Professor Lesley Lancaster
Personal Chair
- 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
Ecology Research Cluster Lead
SBS Executive Committee
Academic Senator
SBS AthenaSWAN self-assessment team
Senior editor, Journal of Animal Ecology
Member of British Ecological Society and European Society for Evolutionary Biology
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.
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Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism
Struebig, M. J., Aninta, S. G., Voigt, M., Bani, A., Barus, H., Brace, S., Davies, Z. G., Diele, K., Djakiman, C., Djamaluddin, R., Drinkwater, R., Dumbrell, A., Evans, D. M., Fusi, M., Herrera Alsina, L., Iskandar, D., Jompa, J., Juliandi, B., Lancaster, L., Limmon, G., Lo, M., Lupiyaningdyah, P., McCannon, M., Meijaard, E., Mitchell, S., Mumbunan, S., O'Connell, D., Osborne, O., Papadopulos, A., Rahajoe, J. S., Rossiter, S. J., Rustiami, H., Salzmann, U., Sukara, E., Tasirin, J. S., Tjoa, A., Travis, J., Trethowan, L., Trianto, A., Utteridge, T., Voigt, M., Winarni, N., Zakaria, Z., Edwards, D., Frantz, L. A. F., Supriatna, J., Beger, M., De Brauwer, M., Lindawati, , Rugaya, , Sheherazade, , Sudiana, I. M., Rosaria,BioScience, vol. 72, no. 11, pp. 1118-1130Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe missing link in biogeographic reconstruction: Accounting for lineage extinction rewrites history
Herrera Alsina, L., Algar, A. C., Lancaster, L., Ornelas, J. F., Bocedi, G., Papadopulos, A. S., Gubry-Rangin, C., Osborne, O. G., Mynard, P., Sudiana, I. M., Lupiyaningdyah, P., Juliandi, B., Travis, J.Journal of Biogeography, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 1941-1951Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGetting lost in the matrix? On how the characteristics and arrangement of linear landscape elements influence ecological connectivity
Anderson, C., Travis, J., Palmer, S., Crick, H. Q., Lancaster, L.Landscape Ecology, vol. 37, pp. 2503–2517Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvolution of resource generalism via generalized stress response confers increased reproductive thermal tolerance in a pest beetle
Leonard, A., Lancaster, L.Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 137, no. 2, pp. 374–386Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe importance of eco-evolutionary dynamics for predicting and managing insect range shifts
Wellenreuther, M., Dudaniec, R. Y., Neu, A., Lessard, J., Bridle, J., Carbonell, J. A., Diamond, S. E., Marshall, K. E., Parmesan, C., Singer, M. C., Swaegers, J., Thomas, C. D., Lancaster, L. T.Current Opinion in Insect Science, vol. 52, 100939Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPopulation demography maintains biogeographic boundaries
Schmidt, C., Muñoz, G., Lancaster, L. T., Lessard, J. P., Marske, K. A., Marshall, K. E., Garroway, C. J.Ecology Letters, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1905-1913Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFauxcurrence: simulating multi-species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography
Osborne, O., Fell, H., Atkins, H., Vantol, J., Phillips, D., Herrera Alsina, L., Mynard, P., Bocedi, G., Gubry-Rangin, C., Lancaster, L., Creer, S., Nangoy, M., Travis, J., Papadopulos, A., Algar, A. C., Fahri, F., Lupiyaningdyah, P., Sudiana, I. M., Juliandi, B.Ecography, vol. 2022, no. 7, e05880Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNatural and Dammed Rivers: Which is Better for Salmon’s Summer?
Redana, M., Summers, F., Lancaster, L. T.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221753
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Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics
Lancaster, L. T., Fuller, Z. L., Berger, D., Barbour, M. A., Jentoft, S., Wellenreuther, M.Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 91, no. 6, pp. 1056-1063Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13711
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Derive Accurate Water Thermal Maps from UAV-Mounted Thermal Camera for Ecological Application
Redana, M., Summers, F., Lancaster, L. T.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221751
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Latitudinal clines in sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism, and sex-specific genetic dispersal during a poleward range expansion
Dudaniec, R. Y., Carey, A. R., Svensson, E. I., Hansson, B., Yong, C. J., Lancaster, L. T.Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 91, no. 6, pp. 1104-1118Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOn the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift-niche breadth hypothesis
Lancaster, L. T.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 377, no. 1846, 20210013Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0013
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In Memoriam: Barry Sinervo 1961-2021
Svensson, E. I., Blaimont, P., Calsbeek, R., Lancaster, L. T., McAdam, A., Mills, S. C.Evolution, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 385-390Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesJournal journeys: Building on our reputation in animal ecology with new ways to publish
Evans, D. M., Gaillard, J., Lancaster, L. T., Salguero-Gomez, R., Sanders, N. J., Ponton, S. R., Aime, E.Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 90, no. 12, pp. 2724-2725Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13622
Wolbachia-driven selective sweep in a range expanding insect species
Deng, J., Assandri, G., Chauhan, P., Futahashi, R., Galimberti, A., Hansson, B., Lancaster, L. T., Takahashi, Y., Svensson, E., Duplouy, A.Bmc ecology and evolution, vol. 21, 181Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAncient geological dynamics impact neutral biodiversity accumulation and are detectable in phylogenetic reconstructions
Herrera Alsina, L., Algar, A. C., Bocedi, G., Gubry-Rangin, C., Lancaster, L., Mynard, P., Osborne, O., Papadopulos, A. S., Creer, S., Nangoy, M., Fahri, F., Lupiyaningdyah, P., Sudiana, I. M., Juliandi, B., Travis, J.Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1633–1642Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReply to Perez et al.: Experimental duration unlikely to bias global variation in plant thermal tolerances
Lancaster, L. T., Humphreys, A. M.PNAS, vol. 118, no. 30, e2102037118Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102037118
Dispersal Evolution in Currents: spatial sorting promotes philopatry in upstream patches
Allgayer, R., Scarpa, A., Fernandes, P. G., Wright, P. J., Lancaster, L., Bocedi, G., Travis, J.Ecography, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 231-242Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEpigenetic responses to temperature and climate change
Mccaw, B., Stevenson, T. J., Lancaster, L. T.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
Lancaster, L. T.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
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Global variation in the thermal tolerances of plants
Lancaster, L. T., Humphreys, A. M.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
Law, C., Lancaster, L. T., Hall, J., Handy, S., Hinchliffe, M., O’Brien, C., O’Brien, K., Watts, S., O'Brien, D.European Journal of Wildlife Research, vol. 66, 54Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMaladaptive plasticity facilitates evolution of thermal tolerance during an experimental range shift
Leonard, A. M., Lancaster, L. T.BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 20, 47Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new Editor team
Gaillard, J. M., Sanders, N. J., Lancaster, L., Evans, D., Hoggart, S. P., Newton, E. L.Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 4-5Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13165
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Temperature drives pre-reproductive selection and shapes the biogeography of a female polymorphism
Svensson, E. I., Willink, B., Duryea, M. C., Lancaster, L. T.Ecology Letters, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 149-159Contributions to Journals: Articles