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Professor Lesley Lancaster

Professor Lesley Lancaster
Professor Lesley Lancaster
Professor Lesley Lancaster

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Accepting PhDs

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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

Ecology Research Cluster Lead

SBS Executive Committee

Academic Senator

SBS AthenaSWAN self-assessment team

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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  • Evolving social dynamics prime thermal tolerance during a poleward range shift

    Wood, C., Fitt, R. N. L., Lancaster, L. T.
    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 126, no. 3, pp. 574-586
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Towards an interactive, process-based approach to understanding range shifts: developmental and environmental dependencies matter

    Fitt, R. N. L., Palmer, S., Hand, C., Travis, J. M. J., Lancaster, L. T.
    Ecography, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 201-210
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Dornelas, M., Antão, L. H., Moyes, F., Bates, A. E., Magurran, A. E., Adam, D., Akhmetzhanova, A. A., Appeltans, W., Arcos, J. M., Arnold, H., Ayyappan, N., Badihi, G., Baird, A. H., Barbosa, M., Barreto, T. E., Bässler, C., Bellgrove, A., Belmaker, J., Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Bett, B. J., Bjorkman, A. D., Błażewicz, M., Blowes, S. A., Bloch, C. P., Bonebrake, T. C., Boyd, S., Bradford, M., Brooks, A. J., Brown, J. H., Bruelheide, H., Budy, P., Carvalho, F., Castañeda-Moya, E., Chen, C. A., Chamblee, J. F., Chase, T. J., Siegwart Collier, L., Collinge, S. K., Condit, R., Cooper, E. J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Cotano, U., Crow, S. K., Damasceno, G., Davies, C. H., Davis, R. A., Day, F. P., Degraer, S., Doherty, T. S., Dunn, T. E., Durigan, G., Duffy, J. E., Edelist, D., Edgar, G. J., Elahi, R., Elmendorf, S. C., Enemar, A., Ernest, S. K. M., Escribano, R., Estiarte, M., Evans, B. S., Fan, T., Farah, F. T., Fernandes, L. L., Farneda, F. Z., Fidelis, A., Fitt, R., Fosaa, A. M., Daher Correa Franco, G. A., Frank, G. E., Fraser, W. R., García, H., Gatti, R. C., Givan, O., Gorgone-Barbosa, E., Gould, W. A., Gries, C., Grossman, G. D., Gutierréz, J. R., Hale, S., Harmon, M. E., Harte, J., Haskins, G., Henshaw, D. L., Hermanutz, L., Hidalgo, P., Higuchi, P., Hoey, A., Van Hoey, G., Hofgaard, A., Holeck, K., Hollister, R. D., Holmes, R., Hoogenboom, M., Hsieh, C., Hubbell, S. P., Huettmann, F., Huffard, C. L., Hurlbert, A. H., Macedo Ivanauskas, N., Janík, D., Jandt, U., Jażdżewska, A., Johannessen, T., Johnstone, J., Jones, J., Jones, F. A. M., Kang, J., Kartawijaya, T., Keeley, E. C., Kelt, D. A., Kinnear, R., Klanderud, K., Knutsen, H., Koenig, C. C., Kortz, A. R., Král, K., Kuhnz, L. A., Kuo, C., Kushner, D. J., Laguionie-Marchais, C., Lancaster, L. T., Lee, C. M., Lefcheck, J. S., Lévesque, E., Lightfoot, D., Lloret, F., Lloyd, J. D., López-Baucells, A., Louzao, M., Madin, J. S., Magnússon, B., Malamud, S., Matthews, I., McFarland, K. P., McGill, B., McKnight, D., McLarney, W. O., Meador, J., Meserve, P. L., Metcalfe, D. J., Meyer, C. F. J., Michelsen, A., Milchakova, N., Moens, T., Moland, E., Moore, J., Mathias Moreira, C., Müller, J., Murphy, G., Myers-Smith, I. H., Myster, R. W., Naumov, A., Neat, F., Nelson, J. A., Nelson, M. P., Newton, S. F., Norden, N., Oliver, J. C., Olsen, E. M., Onipchenko, V. G., Pabis, K., Pabst, R. J., Paquette, A., Pardede, S., Paterson, D. M., Pélissier, R., Peñuelas, J., Pérez-Matus, A., Pizarro, O., Pomati, F., Post, E., Prins, H. H. T., Priscu, J. C., Provoost, P., Prudic, K. L., Pulliainen, E., Ramesh, B. R., Mendivil Ramos, O., Rassweiler, A., Rebelo, J. E., Reed, D. C., Reich, P. B., Remillard, S. M., Richardson, A. J., Richardson, J. P., van Rijn, I., Rocha, R., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Rixen, C., Robinson, K. P., Ribeiro Rodrigues, R., de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres, D., Rudstam, L., Ruhl, H., Ruz, C. S., Sampaio, E. M., Rybicki, N., Rypel, A., Sal, S., Salgado, B., Santos, F. A. M., Savassi-Coutinho, A. P., Scanga, S., Schmidt, J., Schooley, R., Setiawan, F., Shao, K., Shaver, G. R., Sherman, S., Sherry, T. W., Siciński, J., Sievers, C., da Silva, A. C., Rodrigues da Silva, F., Silveira, F. L., Slingsby, J., Smart, T., Snell, S. J., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Souza, G. B. G., Souza, F. M., Castro Souza, V., Stallings, C. D., Stanforth, R., Stanley, E. H., Mauro Sterza, J., Stevens, M., Stuart-Smith, R., Rondon Suarez, Y., Supp, S., Yoshio Tamashiro, J., Tarigan, S., Thiede, G. P., Thorn, S., Tolvanen, A., Teresa Zugliani Toniato, M., Totland, ?., Twilley, R. R., Vaitkus, G., Valdivia, N., Vallejo, M. I., Valone, T. J., Van Colen, C., Vanaverbeke, J., Venturoli, F., Verheye, H. M., Vianna, M., Vieira, R. P., Vrška, T., Quang Vu, C., Van Vu, L., Waide, R. B., Waldock, C., Watts, D., Webb, S., Wesołowski, T., White, E. P., Widdicombe, C. E., Wilgers, D., Williams, R., Williams, S. B., Williamson, M., Willig, M. R., Willis, T. J., Wipf, S., Woods, K. D., Woehler, E. J., Zawada, K., Zettler, M. L.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 760-786
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Odonata assemblages along an anthropogenic disturbance gradient in Ghana’s Eastern Region

