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Professor Kevin J Gaston
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Research focuses on the fields of biodiversity and macroecology, with as a central unifying theme the study of variation in the geographic distributions of species. Particular emphasis is given to geographic (or macro) scale patterns and dynamics, and their consequences for conservation.
Editor: Functional Ecology (1998-2004)
Editorial Board: Basic and Applied Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Avian Conservation and Ecology
Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award (2006-present)
Professor Extraordinary in Zoology, University of Stellenbosch (2002-present)
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London (1999-present)
Honorary Research Fellow, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College (1998-present)
Ecology Institute IRPE (International Recognition of Professional Excellence) Prize (1999)
For further details on any of group members see BIOME webpage.
Dr Zoe Davies
Measurement, Mapping, Modelling, Management (4M): An evidence-based methodology for understanding and shrinking the urban carbon footprint
Dr Martin Dallimer
URSULA (Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living Agendas)
Dr Jill Edmondson
Measurement, Mapping, Modelling, Management (4M): An evidence-based methodology for understanding and shrinking the urban carbon footprint
Dr Felix Eigenbrod
The linkages between ecosystem services, biodiversity and protected areas in Britain
Dr Barbara Goettsch
Global Cactus Assessment
Charlotte Bell
The performance of protected areas at regional scales in the UK
Colin Bonnington
Squirrels in suburbia: the avian impacts of urban grey squirrels
Daniel Dίaz Porras
Historical urban ecology, green spaces and biodiversity
Khaled Salem Etayeb
The ecology of dippers in urbanized areas
Hanna Smith
Pattern and process at forest boundaries: implications for climate change and biodiversity
Sarah McCormack
Measurement, Mapping, Modelling, Management (4M): An evidence-based methodology for understanding and shrinking the urban carbon footprint
Orme, C.D.L., Davies, R.G., Burgess, M., Eigenbrod, F., Pickup, N., Olson, V., Webster, A.J., Ding, T-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ridgely, R.S., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Owens, I.P.F. 2005. Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat. Nature 436, 1016-1019.
Webb, T.J., Woodward, F.I., Hannah, L. & Gaston, K.J. 2005. Forest cover-rainfall relationships in a biodiversity hotspot: the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Ecological Applications 15, 1968-1983.
Williamson, M. & Gaston, K.J. 2005. The lognormal distribution is not an appropriate null hypothesis for the species-abundance distribution. Journal of Animal Ecology 74, 409-422.
Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. & Gaston, K.J. 2006. Variations on a theme: sources of heterogeneity in the form of the interspecific relationship between abundance and distribution. Journal of Animal Ecology 75, 1426-1439.
Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Olson, V., Thomas, G.H., Ross, S.G., Ding, T-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Owens, I.P.F. & Gaston, K.J. 2006. Human impacts and the global distribution of extinction risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 273, 2127-2133.
Evans, K.L., Jackson, S.F., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2006. Species traits and the form of individual species-energy relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 273, 1779-1787.
Gaston, K.J., Charman, K., Jackson, S.F., Armsworth, P.R., Bonn, A., Briers, R.A., Callaghan, C.S.Q., Catchpole, R., Hopkins, J., Kunin, W.E., Latham, J., Opdam, P., Stoneman, R., Stroud, D.A. & Tratt, R. 2006. The ecological effectiveness of protected areas: the United Kingdom. Biological Conservation 132, 76-87.
Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Jackson, S.F., Thomas, G.H., Davies, R.G., Davies, T.J., Jones, K.E., Olson, V.A., Ridgely, R.S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ding, T-S., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Gittleman, J.L. & Owens, I.P.F. 2006. The global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature 444, 93-96.
Mora, C., Andréfouët, S., Costello, M.J., Kranenburg, C., Rollo, A., Veron, J., Gaston, K.J. & Myers, R.A. 2006. Coral reefs and the global network of marine protected areas. Science 312, 1750-1751.
Orme, C.D.L., Davies, R.G., Olson, V.A., Thomas, G.H., Ding, T-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ridgely, R.S., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Owens, I.P.F., Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. 2006. Global patterns of geographic range size in birds. PLoS Biology 4, 1276-1283.
Petchey, O.L. & Gaston, K.J. 2006. Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. Ecology Letters 9, 741-758.
Storch, D., Davies, R.G., Zajíček, S., Orme, C.D.L., Olson, V., Thomas, G.H., Ding, T-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ridgely, R.S., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Owens, I.P.F. & Gaston, K.J. 2006. Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversity. Ecology Letters 9, 1308-1320.
