Recent Staff Leavers
- Donal Smith (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
- Andrew Allan (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)
- Emmeline Broad (Benthic Image Annotation Intern)
- Roi Maor (Research Assistant)
- Cally Ham (Badger Project Coordinator)
PhD Alumni (with theses titles)
2022/23
- Lola Brookes
Reduction and refinement of non-model amphibians used in amphibian disease testing.
- Richard Cornford
Model development and automated data collation for global biodiversity indicators.
- Elise Damstra
Using acoustic remote sensing to monitor coffee farm biodiversity.
- Shawn Dove
Improving the robustness and reliability of population-based global biodiversity indicators.
- Nicholas Dunn
Advancing eDNA methods for monitoring sharks and rays.
- Phillip Jervis
Self medication: Using amphibian skin secretions to explain discrepancies in their response to infectious disease and predation.
- Fay Morland
Drivers of female reproductive failure in the hihi, Notiomystis cincta.
2021/22
- Gonzalo Albaladejo Robles
Understanding how terrestrial vertebrate life-history strategies shape responses to climatic seasonality and landscape heterogeneity.
- Bryony Allen
Transmission of amphibian parasites: exploring the influences of host identity and exposure scenario on key transitions in the transmission pathway.
- Lucy Archer
Developing a conservation evidence-base for the critically endangered Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis) to inform conservation action in Palawan, Philippines.
- Lauren Attfield
Mathematical modelling of the ecological and environmental drivers of zoonotic disease with an application to Lassa fever.
- Matilda-Jane Brindle
Autosexual behaviour in primates: form, phylogeny and function.
- Ella Browning
Improving the understanding of bat population trends in Great Britain.
- Peter Carr
Exploring the benefits of a tropical, large-scale marine protected area for breeding seabirds.
- Claire Collins
Human dimensions of non-compliance in a large-scale Marine Protected Area.
- Sérgio da Silva Henriques
Protecting the unknown: towards assessing extinction risk in megadiverse groups.
- Rosalind Gleave
Building a conservation evidence base for the critically endangered blue-crowned Laughingthrush Pterorhinus courtoisi.
- Susannah Gold
Implications of non-lethal rabies exposure in domestic dogs and African wild dogs for disease dynamics and control.
- Alice Haughan
Investigating the impact of climate change, land use change, and their interactions on forest loss in India.
- Sean Jellesmark
Measuring the impact of conservation on species’ populations.
- Lizzie Jones
The role of shifting baseline syndrome in the management of animal populations.
- Stephen Long
The sustainability of deep-sea fishing in Greenland from a benthic ecosystem perspective: the nature of habitats, impacts of trawling and the effectiveness of governance.
- Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton
Making better decisions for the conservation of threatened species: science, values and New Zealand’s rarest bird.
- Joseph Millard
Causes and consequences of global pollinator biodiversity change in the Anthropocene.
- Helen Muller
Contentious conservation: Understanding the socio-ecological impacts of trophy hunting in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Christopher Owen
Global genomic diversity of a major wildlife pathogen: ranavirus, past and present.
- Henrike Schulte to Bühne
Do climate and land use changes interact to precipitate biodiversity loss?
- Yara Shennan-Farpón
Restoration pathways for Brazil’s Atlantic Forest: finding co-benefits for people and biodiversity.
- Michael Williamson
The environmental drivers influencing the movement networks and ecology of reef sharks in the Chagos archipelago.`
2020/21
- Caitlin Andrews
Foraging for a foothold: causes and consequences of dietary variation in a threatened avian pollinator.
- Paul Barnes
Knowledge and conservation in the Cyclops Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia.
- Liam Fitzpatrick
Mosquito ecology and the epidemiology of vector-borne avian pathogens in Galápagos.
- Heidi Ma
Local perceptions of biodiversity loss and conservation: insights from rural communities around a key protected area in Hainan, China.
- Daniel Nicholson
Colonisation, phenotypic change, and survival: Anolis introductions in Panama.