    Seidu, I., Nsor, C. A., Danquah, E., Lancaster, L.
    Odonatologica, vol. 47, no. 1/2, pp. 73-100
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Signatures of local adaptation along environmental gradients in a range-expanding damselfly (Ischnura elegans)

    Dudaniec, R. Y., Yong, C. J., Lancaster, L. T., Svensson, E. I., Hansson, B.
    Molecular Ecology, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 2576-2593
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Range shifting species reduce phylogenetic diversity in high latitude communities via competition

    Fitt, R. N., Lancaster, L. T.
    Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 543-555
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Do group dynamics affect colour morph clines during a range shift?

    Lancaster, L. T., Dudaniec, R. Y., Hansson, B., Svensson, E. I.
    Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 728-737
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Odonata community structure and patterns of land use in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Region (Ghana)

    Seidu, I., Danquah, E., Nsor, C. A., Kwarteng, D. A., Lancaster, L. T.
    International Journal of Odonatology, vol. 20, no. 3-4, pp. 173-189
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Warp-speed adaptation to novel hosts after 300 generations of enforced dietary specialisation in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

    Price, T., Leonard, A., Lancaster, L. T.
    European Journal of Entomology, vol. 114, pp. 257-266
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Life history trade-offs, the intensity of competition, and coexistence in novel and evolving communities under climate change

    Lancaster, L. T., Morrison, G., Fitt, R. N.
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 372, no. 1712, 20160046
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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