New PhD projects available to come and work in the Network and Community Ecology Research Group!
Exploring
persistence of ecological networks in anthropogencially modified landscapes
Supervisors: Tom Fayle, Axel Rossberg
Funder: Chinese Scholarship Council
Deadline: 29th January 2025
People-biodiversity
interactions: is the fabric of life unravelling?
Supervisors: Samuel Pironon, Tom Fayle, Kathy Willis, Marybel Soto Gomez
Funder: Chinese Scholarship Council
Deadline: 29th January 2025
Exploring
the impacts of anthropogenic change on networks using microbial microcosms
Supervisors: Tom Fayle, Alexander Fedorec
Funder: NERC TREES Doctoral Landscape Award
Deadline: 20th January 2025
Impacts
of anthropogenic change on rainforest epiphytes due to increased treefalls
Supervisors: Kalsum Yusah, Tom Fayle
Funder: NERC TREES Doctoral Landscape Award
Deadline: 20th January 2025
Some recent publications
Delavaux C.S., Crowther T.W., GFBI consortium of 223 co-authors (including Fayle T.M.) & Maynard D.S. (2023) Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions Nature 621: 773–781 [PDF]
Fayle T.M. & Klimes P. (2022) Improving global estimates of ant biomass and abundance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2214825119 [PDF]
Tuma J., Frouz J., Veselá H., Krivohlavý F. & Fayle T.M. (2022) The impacts of tropical mound-building social insects on soil properties vary across taxa and with habitat degradation. Applied Soil Ecology 179: 104576 [PDF]
Xing S. & Fayle T.M. (2021) The rise of ecological network meta-analyses: problems and prospects. Global Ecology and Conservation 30: e01805 [PDF]
Zahra S., Novotny V. & Fayle T.M. (2021) Do reverse Janzen-Connell effects reduce species diversity? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 387-390 [PDF]
My name is Tom Fayle. I am an ecologist, with interests in community ecology, conservation biology and behavioural ecology. I study how interactions between species build up to form networks, and the manner in which those networks then respond to variation in the environment.