Meet the Associate Editors
Stan Boutin
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada
Stan studies how individual variation interacts with food supply to affect life history evolution and population dynamics in a resource-pulse system (Kluane Red Squirrel Project). His other interests include large mammal predator-prey dynamics, hare-lynx cycles, biodiversity monitoring, caribou conservation, and regional landuse planning. Website
Corey Bradshaw
The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Corey is a mathematical ecologist with broad interests in conservation biology, modern and ancient extinction theory, population dynamics, invasive species, wildlife disease and climate change biology. He specialises in crunching large datasets using simulation and analytical modelling to predict species’ response to environmental change. Corey is also in charge of the Journal’s In Focus section. Website
Simon Butler
School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
Simon’s research aims to develop and enhance the evidence-base explaining continued global biodiversity losses and to support the targeted delivery of conservation management measures designed to halt them. He uses a range of observational, experimental and modelling approaches to address the mechanistic links between land-use change and biodiversity health and to identify potential synergies and conflicts between competing demands for space, particularly in agricultural and woodland systems. Website
Karl Cottenie
Department of Integrative Biology , University of Guelph, Canada
Karl studies the effect of traits related to species' niches or dispersal, landscape connectivity, and time on metacommunity theory, mainly using aquatic systems (zooplankton in northern rockpools, fish and mussel communities in rivers, etc). He has also collaborated on projects in terrestrial systems including understory plants and small mammals. Website
Sheena Cotter
School of Biological Sciences, Queens University Belfast, UK
Sheena's research focuses on physiological and genetic life-history trade-offs; particularly in understanding how organisms evolve to defend themselves against attacks from other organisms and how they trade-off the costs of those defences with life-history traits such as longevity and reproduction. Her major focus is on the costs of immunity: particularly in understanding the factors that have shaped the evolution of immunity in insects. She uses a combination of behavioural, physiological, quantitative and molecular genetic approaches to address these questions. Website
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Martin Genner
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
Martin's research is generally aimed towards generating a better understanding of processes that shape patterns of aquatic diversity, particularly of fishes. He integrates a variety of approaches, including population genetics, phylogenetics and morphometrics, and conducts large-scale macroecological analyses of time-series data. Website
Andre Gilburn
School of Biological Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, UK
Andre is interested in behavioural, evolutionary and community ecology, and conservation biology and management. He works on the evolution of mating systems and life histories in beach dwelling flies. He is also interested in the environmental impacts of mechanical beach clearing on strandline ecosystems and the management of sandy beaches. Website
Simon Griffith
Macquarie University, Australia
Simon studies a number of species of passerine bird to understand how environmental variability influences individual life history and behaviour, driving the evolution of mating systems and speciation. His current work includes the only ongoing study of the free-living zebra finch in its native environment in the arid Australian outback. This work will provide context for the global research effort based on this important avian captive model system. Website
Bill Gurney
Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, UK
Bill's main research interest is population ecology; mathematical modelling of the dynamics of animal populations and statistical analyses of data designed to show any underlying control mechanisms. He is interested in a variety of terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems and has collaborated Scottish Government fisheries service. Website
Peter Hambäck
Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden
Peter's research focuses on the role of indirect interactions in spatially heterogeneous landscapes, mainly in arthropod dominated systems. His studies involve behavioural mechanisms, how insects find or do not find hosts, cross-ecosystem flows of matter and organisms, and how both these processes translate to community level consequences, such as apparent competition. Website
Murray Humphries
Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Canada
Murray studies the thermal ecology and metabolism of warm animals in cold places and is interested in linkages between physiology, behaviour, life histories and macroecology. Most of his research is conducted in the field in northern Canada, but whenever possible he likes to combine field studies with laboratory experiments, modelling and literature-based analyses.Website
Frank Johansson
Ecology and Environmental Science, Umea University, Sweden
Frank´s research focuses on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation of population and species in response to environmental changes. He uses dragonflies, frogs and fish as his model organisms, and the focus is on life history traits and neutral genetic markers Website
Bror Jonsson
The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
Bror’s research interests include life history evolution, bio-energetic allocations, resource polymorphism and partial migration in salmonid fishes and effects of escaped farmed salmon on conspecific wild populations. His most recent studies are on how temperature, food quality and growth affect salmonid life histories through phenotypically plastic reaction norms.Website
Simon Leather
Division of Biology, Imperial College, UK
Simon's research interests focus on insects. Including the biological control of insect pests of temperate and tropical agricultural and forestry crops; pest forecasting; effects of climate change on pest populations; acquisition of native pests by alien crop species; agroforestry and the conflicts between pest management and conservation and urban ecology and habitat creation. Website
Bryan Manly
Western EcoSystems Technology Inc, Environmental & Statistical Consultants, USA
Bryan specialises in applications of statistics in ecology and environmental science. He has particular expertise in the design and analysis of biological sampling programs, multivariate analysis, population modeling, computer-intensive methods, and the design and analysis of studies on resource selection by animals. Website
Shai Meiri
Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Shai is a zoologist who studies trait evolution in reptiles, mammalian carnivores and other vertebrates at multiple spatial scales, and is interested in various questions in macroecology and biogeography. Website
Atle Mysterud
Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway
