River Habitat Survey on near-natural streams and rivers in northern and western Europe. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20, pp. S13-S30. (10.1002/aqc.1103)
- Clews, E., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2010. Evaluating the effects of riparian restoration on a temperate river-system using standardized habitat survey. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20(S1), pp. S96-S104. (10.1002/aqc.1096)
- Vaughan, I. P. 2010. Habitat indices for rivers: derivation and applications. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20(S1), pp. S4 - S12. (10.1002/aqc.1078)
2009
- Larsen, S., Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2009. Scale-dependent effects of fine sediments on temperate headwater invertebrates. Freshwater Biology 54(1), pp. 203-219. (10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02093.x)
- Vaughan, I. P. et al. 2009. Integrating ecology with hydromorphology: a priority for river science and management. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19(1), pp. 113-125. (10.1002/aqc.895)
2008
- Vaughan, I. P., Newberry, C., Hall, D., Liggett, S. and Ormerod, S. J. 2008. Evaluating large-scale effects of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis on non-biting midges (Chironomidae) in a eutrophic urban lake. Freshwater Biology 53(10), pp. 2117-2128. (10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02043.x)
2007
- Vaughan, I. P., Noble, D. G. and Ormerod, S. J. 2007. Combining surveys of river habitats and river birds to appraise riverine hydromorphology. Freshwater Biology 52(11), pp. 2270-2284. (10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01837.x)
2005
- Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2005. The continuing challenges of testing species distribution models. Journal of applied ecology 42(4), pp. 720-730. (10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01052.x)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2005. Methodological insights: increasing the value of principal components analysis for simplifying ecological data: a case study with rivers and river birds. Journal of applied ecology 42(3), pp. 487-497. (10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01038.x)
2004
- Vaughan, I. P. 2004. Development of species distribution models and their application to birds in river habitats. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2003
- Agusti, N., Shayler, S. P., Harwood, J. D., Vaughan, I. P., Sunderland, K. D. and Symondson, W. O. C. 2003. Collembola as alternative prey sustaining spiders in arable ecosystems: prey detection within predators using molecular markers. Molecular Ecology 12(12), pp. 3467-3475. (10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.02014.x)
- Vaughan, I. P. and Ormerod, S. J. 2003. Improving the quality of distribution models for conservation by addressing shortcomings in the field collection of training data. Conservation Biology 17(6), pp. 1601-1611. (10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00359.x)
Current projects include:
Long term changes in British rivers
Many UK rivers have changed greatly over recent decades. In and around urban areas, the news is often good, with large scale-recovery from historical water quality problems, albeit with ongoing issues. Elsewhere the news may be less positive, with stressors such as fine sediments and climate change becoming increasingly important. Work in this area has helped to elucidate the changes in river communities that have occurred, both nationally and more locally (e.g. Vaughan & Ormerod 2012, 2014; Phararoh et al. 2021), and whether the ecological benefits of water quality improvements have stalled.
Multiple stressor impacts on river ecosystems
Rivers are subjected to a range of stressors, including a cocktail of pollutants, alterations to the flow regime and a changing climate. The exposure varies among rivers and through time, and stressors may interact in different ways. Navigating this complexity is essential to better understand the effects of multiple stressors and to forecast how river ecosystems may respond to future changes in the mix of stressors. These are major themes of our NERC funded project ‘LTLS Freshwater Ecosystems: analysis and future scenarios of long-term and large-scale freshwater quality and impacts’ with UK-CEH, British Geological Survey, Rothamsted Research and Bowburn Consultancy.
Climate adaptation
Even with rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, making effective management strategies for reducing global change impacts a priority. Work in this area includes: i) characterising river ecosystems’ responses to climatic variation, and the ways in which riparian management may be able to increase their stability, and ii) the ways in which local management (e.g. improved water quality) can offset climate change via the concept of climatic credits (Vaughan & Gotelli, 2019, 2021).
Null model analysis of ecological networks
Null models are valuable tools for analysing community structure, and can help distinguish the roles of different processes in structuring ecological networks such as food webs and plant-pollinator networks. A fundamental question is the extent to which structure results from chance (e.g. interactions occur more frequently between common species than rare ones) as opposed to choice (e.g. dietary preferences). I wrote and maintain the econullnetr package for R (Vaughan et al. 2018), which provides a set of tools for running null models of ecological networks. My GitHub site hosts the most recent development version.
