Plant Ecology

For more information see Drew Purves

Ecological Networks

For more information see Rich Williams

Structure and Dynamics of Complex Ecological Networks. Computational approaches to studying food webs, networks of who eats whom in an ecosystem. (Rich Williams)
Species Extinctions and the Robustness of Food Webs. Structural and dynamical models of the effects species extinctions on complex food webs. (Rich Williams)
Disease Transmission Networks: Understanding disease dynamics in wildlife populations. (Matt Smith)
A Network Approach to Understanding and Managing Meadows in Yosemite National Park. (Rich Williams)

Spatial Ecology and Biogeography

For more information see Drew Purves, Greg McInerny, Matt Smith

Tools for the Analysis, Interpretation, and Visualization of Primary Biodiversity Data from Mexican Cloud Forests. Evaluating and applying emerging ecological niche modelling techniques to study the changing distribution of Mexican cloud forests. (Rich Williams)
Toolbox for Spatial Analysis of Invasive Species Spread. Invasive species are causing significant economic and environmental damages worldwide. This project will develop a tool to calculate the rate of spatial spread of an invasive species though habitat, and to determine the factors that determine that rate. (Elizaveta Pachepsky)
Explaining Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Ecology. (Matt Smith)
Species distributions and climate change ( Drew Purves and Greg McInerny)
Consequences of range shifts during climate change. (Greg McInerny)

Behavioural Ecology

For more information see Robin Freeman

Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats. Automatic monitoring of the effects of changing environmental conditions on the ecology and behaviour of the Manx Shearwater. (Robin Freeman)
Analysing Animal Movement. High resolution data from animal movement can now be collected allowing researchers to identify changes in the animals’ behaviour. Here, we hope to create tools and techniques that allow researchers to apply these tools to arbitrary positional information. (Robin Freeman)
Collective Behaviour and Decision Making in Groups. (Robin Freeman)

Computational Science Lab

CEES Publications

Matthew J. Smith, Jens D. M. Rademacher, and Jonathan A. Sherratt, Absolute stability of wavetrains can explain spatiotemporal dynamics in reaction-diffusion systems of lambda-omega type, in SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems, 8(3), 1136-1159, 27 August 2009
Jonathan A. Sherratt, Matthew J. Smith, and Jens D.M. Rademacher, Locating the transition from periodic oscillations to spatiotemporal chaos in the wake of invasion, in Proceedings of that National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(27), pp. 10890-10895, 7 July 2009
Noel McGough, Richard Wilford, Lucy Garrett, and Matthew Smith, Georgian Bulb Quota, no. MSR-TR-2009-77, 30 June 2009
Jennifer A. Dunne and Richard J. Williams, Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 364, no. 1524, pp. 1711-1723, June 2009
Tamara N. Romanuk, Yun Zhou, Ulrich Brose, Eric L. Berlow, Richard J. Williams, and Neo D. Martinez, Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 364, no. 1524, pp. 1743-1754, June 2009
Matthew J. Smith, Sandra Telfer, Eva R. Kallio, Sarah Burthe, Alex R. Cook, Xavier Lambin, and Michael Begon, Host-pathogen time series data in wildlife support a transmission function between density and frequency dependence, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(19), pp. 7905-7909, 12 May 2009
Richard J. Williams, Simple MaxEnt models explain food web degree distributions, in Theoretical Ecology, Springer Verlag, 9 May 2009
Begon, M., Telfer, S., Smith, M.J., Burthe, S., Paterson, S., Lambin, and X., Seasonal host dynamics drive the timing of recurrent epidemics in a wildlife, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 20 January 2009
Eric L. Berlow, Jennifer A. Dunne, Neo D. Martinez, Phillip B. Stark, Richard J. Williams, and Ulrich Brose, Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 106, pp. 187-191, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 6 January 2009
T. Guilford, J. Meade, J. Willis, R.A. Phillips, D. Boyle, S. Roberts, M. Collett, R. Freeman, and C.M. Perrins, Migration and stopover in a small pelagic seabird, the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus: insights from machine learning, in Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. B, 2009
Daniel Montoya, Drew W Purves, Itziar Rodriguez, and Miguel A Zavala, [in press] Do species distribution models explain spatial structure within tree species ranges?, in Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2009
McInerny, G J., Turner, J R G., Wong, H Y., Travis, J M J., Benton, and T G., How range shifts induced by climate change affect neutral evolution, in Proceedings of the Royal Socitey B., 2009
Jeremy W Lichstein, Jonathan Dushoff, Kiona Ogle, Anping Chen, Drew W Purves, John Caspersen, and Stephen W Pacala, [in press] Unlocking the forest inventory data: relating individual-tree performance to unmeasured environmental factors, in Ecological Applications, 2009
Matthew J. Smith, The application of population modelling techniques to the development of Non-detriment Findings for Galanthus elwesii in Turkey., in International Expert Workshop on CITES Non-Detriment Findings, 17 November 2008
Nikolay Strigul, Denis Pristinski, Drew W Purves, Jonathan Dushoff, and Stephen W Pacala, Scaling from trees to forests: tractable macroscopic equations for forest dynamics, in Ecological Monographs, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 523-545, November 2008
Drew W Purves, Jeremy W Lichstein, Nikolay Strigul, and Stephen W Pacala, Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 29 October 2008
M. Begon, S. Telfer, S. Burthe, X. Lambin, M. Smith, and S. Paterson, Effects of abundance on infection in natural populations: field voles and cowpox virus., in Epidemics, 6 October 2008
Lindsay A Turnbull, Mark Rees, and Drew W Purves, Why equalising trade-offs aren’t always neutral, in Ecology Letters, vol. 11, pp. 1037-1046, October 2008
Matthew Smith, Jonathan Sherratt, and Xavier Lambin, The effects of density dependent dispersal on the spatiotemporal dynamics of cyclic populations, in Journal of Theoretical Biology, Elsevier Ltd., 21 September 2008
T Guilford, J Meade, R Freeman, T Evans, F Bonadonna, D Boyle, and C M Perrins, GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales., in Ibis, January 2008
Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez, Success and its limits among structural models of complex food webs, in Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2008
Lindsay A Turnbull, Cloe Paul-Victor, Bernhard Schmid, and Drew W Purves, Growth rates, seed size and physiology - Do small-seeded species really grow faster?, in Ecology, vol. 89, pp. 1352-1363, January 2008
Fergus P. Massey, Matthew J. Smith, Xavier Lambin, and Sue E. Hartley, Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles?, in Biology Letters, January 2008
William J. Sutherland, Mark J. Bailey, Ian P. Bainbridge, Tom Brereton, Jaimie T. A. Dick, Joanna Drewitt, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Nicholas R. Dusic, Robert P. Freckleton, Kevin J. Gaston, Pam M. Gilder, Rhys E. Green, A. Louise Heathwaite, Sally M. Johnson, David W. Macdonald, Roger Mitchell, Daniel Osborn, Roger P. Owen, Jules Pretty, Stephanie V. Prior, Havard Prosser, Andrew S. Pullin, Paul Rose, Andrew Stott, Tom Tew, Chris D. Thomas, Des B. A. Thompson, Juliet A. Vickery, Matt Walker, Clive Walmsley, Stuart Warrington, Andrew R. Watkinson, Rich J. Williams, Rosie Woodroffe, and Harry J. Woodroof, Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning, in Journal of Applied Ecology, January 2008
Richard J. Williams, Effects of network and dynamical model structure on species persistence in large model food webs, in Theoretical Ecology, January 2008