- Alexandra Peñafiel-Ricaurte
Ecology of Ranavirus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection: assessing the roles of invasive aquatic species and seasonality.
- Jonathan Rio
A revision of the evolutionary relationships of Crocodylia.
- Rosie Williams
Persistent organic pollutants: assessing the threat to cetaceans.
2019/20
- Mario Alvarado-Rybak
Epidemiology of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Chile and the role of the invasive African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a vector.
- Judith Ament
Human-wildlife coexistence in a changing environment.
- Stephanie Brittain
Integrating local knowledge into wildlife population monitoring.
- Deborah Fogell
Measuring the effects of supplementary feeding and biosecurity on the trajectory of a threatened avian population.
- Cally Ham
The ecology of pathogen transmission between wildlife and livestock.
- Samuel Jones
Towards a mechanistic understanding of elevational range occupation and territorial behaviour in tropical montane songbirds.
- Alexander Knight
The conservation genetics of hihi (Notiomystis cincta) and epidemiology of coccidian infection.
- Cassandra Raby
Understanding drivers of parasite infections in baboons: insights across multiple levels, from populations to genetics.
- Thomas Smallwood
Modelling infectious disease in threatened wildlife to inform conservation management.
2018/19
- Kieran Bates
Drivers underpinning heterogeneity in host-pathogen systems.
- Adam Britton
Assessing human impacts on Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish communities.
- Philip Chapman
Prospects for mammals in Borneo's selectively-logged tropical forests: looking beyond species richness and abundance.
- Anthony Dancer
On the evaluation, monitoring and management of law enforcement patrols in protected areas.
- Guilherme Ferreira
Camera trapping Cerrado mammals: assessing protected area effectiveness, influence of anthropogenic pressure and the occupancy-abundance relationship.
- Victoria Franks
Effects of early-life social experiences on learning and conservation in a threatened songbird.
- Angharad Jones
The palaeodietary and morphometric responses of Pleistocene spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta Erxleben, 1777) to environmental changes in Europe.
- Agnese Marino
Coexistence with large carnivores in the north west of Spain.
- Claudia Martina Luna
Individual differences in cognitive abilities and task performance in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus).
- Lisa Mogensen
Identifying key threats and conservation requirements for the Critically Endangered Yangtze finless porpoise.
- Daniella Rabaiotti
The impact of climate change on a tropical carnivore: from individuals to species.
- Rebecca Short
Disentangling the net: the socio-ecological dynamics of mosquito net fishing.
- Donal Smith
The drivers of variation in susceptibility to the amphibian-killing fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
- Fiona Spooner
Predicting population trends under environmental change: comparing methods against observed data.
- Gemma Taylor
Improving the recovery efforts of threatened species.
- Joseph Taylor
Exploring the implications of climate trends and extreme weather events for species conservation in Mauritius.
2017/18
- Lewis Campbell
An investigation into the impacts of an emerging viral pathogen on wild populations of U.K. common frog (Rana temporaria).
- Charlotte Clarke
Investigating the host-parasite dynamics of a novel amphibian dermocystid disease in an isolated population of palmate newts in the UK.
- Sally Faulkner
Integrating GIS approaches with geographic profiling as a novel conservation tool.
- Marc Fernandez Morron
- Helen Gath
Conservation management of the endangered Mauritius parakeet, Psittacula echo.
- Gianfranco Gliozzo
Leveraging the value of crowdsourced geographic information to detect cultural ecosystem services.
- James Hansford
Diversity and extinction in Aepyornithidae.
- Anne Hilborn
The effect of individual variability and larger carnivores on the functional response of cheetahs.
- Sahil Nijhawan
Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
- Helen O'Neill
Making connections: conserving landscapes for wide-ranging species.
2016/17
- Dominic Bennett
An appraisal of the 'Living Fossil' concept.
- Katherine Booth-Jones
Distribution and gene-flow in a hybridising population of Pterodroma petrels.
- Clare Duncan
Mangrove forest ecosystem services: biodiversity drivers, rehabilitation, and resilience to climate change.
