About Us

We are a team of researchers based at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. We study a broad range of interrelated questions in community ecology, with a strong emphasis on empirical work. Our research interests include tropical forest diversity, ecological networks, ecosystem functioning, inter-specific interactions, conservation biology, agro-ecology and the impact of human activities on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. On this website you can find information about our research, the people involved, and our collaborators in Oxford and more widely.

Recent Publications

• Boyes, D.H. & Lewis, O.T. (2018). Ecology of Lepidoptera associated with bird nests in mid-Wales, UK. Ecological Entomology, in press.
  

• Gresty, C.E.A., Clare, E., Devey, D.S., Cowan, R.S., Csiba, L., Malakasi, P., Lewis, O.T. & Willis, K.J. (2018). Flower preferences and pollen transport networks for cavity‐nesting solitary bees: Implications for the design of agri‐environment schemes. Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4234

• de Almeida, A., Morris, R.J., Lewis, O.T., & Mikich, S.B. (2018). Complementary roles of two resilient Neotropical mammalian seed dispersers. Acta Oecologia, 88, 9-18.

• Basset, Y., Dahl, C.,  Ctvrtecka, R., Gripenberg, S., Lewis, O.T  and 24 others. (2018). A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rainforests: faunal composition and rates of attack. Journal of Biogeography, 45, 1395-1407.

News

• Job opportunity – Postdoctoral Researcher on Insect Food Webs
• CERO at the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Kuching, Malaysia
• Welcome to Emily Warner – DPhil studying forest restoration
• Welcome to Talya Hackett