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

• Weissflog A., Markesteijn L., Lewis O.T., Comita L.S., Engelbrecht, B.M.J. (2017) Contrasting patterns of insect herbivory and predation pressure across a tropical rainfall gradient. Biotropica, in press. Data at Dryad Digital Repository https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vq8h7

• Manning, P., Beynon, S.A. & Lewis, O.T. (2017). Quantifying immediate and delayed effects of anthelmintic exposure on ecosystem functioning supported by a common dung beetle species. PloS One 12 (8), e0182730.

• Staniczenko, P.P.A., Lewis, O.T., Tylianakis, J.M., Albrecht, M., Coudrain,V., Klein, A-M., Reed-Tsochas, F. (2017). Predicting the effect of habitat modification on networks of interacting species. Nature Communications, 8, 792. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00913-w

• Slade, E. M., Kirwan, L., Bell, T., Philipson, C., Lewis, O. T., & Roslin, T. (2017). The importance of species identity and interactions for multifunctionality depends on how ecosystem functions are valued. Ecology 98, 2626–2639. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1954

News

• Welcome to Nicky Stanek
• Predicting the effects of habitat modification on networks of interacting species
• Welcome to new DPhil student Mark Wong who joins the research group this week
• Visiting para-ecologists from Papua New Guinea