Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- lesleylancaster@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274551
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
PhD, University of California Santa Cruz, 2008. Dissertation title: Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Organizing Alternative Social and Antipredator Strategies.
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Ananlysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), 2009-2012. Project title: Macroevolutionary causes of regional and habitat-based biodiversity gradients.
Postdoctoral associate, Lund University, 2012-2013. Project title: Adaptation at range limits in Ischnura elegans.
Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, 2013-
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Ecology Research Cluster Lead
SBS Executive Committee
Academic Senator
SBS AthenaSWAN self-assessment team
- External Memberships
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Senior editor, Journal of Animal Ecology
Member of British Ecological Society and European Society for Evolutionary Biology
- Research
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Research Overview
My research focuses on evolution under climate change, and evolutionary processes associated with geographic range limits. I am interested in how social and behavioral factors interact with changing ecological conditions to faciliate or hinder evolutionary change and macroevolutionary processes associated with geographic range shifts and habitat shifts.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Current Research
Recent work focuses on biogeography, niche evolution, and population- and community-level processes associated with climate change and invasions. My current study systems include Scottish damselflies (Odonata), experimental evolution in seed beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus), and synthesis of global data.
- Publications
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Bringing traits back in the equation: A roadmap to understand species redistribution
Global Change BiologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesAn open-source method for producing reliable water temperature maps for ecological applications using non-radiometric sensors
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and EnvironmentContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101184
A systematic map of studies testing the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, vol. 5, no. 1, e12303Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBiotic interactions in soil and dung shape parasite transmission in temperate ruminant systems: An integrative framework
Ecological Applications, e2956Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2956
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Citizen science data reveal altitudinal movement and seasonal ecosystem use by hummingbirds in the Andes Mountains
Ecography, vol. 2024, no. 3, e06735Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe evolution of plasticity at geographic range edges
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 831-842Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExperimental evolution of dispersal: unifying theory, experiments and natural systems
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 1113-1123Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlasticity and associated epigenetic mechanisms play a role in thermal evolution during range expansion
Evolution LettersContributions to Journals: LettersImpact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Misspecification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models
Systematic Biology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 106-119Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPriorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science
Ecosphere, vol. 14, no. 1, e4342Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe consequences of tree disease and pre-emptive felling on functional and genetic connectivity for woodland invertebrates
Ecological Informatics, vol. 72, 101820Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTime counts in animal ecology
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 91, no. 11, pp. 2154-2157Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13821
Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism
BioScience, vol. 72, no. 11, pp. 1118-1130Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe missing link in biogeographic reconstruction: Accounting for lineage extinction rewrites history
Journal of Biogeography, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 1941-1951Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGetting lost in the matrix? On how the characteristics and arrangement of linear landscape elements influence ecological connectivity
Landscape Ecology, vol. 37, pp. 2503–2517Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvolution of resource generalism via generalized stress response confers increased reproductive thermal tolerance in a pest beetle
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 137, no. 2, pp. 374–386Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe importance of eco-evolutionary dynamics for predicting and managing insect range shifts
Current Opinion in Insect Science, vol. 52, 100939Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPopulation demography maintains biogeographic boundaries
Ecology Letters, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1905-1913Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFauxcurrence: simulating multi-species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography
Ecography, vol. 2022, no. 7, e05880Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNatural and Dammed Rivers: Which is Better for Salmon’s Summer?
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221753
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Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 91, no. 6, pp. 1056-1063Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13711
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Derive Accurate Water Thermal Maps from UAV-Mounted Thermal Camera for Ecological Application
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221751
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Latitudinal clines in sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism, and sex-specific genetic dispersal during a poleward range expansion
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 91, no. 6, pp. 1104-1118Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOn the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift-niche breadth hypothesis
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 377, no. 1846, 20210013Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0013
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In Memoriam: Barry Sinervo 1961-2021
Evolution, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 385-390Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates