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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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Phylogenetic inference of reciprocal effects between geographic range evolution and diversification
Systematic Biology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 451-465Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syr046
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Epistatic social and endocrine networks and the evolution of life history trade-offs and plasticity
Mechanisms of Life History Evolution: The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs. OXFORD UNIV PRESSChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMolecular evolutionary rates predict both extinction and speciation in temperate angiosperm lineages
BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 10, 162Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-162
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3914/1/Molecular_evolutionary_rates.pdf
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Maternal adjustment of egg size organizes alternative escape behaviors, promoting adaptive phenotypic integration
Evolution, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 1607-1621Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00941.x
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Female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits increases offspring survival
Behavioral Ecology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 993-999Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp088
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The role of pleiotropy vs signaller-receiver gene epistasis in life history trade-offs: Dissecting the genomic architecture of organismal design in social systems
Heredity, vol. 101, no. 3, pp. 197-211Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2008.64
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Corticosterone manipulation reveals differences in hierarchical organization of multidimensional reproductive trade-offs in r-strategist and K-strategist females
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 556-565Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01478.x
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Gonadotropin hormone modulation of testosterone, immune function, performance, and behavioral trade-offs among male morphs of the lizard Uta stansburiana
The American Naturalist, vol. 171, no. 3, pp. 339-357Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAdaptive social and maternal induction of antipredator dorsal patterns in a lizard with alternative social strategies
Ecology Letters, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 798-808Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01069.x
Self-recognition, color signals, and cycles of greenbeard mutualism and altruism
PNAS, vol. 103, no. 19, pp. 7372-7377Contributions to Journals: Articles