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.

Some recent publications

Lestina D., Houadria M.Y.I., Gavin J.A., Chung A.Y.C., Yusah K.M., Rindos, M., Schlosserova K., Feldhaar H. & Fayle T.M. (2026) Exploitation of an ant-plant mutualism by a cavity-nesting wasp. PeerJ 14:e20984 [PDF] [media]

Tuma J, Yusah K.M. & Fayle T.M. (2025) Abandoned mounds of soil-feeding termites host diverse soil fauna in both primary and logged tropical forests. Soil Ecology Letters 7:250329 [PDF]

Wu T., Rodrigues A.A., Fayle T.M. & Henry L (2025) Defensive symbiont genotype distributions are linked to parasitoid attack networks Ecology Letters 28:e70082 [PDF]

De Wint F., Zahra S., Koid Q.Q., Lee M., Xing S., Seelan JSS, Klimes P., Fayle T.M. & Haelewater D. (2024) Introducing a global database of entomopathogenic fungi and associations with their hosts. Scientific Data 11:1418 [PDF]

Ewers R.M., consortium of 135 co-authors (including Fayle T.M.), & Banks-Leite C. (2024) Ecological thresholds for adding degraded tropical rainforests to the conservation estate. Nature 631: 808–813 [PDF]