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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Non-linear transcriptomic responses to compounded environmental changes across temperature and resources in a pest beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Journal of Insect Science, vol. 24, no. 6, ieae106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHeatwaves during early development have long-term consequences for parental care in adulthood
Animal Behaviour, vol. 217, pp. 65-72Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNiche breadth specialisation impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change
The ISME Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, wrae183Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTracking Small Animals in Complex Landscapes: A Comparison of Localisation Workflows for Automated Radio Telemetry Systems
Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, no. 10, e70405Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAccounting for extinction dynamics unifies the geological and biological histories of Indo-Australian Archipelago
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 291, no. 2031, 20240966Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDisentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity
Evolution Letters, qrae04Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae048
GAM4water: An R-based method for extracting wetted areas from remote sensed images
MethodsX, vol. 13, 102955Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeneralism accumulates on the path to success
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 8, pp. 1569–1570Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDetermining Critical Periods for Thermal Acclimatisation Using a Distributed Lag Non-linear Modelling Approach
Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. e11451Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistributions under climate change
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, vol. 5, pp. 351-368Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00527-z
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