Biology (School of)
The School promotes an interdisciplinary approach to both applied and fundamental research problems and to postgraduate training. Research in the School is organised into three major interdisciplinary centres: the Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI), Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC) and Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD). Together these centres encompass the full spectrum of research in biological sciences, spanning investigations on the properties and behaviour of individual molecules to planetary environmental dynamics.
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The wintering and migration ecology of the whinchat Saxicola rubetra, a declining Palearctic migrant
(University of St Andrews, 2014-12) - ThesisFor migrant birds, the non-breeding season can greatly influence survival and future reproductive success. Knowledge of annual and overwinter survival, the degree of site fidelity and habitat use in the non-breeding season, ... -
Molecular ecological basis of grasshopper (Oedaleus asiaticus) phenotypic plasticity under environmental selection
(2017-10-10) - Journal articleWhile ecological adaptation in insects can be reflected by plasticity of phenotype, determining the causes and molecular mechanisms for phenotypic plasticity (PP) remains a crucial and still difficult question in ecology, ... -
The effects of familiarity on escape responses in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
(2017-10-11) - Journal articlePredation is the main cause of mortality during early life stages. The ability to avoid and evade potential threats is, therefore, favoured to evolve during the early stages of life. It is also during these early stages ... -
Physiological, morphological, and ecological tradeoffs influence vertical habitat use of deep-diving toothed-whales in the Bahamas
(2017-10-11) - Journal articleDive capacity among toothed whales (suborder: Odontoceti) has been shown to generally increase with body mass in a relationship closely linked to the allometric scaling of metabolic rates. However, two odontocete species ... -
Meta-analysis of magnitudes, differences and variation in evolutionary parameters
(2016-10-10) - Journal itemMeta-analysis is increasingly used to synthesise major patterns in the large literatures within ecology and evolution. Meta-analytic methods that do not account for the process of observing data, which we may refer to as ...
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