Atle's key research topics include foraging ecology, life history and population ecology of ungulates and linkages between these fields, as well as how ungulates influence trophic interactions in ecosystems. His interests include climate effect studies and how human harvesting affects populations, using mainly analysis of empirical data as a basis for inference. Website
Jonathan Newman
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Canada
Jonathan uses mathematical modelling and lab and field studies to predict the biological impacts of climate change. He also has research interests in plant-animal interactions, herbivore population dynamics and behaviour, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function, and insect community structure. Website
Ryan Norris
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada
Ryan's research focuses on the population dynamics, behaviour, conservation, and evolution of migratory animals. He looks at; the effects of climate and habitat loss on fitness, the role of migration networks and seasonal interactions in predicting changes in population size, the development of conservation models, the costs and benefits of migration, and life-history trade-offs between different periods of the annual cycle. Website
Fanie Pelletier
Department of Biology, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Fanie uses longitudinal monitoring of marked animal populations to understand how change in environmental conditions (natural and artificial) can lead to change in behaviour, life histories and population dynamics and to explore how these changes could feedback on the ecological dynamics. Website
Lennart Persson
Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden
Lennart's main research interest deals with the implications of intraspecific size variation resulting from ontogenetic development on population and community dynamics. Looking at how size or stage variation may give rise to alternative stable states in ecological communities. Specialising in long term studies and mathematical modeling on zooplankton and fish communities. Website
Stewart Plaistow
University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology, UK
Stew's research uses model systems (Daphnia, Soil mites, Venus Flytraps), field studies (Mnais damselflies) and theory to study developmental plasticity and its evolutionary and ecological implications. His current research is focussing on non-genetic inheritance and contemporary evolution, the evolution of developmental thresholds, and character displacement, character release and speciation. Website
John Quinn
University College Cork, Department of Zoology, Ireland
John is interested in the evolutionary ecology of behavioural variation, especially in the context of behavioural syndromes, but also in predator-prey interactions and group living. Specifically he aims to understand how links between life history and realistic ecological variation might explain behavioural variation in populations. Currently John is studying cognitive traits and personality axes of variation, using a combination of experimental and field-based approaches. Website
Alexandre Roulin
Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Alex has two main research interests; the evolution, maintenance and adaptive function of genetic polymorphism and behavioural interactions between family members in the general context of parent-offspring conflict. He studies at the genetic, individual and population level. Website
Brett Sandercock
Division of Biology, Kansas State University, USA
Brett is a population biologist with research interests in the evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology of terrestrial vertebrates. Current investigations include field studies of the demographic responses of arctic and grassland birds to changing environmental conditions and to grazing management in native prairie. Website
Daniel B. Stouffer
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Daniel's research focuses on the structure and dynamics of ecological networks. He tends to follow an interdisciplinary approach by combining empirical data analysis with tools from fields beyond ecology such as engineering and physics. He is particularly interested in uncovering the factors that lead to stable and persistent ecological communities. Website
Jason Tylianakis
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Jason is a community ecologist who studies how global environmental changes alter species interactions and food webs, and how traits of species interact with the environment to determine food-web structure. He also studies the conditions under which biodiversity is most important for maintaining ecosystem functioning. Website
Martijn van de Pol
Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Australia
Martijn is interested in the interaction between individual variation in life-history decisions, environmental variability and population processes; possibly he is best described as an 'evolutionary demographer'. He uses long-term studies on wild birds to understand how populations respond to the various aspects of climate change and why some species are more prone to extinction than others. Website
Tom Webb
Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Tom is a marine macroecologist with broad interests in understanding large-scale patterns in the distribution of life in the seas, from plankton to fish including benthic invertebrates, and due consideration of human activities. In particular he is trying to figure out how to scale up from small-scale samples of local diversity to regional scale macroecological patterns and how dynamics operating within species translate into interspecific macroecological relationships. Website
Henri Weimerskirch
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Henri is a seabird biologist working in evolutionary and behavioural ecology. He is particularly interested in understanding how the marine environment influences foraging strategies and their consequences for the evolution of life history traits of long lived species, by using comparative studies. He runs long term studies on seabirds in the Antarctic and uses a variety of biologging techniques to address questions related to climate change and conservation. Website
Andrew White
Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Andy’s research focuses on developing theoretical models to examine problems in ecology, epidemiology and evolution. His studies involve developing evolutionary theory to examine changes in host resistance levels to parasites and to understand the mechanisms that may promote host and parasite diversity. He also develops population level models to examine ecological invasions and the causes of cycles in abundance of natural systems. Website
Jonathan Wright
Biology, NTNU, Norway
Jon's research focuses mainly on the evolution of cooperation, specifically concerning bi-parental care, parent-offspring conflict and cooperative breeding in birds using field experiments. He is also involved in work on foraging, personalities and adaptations to environmental stochasticity, as well as conceptual developments and theoretical models. Website
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