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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Epigenetic responses to temperature and climate change
Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 1469-1480Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHost use diversification during range shifts shapes global variation in Lepidopteran dietary breadth
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 963-969Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://rdcu.be/b4ff4
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1199-1
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15374/1/Lancaster_NEE_HostUseDiversification_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Global variation in the thermal tolerances of plants
PNAS, vol. 117, no. 24, pp. 13580-13587Contributions to Journals: ArticlesQuantifying the differences in avian attack rates on reptiles between an infrastructure and a control site
European Journal of Wildlife Research, vol. 66, 54Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMaladaptive plasticity facilitates evolution of thermal tolerance during an experimental range shift
BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 20, 47Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new Editor team
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 4-5Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13165
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
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: Articles