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

• Wong M.K.L., Lee R.H., Leong C.M., Lewis O.T. & Guénard B. (2022). Trait-mediated competition drives an ant invasion and alters functional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, in press.

• Connolly, J.B., Mumford, J.D., Glandorf, D., Hartley, S., Lewis, O.T., Evans, S.W., Turner, G., Beech, C., Sykes, N., Coulibaly, M.B. and Romeis, J., Teem, J.L., Tonui, W., Lovett, B., Mankad, A., Mnzava, A., Fuchs, S., Hackett, T.D., Landis, W.G., Marshall, J.M. and Aboagye-Antwi, F. (2022). Recommendations for environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications for malaria vector control. Malaria Journal 21, 152.

• Deere, N.J., Bicknell, J.E., Mitchell, S.L., Afendy, A., Baking, E.L., Bernard, H., Chung, A.Y., Ewers, R.M., Heroin, H., Joseph, N., Lewis, O.T., Luke, S.H., Milne, S., Fikri, A.H., Parrett, J.M., Payne, M., Rossiter, S.J., Vairappan, C.S., Vian, C.V., Wilkinson, C.L., Williamson, J., Wong, A.B.H., Slade, E.M., Davies, Z.G., Struebig, M.J. (2021). Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2473

• Williamson, J., Teh, E., Jucker, T., Brindle, M., Bush, E., Chung, A.Y.C., Parrett, J. Lewis, O.T., Rossiter, S. & Slade, E.M. (2022). Local-scale temperature gradients driven by human disturbance shape the physiological and morphological traits of dung beetle communities in a Bornean oil-palm-forest mosaic. Functional Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14062.

News

• Congratulations Emily!
• Research Group Christmas Dinner 2021
• UK Butterflies Outstanding Contribution Award for Will Langdon
• Thesis submitted: Emily Warner