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Professor Lesley Lancaster

Professor Lesley Lancaster
Professor Lesley Lancaster
Professor Lesley Lancaster

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Accepting PhDs

About
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

Ecology Research Cluster Lead

SBS Executive Committee

 

External Memberships

Senior editor, Journal of Animal Ecology

Member of British Ecological Society and European Society for Evolutionary Biology

Research

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.

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Biological and Environmental Sciences

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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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  • Maternal and genetic effects on escape: a prospective review

    Lancaster, L. T.
    Escaping From Predators: An Integrative View of Escape Decisions. Cooper, W. E., Blumstein, D. T. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 343-359, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Frequency-dependent and correlational selection pressures have conflicting consequences for assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lizard, Uta stansburiana

    Lancaster, L. T., McAdam, A. G., Hipsley, C. A., Sinervo, B. R.
    The American Naturalist, vol. 184, no. 2, pp. 188-197
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Origin and diversification of the California flora: re-examining classic hypotheses with molecular phylogenies

    Lancaster, L. T., Kay, K. M.
    Evolution, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1041-54
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Rapid formation of reproductive isolation between two populations of side-blotched lizards, Uta stansburiana

    Corl, A., Lancaster, L. T., Sinervo, B.
    Copeia, no. 4, pp. 593-602
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sensitivity of Spring Phenology to Warming Across Temporal and Spatial Climate Gradients in Two Independent Databases

    Cook, B., Wolkovich, E., Davies, T., Ault, T., Betancourt, J., Allen, J. M., Bolmgren, K., Cleland, E., Crimmins, T., Kraft, N., Lancaster, L., Mazer, S., McCabe, G., McGill, B., Parmesan, C., Pau, S., Regetz, J., Salamin, N., Schwartz, M., Travers, S.
    Ecosystems, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1283-1294
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Phylogenetic inference of reciprocal effects between geographic range evolution and diversification

    Goldberg, E. E., Lancaster, L. T., Ree, R. H.
    Systematic Biology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 451-465
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Epistatic social and endocrine networks and the evolution of life history trade-offs and plasticity

    Lancaster, L.
    Mechanisms of Life History Evolution: The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs. OXFORD UNIV PRESS
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Molecular evolutionary rates predict both extinction and speciation in temperate angiosperm lineages

    Lancaster, L. T.
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 10, 162
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Maternal adjustment of egg size organizes alternative escape behaviors, promoting adaptive phenotypic integration

    Lancaster, L., McAdam, A., Sinervo, B.
    Evolution, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 1607-1621
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits increases offspring survival

    Lancaster, L. T., Hipsley, C. A., Sinervo, B.
    Behavioral Ecology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 993-999
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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