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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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Warp-speed adaptation to novel hosts after 300 generations of enforced dietary specialisation in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)
European Journal of Entomology, vol. 114, pp. 257-266Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLife history trade-offs, the intensity of competition, and coexistence in novel and evolving communities under climate change
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 372, no. 1712, 20160046Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWidespread range expansions shape latitudinal variation in insect thermal limits
Nature Climate Change, vol. 6, pp. 618-621Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2945
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7815/1/6615_5_merged_1452870115.pdf
Gene expression under thermal stress varies across a geographical range expansion front
Molecular Ecology, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1141-1156Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLatitudinal shift in thermal niche breadth results from thermal release during a climate-mediated range expansion
Journal of Biogeography, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 1953-1963Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12553
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Maternal and genetic effects on escape: a prospective review
Escaping From Predators: An Integrative View of Escape Decisions. Cooper, W. E., Blumstein, D. T. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 343-359, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447189.015
Frequency-dependent and correlational selection pressures have conflicting consequences for assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lizard, Uta stansburiana
The American Naturalist, vol. 184, no. 2, pp. 188-197Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/676645
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4737/1/676645.pdf
Origin and diversification of the California flora: re-examining classic hypotheses with molecular phylogenies
Evolution, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1041-54Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12016
Rapid formation of reproductive isolation between two populations of side-blotched lizards, Uta stansburiana
Copeia, no. 4, pp. 593-602Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1643/CH-11-166
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Sensitivity of Spring Phenology to Warming Across Temporal and Spatial Climate Gradients in Two Independent Databases
Ecosystems, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1283-1294Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPhylogenetic 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: ArticlesFunctions and consequences of play behaviour in juvenile Belding's ground squirrels
Animal Behaviour, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 27-37Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlay behavior and motor development in juvenile Belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi)
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 97-105Contributions to Journals: Articles