Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Qualified and motivated graduate students with similar research interests are welcome to email me. In particular, I am looking for PhD students interested in macroecology/biogeography questions related to different types of species diversity: taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic. I am also interested in supervising students with interests in island biogeography, functional island biogeography, and the study of global environmental change (e.g. habitat loss, climate change, invasive species) on islands.
Current Doctoral Researchers
Lead supervisor
Yating Song (2018 – present) The impact of urbanisation on carnivore species
Joseph Wayman (2018 – present) Holistic approach to global environmental change research
Eva Benavides-Ríos (2021 – present) Island macroecology and the conservation of island biodiversity
Maria Jørgensen (2022 - present) Island biogeography of avian extinctions and introductions
Osanna Chu (2023 - present) Predicting functional diversity loss across islands for plants and birds
Co-supervisor
Imogen Mansfield (2018 – present) Indicators of air pollution-derived stress in birds
Sijeh Asuk (2018 – present) Phenological responses of food producing forest trees to climate change
Aaron Bhambra (2021 - present) Habitat fragmentation and heathland pollinators
Greg Eckhartt (2022 - present) Do wooded networks enhance bird movement in urban areas?
Estelle Darko (2022 - present) Forest Diversity, Dynamics and Resilience in a changing world
Rachel Mailes (2023 - present) Tropical foreast biodiversity and carbon sequestration
Completed students
Thomas Aspin (2016 – 2018) Drought impacts on stream ecosystems
Eva Loza Vega (2017 – 2020) Long term changes in macroinvertebrate communities in streams of Denali National Park, Alaska
Zining Whang (2017 – 2020) Drought impacts on stream ecosystems.
Victoria Pattison-Willits (2019 – 2023) Avian productivity, urbanization and climatic extremes
Ye Li (2017 – 2023) The island biogeography of urban ecosystems.
Research activity per year