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 Biology, vol. 30, no. 4, e17271Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17271
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23234/1/Comte_etal_GCB_Bringing_Traits_Back_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Biotic interactions in soil and dung shape parasite transmission in temperate ruminant systems: An integrative framework
Ecological Applications, vol. 34, no. 3, e2956Contributions to Journals: Review articlesAn open-source method for producing reliable water temperature maps for ecological applications using non-radiometric sensors
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment , vol. 34, 101184Contributions to Journals: ArticlesJournal of Animal Ecology in 2023: Looking back and looking forward
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 93, no. 4, pp. 370-372Contributions to Journals: EditorialsA systematic map of studies testing the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, vol. 5, no. 1, e12303Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCitizen science data reveal altitudinal movement and seasonal ecosystem use by hummingbirds in the Andes Mountains
Ecography, vol. 2024, no. 3, e06735Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlasticity and associated epigenetic mechanisms play a role in thermal evolution during range expansion
Evolution Letters, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 76-88Contributions to Journals: LettersThe 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: ArticlesImpact 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: Articles