Editorial Profiles
Rob Freckleton, University of Sheffield
Executive Editor
My research focuses on modelling population and community dynamics, and testing these using observational and comparative data. I have a range of interests including plant population ecology, modelling plant populations and predicting weed population dynamics; evolutionary ecology, phylogenetic comparative methodology and its application to ecological problems; theoretical ecology and statistical methodology.
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Graziella Iossa, British Ecological Society
Journal Coordinator
I oversee the management of the journal, deal with the online submission process of the manuscripts and lead the development of the website and online tools. I am a zoologist and behavioural ecologist by training, have an academic background and am enthusiastic about ecological science. I have also developed an educational website and I have a keen interest to exploit the possibilities that web technologies offer to disseminate research.
Gabriel Bowen, Purdue University
Associate Editor
My research interests centre on the application of light stable isotopes as tracers and recorders of ecological and climatological processes. I have worked extensively on the spatial and temporal distribution of H and O isotopes in hydrological systems, developing statistical and process-based models for the prediction of landscape-level patterns (isoscapes) in these systems. My recent work has focused on developing mechanistic understanding of the assimilation of environmental H and O isotope signatures by heterotrophic organisms to support the use of these isotope systems as tracers of migration, dietary ecology, and environmental indicators.
Dan Faith, Australian Museum
Associate Editor
My research integrates biodiversity and systematics, including "biodiversity informatics". Much of my research is concerned with theory and applications of quantitative biodiversity assessment. This work extends from the scale of genes to whole countries. Special emphasis has been given to the links from biodiversity assessment to sustainability and economics. Applied biodiversity research also includes work on methods for detecting environmental impacts. A phylogenetic component of my biodiversity research arises through investigations of "phylogenetic diversity" and conservation.
Thomas Hansen, University of Oslo
Associate Editor
I am a theoretical biologist with general interests in evolutionary biology. Most of my current research takes place at the interface between evolutionary genetics and trait adaptation. I have interests in a number of methodological and foundational issues in evolutionary theory. These include comparative methods, evolutionary time-series analysis, conceptualization and measurement of selection, evolvability, adaptation and fitness, conceptualization and measurement of genetic architecture including epistasis and pleiotropy, evolutionary quantitative genetics, and the relationship between micro- and macroevolution. I have a particular interest in measurement theory, which is a mathematical/philosophical/practical field concerned with the meaningfulness of quantification in the form of numbers, models, and statistics.
Luke Harmon, University of Idaho
Associate Editor
My research focuses on developing new comparative methods and applying them to large phylogenetic datasets. Ongoing progress in building the tree of life provides a rare opportunity to learn about the dynamics of diversification through time and across clades. Current projects in my lab are focused on testing hypotheses about trait evolution, diversification, and adaptive radiation using statitical comparative methods. I am also interested in the interface between quantitative genetics and comparative methods.
Dave Hodgson, University of Exeter
Associate Editor
I am a quantitative ecologist, with a research focus in two fields. I study the maintenance of phenotypic variation in natural systems, such as viruses in insects, antiherbivore metabolites in plants, life history variation in Daphnia, and niche specialists in bacterial microcosms. I also study the robustness of empirical models of population and community dynamics, with application to strategies of conservation management and the sustainable exploitation of natural resources. My overarching goal is to help lend ecology a predictive framework, and to explain (and conserve) biodiversity. I also maintain a sideline in the use of modern statistical analyses for hypothesis testing in the fields of evolutionary, population and environmental ecology.
Nick Isaac, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Associate Editor
I am interested in questions about the abundance, distributions, diversity and extinction risk of species. My research generally involves data that are structured in space, time and/or phylogenetically. I started out using the traditional approach in macroecology of ‘one value per species’, but increasingly I use multilevel models to explore patterns along multiple axes (space, time, species) and at a range of scales. Much of my work has involved developing new methods and/or comparing their statistical properties with existing approaches. Historically I used data on mammals and other vertebrates, but these days I work mostly on insects.
Jana McPherson, University of Dalhousie
Associate Editor
My research interests revolve around species ranges: figuring out where they are and how they change, what limits them, how humans affect and alter them and what impact that has on biodiversity patterns, ecosystem services and, in particular, resilience. I work in terrestrial as well as marine systems at local to global scales. To date, my primary tools have been species distribution models, but also traditional fieldwork, the capture of traditional knowledge, large collaborative database compilations and the development of analytical methods to extract quantitative information from anecdotal and opportunistically collected data.
Jane Molofsky, University of Vermont
Associate Editor
I am a plant ecologist interested in the dynamics and structure of populations and communities. In my research, I combine experimental and theoretical approaches. My current research focuses on the predicted dynamics of weedy populations and the evolution of invasiveness in introduced plant populations.
David Murrell, University College London
Associate Editor
I have a broad range of interests within ecology and evolution, but mostly consider ecological and evolutionary dynamics that are driven by interactions between organisms. The central theme that unites all of my work to date is understanding the processes that maintain high levels of biodiversity we see in nature. I have used stochastic models and mathematical approximations to generate hypotheses and predictions about populations and communities (especially plants), and I am now starting to challenge these ideas with individual-based datasets from natural communities. Since most of my theory is spatially explicit, I have concentrated on plant communities; but the techniques in moment closure I have helped develop allow mathematical insight into models that could once only be simulated, and are applicable to a wide range of ecological and evolutionary problems.
