I am a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, interested in why individuals behave as they do, and the ultimate fitness consequences and proximate mechanisms underlying these behaviours. My research explores the causes of individual variation in behavioural traits across the animal kingdom, using birds as a study species. I am also interested in how individuals adapt to fluctuating environmental conditions and the fitness consequences of different life-history strategies under such variable conditions.
At the EGI, I study bird phenological responses to climate change at continental, population and territorial scales, using long-term datasets from Wytham Woods and other populations across Europe.
behaviour, ecology, evolution, ornithology
