St Andrews is a world-leader in the development and deployment of statistical techniques for estimating and measuring biodiversity, across populations and communities of a staggering array of organisms. We measure and seek to understand genetic diversity across different levels of populations, communities, and ecosystems.
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Prof. Anne Magurran
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Ali, JR, Deacon, AE, Mahabir, K, Ramnarine, IW & Magurran, AE 2018, 'Heterospecific shoaling in an invasive poeciliid: shared history does not affect shoal cohesion' Animal Behaviour, vol 138, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.023
Magurran, AE, Deacon, AE, Moyes, FH, Shimadzu, H, Azeredo de Dornelas, MA, Phillip, D & Ramnarine, I 2018, 'Divergent biodiversity change within ecosystems' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 115, no. 8, pp. 1843-1847. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712594115
Camacho-Cervantes, M, Ojanguren, AF, Domínguez-Domínguez, O & Magurran, AE 2018, 'Sociability between invasive guppies and native topminnows' PLoS One, vol 13, no. 2, e0192539. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192539
Orfao, I, Ojanguren, AF, Barbosa, M, Vicente, L, Varela, S & Magurran, AE 2018, 'How pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection influence male mating decisions in a promiscuous species' Animal Behaviour, vol 136, pp. 147-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.12.013
Barbosa, M, Deacon, AE, Janeiro Silva, MJ, Ramnarine, I, Morrissey, MB & Magurran, AE 2018, 'Individual variation in reproductive behaviour is linked to temporal heterogeneity in predation risk' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 285, no. 1870, 20171499. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1499
Negrão, R, Sampaio-e-Silva, T, Rocha Kortz, A, Magurran, A & Silva Matos , DM 2017, 'An endangered tree fern increases beta-diversity at a fine scale in the Atlantic Forest Ecosystem' Flora, vol 234, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2017.05.020
Gotelli, N, Shimadzu, H, Dornelas, M, McGill, B, Moyes, F & Magurran, AE 2017, 'Community-level regulation of temporal trends in biodiversity' Science Advances, vol 3, no. 7, e1700315. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700315
Deacon, A, Mahabir, R, Inderlall, D, Ramnarine, IW & Magurran, AE 2017, 'Evaluating detectability of freshwater fish assemblages in tropical streams: is hand-seining sufficient?' Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol 100, no. 7, pp. 839-849. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-017-0610-5
Kotrschal, A, Deacon, AE, Magurran, AE & Kolm, N 2017, 'Predation pressure shapes brain anatomy in the wild' Evolutionary Ecology, vol First Online. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-017-9901-8
Magurran, AE 2017, 'The important challenge of quantifying tropical diversity' BMC Biology, vol 15, 14. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-017-0358-6