Dr Andrew Higginson

Summary

A full description of research interests are available at my personal website.

Biography

I did my first degree (BSc Hons. Behavioural Science) and PhD at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professor Chris Barnard. My PhD research focussed on the foraging behaviour of honeybees. I spent two years as Teaching Fellow at the University of Derby, then moved to the University of Glasgow to work with Graeme Ruxton on the evolution of antipredator defences. In 2010 I moved to Bristol to work on an EPSRC grant with Alasdair Houston on the evolution of decision making mechanisms.

Memberships

Organisations

School of Biological Sciences

Groups

• Behaviour, Sensory and Neurobiology

Labs

• Modelling Animal Decisions

Links

•   Personal Website

Recent publications

• Fawcett, TW & Higginson, AD 2012, ‘Heavy use of equations impedes communication among biologists’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 109., pp. 11735-11739
• Higginson, AD, Fawcett, TW, Trimmer, PC, McNamara, JM & Houston, AI 2012, ‘Generalized Optimal Risk Allocation: Foraging and Antipredator Behavior in a Fluctuating Environment’. The American Naturalist, vol 180., pp. 589-603
• Houston, A, Trimmer, P, Fawcett, T, Higginson, A, Marshall, J & McNamara, J 2012, ‘Is optimism optimal? Functional causes of apparent behavioural biases’. Behavioural Processes, vol 89., pp. 172 - 178
• Higginson, AD, McNamara, JM & Houston, AI 2012, ‘The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off Predicts Trends in Body Size, Muscularity, and Adiposity between and within Taxa’. The American Naturalist, vol 179., pp. 338-350
• Houston, A, Higginson, A & McNamara, J 2011, ‘Optimal foraging for multiple nutrients in an unpredictable environment’. Ecology Letters, vol 14(11)., pp. 1101 - 1107

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