Professor Jane Memmott

Summary

My research interests in ecology include pollination ecology, invasion ecology, agro-ecology, biological control, urban ecology and restoration ecology.  A theme that runs through many of my projects is the use of ecological networks to as a tool to answer a variety of environmental questions.  For example does restoration ecology restore ecological function, are ecosystem services affected by farming approach and how do aliens integrate into ecological networks?  I work as both a pure and an applied ecologist and I am particularly keen on working at the interface between the two disciplines.  A wide variety of techniques are used by my research group, from field observation to field experiment, from theory to molecular approaches.

Further information about my research can be found on my lab's webpage.

Memberships

Organisations

School of Biological Sciences

Research groups

• Plant and Agricultural Sciences
• Ecology and Environmental Change

Recent publications

• Lichtenberg, EM, Kennedy, CM, Kremen, C, Batáry, P, Berendse, F, Bommarco, R, Bosque-Pérez, NA, Carvalheiro, LG, Snyder, WE, Williams, NM, Winfree, R, Klatt, BK, Åström, S, Benjamin, F, Brittain, C, Chaplin-Kramer, R, Clough, Y, Danforth, B, Diekötter, T, Eigenbrode, SD, Ekroos, J, Elle, E, Freitas, BM, Fukuda, Y, Gaines-Day, HR, Grab, H, Gratton, C, Holzschuh, A, Isaacs, R, Isaia, M, Jha, S, Jonason, D, Jones, VP, Klein, AM, Krauss, J, Letourneau, DK, Macfadyen, S, Mallinger, RE, Martin, EA, Martinez, E & others 2017, ‘A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes’. Global Change Biology.
• Gillespie, MA, Baude, M, Biesmeijer, J, Boatman, N, Budge, GE, Crowe, A, Memmott, J, Morton, RD, Pietravalle, S, Potts, SG, Senapathi, D, Smart, SM & Kunin, WE, 2017, ‘A method for the objective selection of landscape-scale study regions and sites at the national level’. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
• Vaughan, IP, Gotelli, N, Memmott, J, Pearson, C, Woodward, G & Symondson, WOC, 2017, ‘econullnetr: an R package using null models to analyse the structure of ecological networks and identify resource selection’. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
• Hicks, DM, Ouvrard, P, Baldock, K, Baude, M, Goddard, MA, Kunin, WE, Mitschunas, N, Memmott, J, Morse, H, Maria, N, Osgathorpe, LM, Potts, SG, Robertson, KM, Scott, AV, Sinclair, F, Westbury, D & Stone, GN, 2016, ‘Food for Pollinators: Quantifying the Nectar and Pollen Resources of Urban Flower Meadows’. PLoS ONE, vol 11.
• Emer, C, Memmott, J, Vaughan, IP, Montoya, D & Tylianakis, J, 2016, ‘Species roles in plant–pollinator communities are conserved across native and alien ranges’. Diversity and Distributions, vol 22., pp. 841-852
• Timoteo, SJ, Ramos, JA, Vaughan, I & Memmott, J, 2016, ‘High Resilience of Seed Dispersal Webs Highlighted by the Experimental Removal of the Dominant Disperser’. Current Biology, vol 26., pp. 910-915
• Orford, KA, Murray, P, Vaughan, IP & Memmott, J, 2016, ‘Modest enhancements to conventional grassland diversity improve the provision of pollination services’. Journal of Applied Ecology, vol 53., pp. 906-915
• Memmott, J, Baude, M, Kunin, WE, Boatman, N, Conyers, S, Davies, NE, Gillespie, M, Morton, RD & Smart, SM, 2016, ‘Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain’. Nature, vol 530., pp. 85-88
• Montoya, D, Yallop, ML & Memmott, J, 2015, ‘Functional group diversity increases with modularity in complex food webs’. Nature Communications, vol 6.
• Baldock, KCR, Goddard, MA, Hicks, DM, Kunin, WE, Mitschunas, N, Osgathorpe, LM, Potts, SG, Robertson, KM, Scott, AV, Stone, GN, Vaughan, IP & Memmott, J, 2015, ‘Where is the UK’s pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 282.

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