:: Welcome to the Beckerman Lab ::
ECO, EVO, Some DEVO & CONSERVATION

We address basic and applied questions about how genetics, physiology, behaviour and life history influence the distribution and abundance of organisms. We examine the core mechanisms driving the structure and dynamics of communities. We do so by combining empirical and theoretical tools in a range of aquatic and terrestrial organisms. We are funded by NERC, BBSRC and the BES with assistance from The World Parrot Trust, The Freshwater Biological Association, and Microsoft Research. Our research centres around two study systems:

  1. Predator - prey dynamics & food webs
  2. Parrot Conservation and Behaviour in Bonaire
: NEWS :
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• Sam Williams Wins University Business Plan Award for Parrot Conservation Project
• The Sheffield Telegraph highlights the award!
• Visit from David Boukal, from the wild east, after an excellent BES meeting
• Parrots of the Carribean profiled in Audubon Magazine
• warblefly: new album (iTunes and Amazon)

: RECENT PUBLICATIONS :
• Hammill, E, Kratina, P. Beckerman, A.P., Anholt, B.R. 2009. Precisely timed interactions between behavioural and morphological defences. In press Oikos
• Hammill, E. and Beckerman, A.P. 2009. Exposure to defended prey and fish kairomones affects Chaoborus life history strategy and morphology. In press Oecologia
• Barton, B.T, Beckerman, A.P., Schmitz, O.J. 2009. Climate affects direct and indirect interactions in an old-field food web. Ecology 90:2346-2351
 • Beckerman, A.P. and Petchey, O.L. 2009. Infectious food webs. (In Focus). Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 493-496
• Petchey, O.L., A.P. Beckerman, P.H. Warren 2008. Size, foraging and food web structure. PNAS 105: 4191– 4196
• Hammill, E., Rogers, A. Beckerman, A.P. 2008. Costs, benefits and the evolution of inducible defences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21 (3) , 705–715.

Research Topics:
  • The evolution and endocrine basis of inducible defenses (Daphnia)
  • Phenotypic integration: multiple predators and prey defence (Daphnia)
  • Optimal foraging theory and food web structure (Theory)
  • Functional Daphnia Genomics - the geography and genetics of fear (Daphnia)
  • The distribution, abundance and Mating System of Amazon parrots (Parrots)
  • The evolution of cooperative breeding (Theory)
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