David Orme, Imperial College
Associate Editor
I am interested in a range of questions about the geographic and phylogenetic distribution of biodiversity. I typically use broad macroecological and macroevolutionary approaches to explore the factors associated with levels of diversity. Much of my recent work has been based on global vertebrate diversity, where both range maps and phylogenetic associations are well enough known to support detailed analyses. I am also interested in investigating the dynamics of species ranges and how they are controlled by species traits and the environment.
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, University of California
Associate Editor
My research interests encompass methods, algorithms and software for statistical analysis, inference and hypothesis testing on molecular sequence data. In particular, I am interested in unique challenges posed by studying the evolution of HIV and other RNA viruses, with their extreme mutation and recombination rates, multiple adaptive mechanisms and computational difficulties involved in the analysis of very large molecular datasets.
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Emmanuel Paradis, Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution
Associate Editor
My research is centred on the investigation of evolutionary processes with phylogenetic trees at different scales of time and of biological complexity. Evolution connects all living beings through ancestor–descendant relationships with modification of their traits. My approach is to collect data and analyse them to test hypotheses on the dynamics of these relationships. Since 1997, the development of statistical and computing tools for these analyses has been an important component of my work. My contributions may be grouped in three topics: phylogenetic diversification, phylogenetic analysis of comparative data and coalescence and past population dynamics. My past research was on population dynamics of small mammals and of birds, chaos in (meta)population models, and the evolution of dispersal.
Pedro Peres-Neto, Université du Québec à Montréal
Associate Editor
My research interests lie at the interface of community and quantitative ecology, incorporating principles from a diverse suite of areas including spatial ecology, multivariate statistics, aquatic ecology, ecomorphology and evolution. Examining the roles of multiple ecological factors in driving species distributions and community structure relies heavily on quantitative methods to detect statistical patterns in data. I am interested in developing and assessing the performance of quantitative frameworks where different sources of information based on observational and experimental approaches can be embedded and analyzed jointly.
Oliver Pybus, University of Oxford
Associate Editor
I am interested in the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of infectious diseases, particularly pathogenic RNA viruses. My current research concerns (i) the molecular epidemiology and epidemic history of HIV and the hepatitis C virus, (ii) viral adaptation and natural selection, (iii) the evolutionary behaviour of influenza, (iv) the evolution of endogenous retroviruses, and (v) phylogenetic and population genetic methods of gene sequence analysis. More generally, I am interested in topics at the interface between ecology and evolution such as adaptive radiation, speciation, and molecular ecology.
Satu Ramula, Lund University
Associate Editor
I am a plant ecologist interested in applying quantitative methods to ecological and evolutionary questions from species interactions to management. My research focuses on understanding patterns and processes in plant population dynamics with special emphasis on invasive species and their management. One of my research aims is to produce management solutions for invaders based on modelling and experimental approaches. I also study demographic models, such as deterministic and stochastic structured models, and their applicability for small demographic data sets.
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Sean Rands, University of Bristol
Associate Editor
I'm a behavioural ecologist, and am fascinated by the intricacies of the behavioural and life history decision-making processes involved when organisms interact with each other and with the environment, which I test with a range of theoretical and empirical techniques. These interactions include the social interactions between members of groups, the intimate relationships between parasites and hosts, pollinators and plants, predators and prey, and between parents and their offspring.
Mark Rees, University of Sheffield
Associate Editor
I am interested in a wide range of ecological and evolutionary problems. The methods I use range from simple analytical models for single and multi-species population dynamics, through to evolutionarily stable strategy models for the evolution of plant traits and more complex structured models, in particular integral projection models. These more complex models allow individuals to be characterised by multiple traits, competition between individuals and stochasticity in the environment. These models have been used to address a range of life-history problems using field data to parameterise the models. In a more applied setting I have used models to explore the dynamics and control of invasive weeds. In addition to this I am also interested in statistical estimation problems related to the analysis and interpretation of ecological experiments.
Andy Tatem, University of Florida
Associate Editor
I study how local, regional and global patterns of human movement affect the movement of pests, pathogens and vector species, such as imported malaria and disease-carrying invasive mosquitoes. I also research the application of satellite-imagery based solutions to public health problems and the optimization of population and urbanization mapping for malaria burden estimation. I am interested in how the increasing mobility of humans and growth in global trade are reducing geographical barriers to the movement of pathogens and exotic species.
David Warton, The University of New South Wales
Associate Editor
My research is at the interface between ecology and statistics. Statistics is a rapidly changing field, and modern methods enable important ecological research questions to be answered that were previously difficult or impossible to address. I develop new data analysis methodologies, and increase awareness in ecology and related disciplines of existing methodologies. Particular interests include multivariate analysis, especially model-based approaches for studying the environment-community association; species distribution modelling, especially model selection approaches; and estimation and inference about allometric lines.
Nigel Yoccoz, University of Tromsø
Associate Editor
I am a statistical ecologist studying structure and dynamics of populations to ecosystems, particularly in northern areas and in connection with climatic change. I have broad research interests in how statistics can contribute to progress in science and society.
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