Current students (lead or co-supervisor)
- Max Tercel: The effects of invasive ants on island food webs (NERC, with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)
- Fiona Joyce: Does riparian woodland increase the resilience of stream ecosystems to floods and droughts? (NERC, with Forest Research)
- Emma Pharaoh: Diagnosing the reasons for biodiversity decline in rural rivers (NERC, with Natural Resources Wales, Environment Agency and UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
- Rachel Shepherd-Hunt (NERC) Long-term environmental influences on the ecology and conservation of river birds.
- Maisie Brett, Bristol University (BBSRC, Bristol University): The potential for competition between managed honeybees and wild pollinators
- Sophie Mallett (Cardiff University) Ant thermal biology at macroecological scales
Current/recent funding
- NERC: LTLS Freshwater Ecosystems (LTLS-FE): Analysis and future scenarios of Long-Term and Large-Scale freshwater quality and impacts (with UK-CEH, British Geological Survey, Rothamsted Research and Bowburn Consultancy; total value £1.8m)
- NERC: NETFRESH: Networking the response of freshwater ecosystems to environmental change (total value £80.6k)
- NERC: Diversity in upland rivers for ecosystem service sustainability (DURESS) project (total value £3.1m)
- EU: Managing aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stressors (MARS) project (total value €9m)
Other funders have included BBSRC, Natural Resources Wales and the Environment Agency.
Supervision
Past projects
Jacqueline Platt (NERC, with Steve Ormerod): Habitat complexity and species diversity in rivers
Anna Bransden (with Fred Slater): The ecology of upland ponds in mid-Wales
Leila Duarte (with Rob Thomas): Impacts of capture and handling on wild birds
James Vafidis (EU, with Rob Thomas): The impacts of climate change on the ecology of a migrant wetland warbler
Joanna James (NRW/Cardiff University, with Jo Cable): The impacts of invasive crayfish on aquatic ecosystems
Caitlin Pearson (BBSRC, with Steve Ormerod and Bill Symondson): Effects of agricultural intensification on the ecology of upland stream invertebrate communities
Marian Pye (NERC/Cardiff University, with Isabelle Durance and Steve Ormerod): Catchment and riparian subsidy effects on upland stream ecosystems
Rhodri Thomas (President’s Research Scholarship, with Jose Constantine and Steve Ormerod): Predictions of river habitat response to climate change across the United Kingdom.
Danica Stark (Sime-Darby foundation, with Benoit Goossens): Fragment size, edge effects, and anthropogenic influences on the movement and distribution of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in the Kinabatangan Floodplain, Sabah
Jez Smith (NERC, with Rob Thomas and Hefin Jones): Impacts of climate change on pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca); from individual behaviour to population change
Jordan Cuff (BBSRC, with Bill Symondson and Pablo Orozco-terWengel): Nutrient-specific foraging and the role of spiders as aphid predators
Sarah Davies (NERC, with Bill Symondson and Rob Thomas): Projecting the effects of climate change on prey selection and dietary competition between reed bed warbler species
Richard Facey (with Rob Thomas): The effects of local weather variation on the seasonal fecundity of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica
Ewan Stenhouse (NERC, Pablo Orozco-terWengel and Bill Symondson): Is food availability and choice a limiting factor for declining UK Hawfinch populations?
Nick Tew (NERC, with Jane Memmott, Bristol University): Urban Buzz: quantifying and manipulating the resources available to pollinators in urban gardens.
Rebecca Young (NERC, with Bill Symondson and Jenny Dunn, University of Lincoln): Saving an iconic species from extinction in the UK: interactions between diet, parasites and environmental change
Mike Shewring (EU, with Rob Thomas). European Nightjar and upland plantation woodland management.
Richard Burger (with Benoit Goossens and Bill Symondson): Reticulated pythons in the Kinabatangan: coping with an altered landscape.
Rowena Diamond (EU, with Steve Ormerod and Rob Thomas): Diagnosing and mitigating the adverse effects of extreme winter climate on salmonid spawning
