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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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Temperature drives pre-reproductive selection and shapes the biogeography of a female polymorphism
Ecology Letters, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 149-159Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIncreased duration of extreme thermal events negatively affects cold acclimation ability in a high-latitude, freshwater ectotherm (Ischnura elegans; Odonata: Coenagrionidae)
European Journal of Entomology, vol. 117, pp. 93-100Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvolving social dynamics prime thermal tolerance during a poleward range shift
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 126, no. 3, pp. 574-586Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly197
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13547/1/Wood_et_al_2019_for_PURE.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Towards an interactive, process-based approach to understanding range shifts: developmental and environmental dependencies matter
Ecography, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 201-210Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene
Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 760-786Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOdonata assemblages along an anthropogenic disturbance gradient in Ghana’s Eastern Region
Odonatologica, vol. 47, no. 1/2, pp. 73-100Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1239947
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10540/1/Seidu_et_al.pdf
Signatures of local adaptation along environmental gradients in a range-expanding damselfly (Ischnura elegans)
Molecular Ecology, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 2576-2593Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRange shifting species reduce phylogenetic diversity in high latitude communities via competition
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 543-555Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12655
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10299/1/Fitt_Lancaster_JAE_1_.pdf
Do group dynamics affect colour morph clines during a range shift?
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 728-737Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOdonata community structure and patterns of land use in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Region (Ghana)
International Journal of Odonatology, vol. 20, no. 3-4, pp. 173-189Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13887890.2017.1369179
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11214/1/Issah_et_al_2017.pdf