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

• Terry, J.C.D. and Lewis, O.T. (2020). Finding missing links in interaction networks. Ecology, online early, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/695726).

• Segar, S.T., Fayle, T.M., Srivastava, D.S., Lewinsohn, T.M., Lewis, O.T., Novotny, V., Kitching, R.L., Maunsell, S.C. (2020). The role of evolutionary processes in shaping ecological networks. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.004.

• Jucker, T.,  Jackson, T.,  Zellweger, F., Swinfield, T., Gregory, N., Williamson, J., Slade, E.M., Phillips, J.W., Bittencourt, P.R.L., Blonder, B.,  Boyle, M.J.W., Ellwood, M.D.F., Hemprich-Bennett, D., Lewis, O.T., Matula, R., Senior, R.A., Shenkin, A.F., Svátek, M. and Coomes, D.A. (2020). A research agenda for microclimate ecology in human-modified tropical forests. Frontiers in Forest and Global Change, 2:92. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00092

• Visakorpi, K., Riutta, T., Malhi, Y., Salminen, J-P., Salinas, N. & Gripenberg, S. (2020) No effects of winter moth (Operophtera brumata) herbivory on leaf traits of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), despite clear effects of herbivory on leaf functioning. PLoS ONE, in press.

News

• Lockdown ecology and entomology
• Liam Crowley appointed as Postdoctoral Researcher on the Darwin Tree of Life project
• Michelle d’Souza article on our Target Malaria project in Ghana
• From moth trap to genome sequence – the Darwin Tree of Life project