Webb, T.J., Gaston, K.J., Hannah, L. & Woodward, F.I. 2006. Coincident scales of forest feedback on climate and conservation in a diversity hot spot. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 273, 757-765.
Bebber, D.P., Marriott, F.H.C., Gaston, K.J., Harris, S.A. & Scotland, R.W. 2007. Predicting unknown species numbers using discovery curves. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 274, 1651-1658.
Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Storch, D., Olson, V.A., Thomas, G.H., Ross, S.G., Ding, T-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Bennett, P.M., Owens, I.P.F., Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. 2007. Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 274, 1189-1197.
Fuller, R.A., Irvine, K.N., Devine-Wright, P., Warren, P.H. & Gaston, K.J. 2007. Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity. Biology Letters 3, 390-394.
Fuller, R.A., Warren, P.H. & Gaston, K.J. 2007. Daytime noise predicts nocturnal singing in urban robins. Biology Letters 3, 368-370.
Gaston, K.J., Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Olson, V.A., Thomas, G.H., Ding, T-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Lennon, J.J., Bennett, P.M., Owens, I.P.F. & Blackburn, T.M. 2007. Spatial turnover in the global avifauna. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 274, 1567-1574.
Petchey, O.L., Evans, K.L., Fishburn, I.S. & Gaston, K.J. 2007. Low functional diversity and no redundancy in British avian assemblages. Journal of Animal Ecology 76, 977-985.
Phillimore, A.B., Orme, C.D.L., Davies, R.G., Hadfield, J.D., Reed, W.J., Gaston, K.J., Freckleton, R.P., & Owens, I.P.F. 2007. Biogeographical basis of recent phenotypic divergence among birds: A global study of subspecies richness. Evolution 61, 942-957.
Tratalos, J., Fuller, R.A., Evans, K.L., Davies, R.G., Newson, S.E., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2007. Bird densities are associated with household densities. Global Change Biology 13, 1685-1695.
Chown, S.L. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Macrophysiology for a changing world. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 275, 1469-1478.
Evans, K.L., Newson, S., Storch, D., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Spatial scale, abundance and the species-energy relationship in British birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 395-405.
Gaston, K.J., Chown, S.L. & Evans, K.L. 2008. Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis. Journal of Biogeography 35, 483-500.
Gaston, K.J. & Fuller, R.A. 2008. Commonness, population depletion and conservation biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23, 14-19.
Gaston, K.J., Jackson, S.F., Cantú-Salazar, L. & Cruz-Piñón, G. 2008. The ecological performance of protected areas. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 39, 93-113.
Gaston, K.J., Jackson, S.F., Nagy, A., Cantú-Salazar, L. & Johnson, M. 2008. Protected areas in Europe: principle and practice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134, 97-119.
Guilhaumon, F., Gimenez, O., Gaston, K.J. & Mouillot, D. 2009. Taxonomic and regional uncertainty in species-area relationships and the identification of richness hotspots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105, 15458-15463.
Jackson, S.F. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Incorporating public and private land in conservation planning: the ecological effectiveness of protected areas in Britain. Ecological Applications 18, 1050-1060.
Jackson, S.F. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Land use change and the dependence of national priority species on protected areas. Global Change Biology 14, 2132-2138.
Mace, G.M., Collar, N.J., Gaston, K.J., Hilton-Taylor, C., Akçakaya, H.R., Leader-Williams, N., Milner-Gulland, E.J. & Stuart, S.N. 2008. Quantification of extinction risk: IUCN´s system for classifying threatened species. Conservation Biology 22, 1424-1442.
Newson, S.E., Evans, K.L., Noble, D.G. Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Use of distance sampling to improve estimates of national population sizes for common and widespread breeding birds in the UK. Journal of Applied Ecology 45, 1330-1338.
Phillimore, A.B., Orme, C.D.L., Thomas, G.H., Blackburn, T.M., Bennett, P.M., Gaston, K.J. & Owens, I.P.F. 2008. Sympatric speciation in birds is rare: insights from range data and simulations. American Naturalist 171, 646-657.
Storch, D., Šizling, A.L., Reif, J., Polechová, J., Šizlingová, E. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scales. Ecology Letters 11, 771-784.
Anderson, B.J., Armsworth, P.R., Eigenbrod, F., Thomas, C.D., Gillings, S., Heinemeyer, A., Roy, D.B. & Gaston, K.J. 2009. Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities. Journal of Applied Ecology 46, 888-896.