- Andrew Jacobson
Large carnivores under threat: investigating human impacts on large carnivores in East Africa.
- Freya Jephcott
Inefficient responses to unlikely outbreaks: a case study of a supposed monkey-borne virus outbreak in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana.
- Natoya Jourdain
New analytical methods for camera trap data.
- Gwen Maggs
The ecology and conservation of wild and reintroduced populations of the critically endangered Mauritius olive white-eye Zosterops chloronothos.
- Kirsten McMillan
Epidemiology of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, across multiple spatial scales.
- Felix Mkonyi
People and predators: Understanding human-carnivore conflict in the Tarangire-Simanjiro ecosystem, northern Tanzania.
- Elizabeth Moorcroft
Paws for thought: assessing the efficacy of monitoring techniques for rare and elusive species.
- David Orchard
The population structure and demography of Triturus cristatus in agricultural landscapes of North-West England.
- Leandro Patino
Evolution and community structure of parasites in Galápagos giant tortoises.
- Silke Riesle Sbarbaro
The persistence and zoonotic emergence of viral infections in fruit bats in Ghana.
- Andrés Valenzuela Sánchez
Is chytridiomycosis a threat to the Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma darwinii)? A multi-approach disease risk assessment.
- Juliet Wright
The role of livelihood interventions within complex social-ecological systems.
2015/16
- Claudia Amphlett
The impacts of extreme climatic events on pastoralists and predators in East African rangelands.
- Alice Baniel
Conflicts over reproduction in a wild social primate, the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus).
- Emily Bell
Phenotypic plasticity and the origins of castes in eusocial insects.
- Anne-Sophie Bertrand
Characterization and conservation of the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil.
- David Curnick
The role of marine protected areas in conserving highly mobile pelagic species.
- Jeremy Cusack
From inventories to interactions: inferring mammal community patterns and processes from camera trap data.
- David Daversa
Movement and parasitism in fragmented habitats.
- Simon Dures
Transfrontier lion conservation: Applying genetics across time and space.
- Ellie Dyer
A global study of the distribution and richness of alien bird species.
- Ben Garrod
Primates of the Caribbean: using historical-era introductions of monkeys in the Lesser Antilles to understand rates of island evolution.
- Michael Hudson
Conservation management of the mountain chicken frog.
- Gita Kasthala
Resilience within a highland freshwater socio-ecological system: the crayfish of Lake Paniai, Papua Province, Indonesia.
- Alexander Lee
The evolutionary ecology of animal information use and social dominance.
- Sean Morrow
The effects of DNA damage caused by sperm cryopreservation in Xenopus.
- Kate Richardson
Dispersal: the effects of phenotype and habitat selection in reintroduced populations.
- Goncalo Rosa
Impact of emerging diseases on amphibian assemblages.
- Su Shan
The bird trade in Taiwan: an analysis of an Eastern pathway to biological invasion.
- Richard Suu-Ire
Potentially zoonotic viruses in the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) in Ghana.
- Veronica Zamora-Gutiérrez
Predicting the impacts of future environmental change on Mexican bats.
2014/15
- Frances Clare
Quantifying the impact of infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on montane populations of Alytes obstetricans.
- Murray Collins
Quantifying environmental indicators and assessing performance in tropical forest management.
- Julieta Decarre
Diversity and structure of bird and mammal communities in the Semiarid Chaco Region: response to agricultural practices and landscape alterations.
- Caitlin Douglas
The distribution and survival of riparian trees along a dammed ephemeral river.
- Henry Ferguson-Gow
The evolution of social traits and biodiversity in the ants.
- Rosalind Kennerley
The ecology of Hispaniolan solenodon and Hispaniolan hutia in agricultural and native forest systems in the Dominican Republic.
- Helen Meredith
Improving the impact of amphibian conservation.
- Nadia Richman
Using local informant data and boat-based surveys to improve knowledge on the status of the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica).
- Oliver Wearn
Mammalian community responses to a gradient of land-use intensity on the island of Borneo.
- Emma Wombwell
Emerging infectious disease and the trade in amphibians.
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