Dallimer, M., Acs, S., Hanley, N., Wilson, P., Gaston, K.J. & Armsworth, P.R. 2009. What explains property-level variation in avian diversity? An inter-disciplinary approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 46, 647-656.
Davies, Z.G., Fuller, R.A., Loram, A., Irvine, K.N., Sims, V. & Gaston, K.J. 2009. A national scale inventory of resource provision for biodiversity within domestic gardens. Biological Conservation 142, 761-771.
Eigenbrod, F., Anderson, B.J., Armsworth, P.R., Heinemeyer, A., Jackson, S.F., Parnell, M., Thomas, C.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2009. Ecosystem service benefits of contrasting conservation strategies in a human-dominated region. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 276, 2903-2911.
Evans, K.L., Gaston, K.J., Frantz, A.C., Simeoni, M., Sharp, S.P., McGowan, A., Dawson, D.A., Walasz, K., Partecke, J., Burke, T. & Hatchwell, B.J. 2009. Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest bird specialist. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 276, 2403-2410.
Fishburn, I.S., Kareiva, P., Gaston, K.J., Evans, K.L. & Armsworth, P.R. 2009. State-level variation in conservation investment by a major nongovernmental organisation. Conservation Letters 2, 74-81.
Fuller, R.A. & Gaston, K.J. 2009. The scaling of green space coverage in European cities. Biology Letters 5, 352-355.
Gaston, K.J. 2009. Geographic range limits: achieving synthesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276, 1395-1406.
Gaston, K.J., Chown, S.L., Calosi, P., Bernardo. J., Bilton, D.T., Clarke, A., Clusella-Trullas, S., Ghalambor, C.K., Konarzewski, M., Peck, L.S., Porter, W.P., Pörtner, H.O., Rezende, E.L., Schulte, P.M., Spicer, J.I., Stillman, J., Terblanche, J.S. & van Kleunen, M. 2009. Macrophysiology: a conceptual re-unification. American Naturalist 174, 595-612.
Gaston, K.J. & Fuller, R.A. 2009. The sizes of species´ geographic ranges. Journal of Applied Ecology 46, 1-9.
Jackson, S.F., Walker, K. & Gaston, K.J. 2009. Relationship between distributions of threatened plants and protected areas in Britain. Biological Conservation 142, 1515-1522.
Mora, C., Myers, R.A., Col, M., Libralato, S., Pitcher, T.J., Sumaila, R.U., Zeller, D., Watson, R., Gaston, K.J. & Worm, B. 2009. Management effectiveness of the world´s marine fisheries. PLoS Biology 7, e1000131.
Olson, V.A., Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Thomas, G.H., Meiri, S., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. Owens, I.P.F. & Bennett, P.M. 2009. Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds. Ecology Letters 12, 249-259.
Šizling, A.L., Šizlingová, E., Storch, D., Reif, J. & Gaston, K.J. 2009. Rarity, commonness and the contribution of individual species to species richness patterns. American Naturalist 174, 82-93.
Šizling, A.L., Storch, D., Šizlingová, E., Reif, J. & Gaston, K.J. 2009. Species abundance distribution results from a spatial analogy of central limit theorem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 106, 6691-6695.
Acs, S., Hanley, N., Dallimer, M., Gaston, K.J., Robertson, P., Wilson, P. & Armsworth, P.R. 2010. The effect of decoupling on marginal agricultural systems: implications for farm incomes, land use and upland ecology. Land Use Policy 27, 550-563.
Armsworth, P.R., Armsworth, A.N., Compton, N., Cottle, P., Davies, I., Emmett, B.A., Fandrich, V., Foote, M., Gaston, K.J., Gardiner, P., Hess, T., Hopkins, J., Horsley, N., Leaver, N., Maynard, T., Shannon, D. 2010. The ecological research needs of business. Journal of Applied Ecology 47, 235-243.
Eigenbrod, F., Armsworth, P.R., Anderson, B.J., Heinemeyer, A., Gillings, S., Roy, D.B., Thomas, C.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2010. The impact of proxy-based methods on mapping the distribution of ecosystem services. Journal of Applied Ecology 47, 377-385.
Smith, R.M., Thompson, K., Warren, P.H. & Gaston, K.J. 2010. Urban domestic gardens (XIII): composition of the bryophyte and lichen floras, and determinants of species richness. Biological Conservation 143, 873-882.
