Research

Professor Gareth Jones BSc(Lond), PhD(Stir)

Professor Gareth Jones

Professor of Biological Sciences

Contact details

School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol, Woodland Road
Bristol, BS8 1UG

phone: (0117) 928 7575
email: gareth.jones@bristol.ac.uk

group: Behaviour, Sensory and Neurobiology
lab: Bat Ecology and Bioacoustics

Research

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I work on the Ecology and Behaviour of Bats, where my key research areas are:

  • Echolocation
  • Conservation biology
  • Social behaviour
  • Molecular ecology: phylogeny, population structure and kinship
  • Interactions between echolocating bats and prey that can hear ultrasound

Further information about my research can be found by following this link to the home page of the Bat Ecology and Bioacoustics Laboratory.

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Recent publications

  • Dong, D, Jones, G & Zhang, S. 'Dynamic evolution of bitter taste receptor genes in vertebrates', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9(12), (pp. -), 2009. ISSN: 1471-2148 10.1186/1471-2148-9-12
  • Jones, G. 'Anatomy and physiology of microchiropteran bats', in S. Barnard (Ed.), Bats in Captivity, 1: Biological and Medical Aspects, (pp. 27-38), Logos Press, Washington, DC, 2009. ISBN: 9781934899021
  • Sztencel-Jablonka, A, Jones, G & Bogdanowicz, W. 'Skull morphology of two cryptic bat species: Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus - a 3D morphometrics approach with landmark reconstruction', Acta Chiropterologica, 11, (pp. 113-126), 2009. ISSN: 1508-1109
  • Jones, G, Jacobs, DS, Kunz, TH, Willig, MR & Racey, PA. 'Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators', Endangered Species Research, 8, (pp. 93-115), 2009. ISSN: 1863-5407 10.3354/esr00182
  • Flanders, JR & Jones, G. 'Roost use, ranging behaviour and diet of the greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum using a transitional roost', Journal of Mammalogy, 90(4), (pp. 888-896), 2009. ISSN: 1545-1542
  • Knight, T & Jones, G. 'Importance of night roosts for bat conservation: roosting behaviour of the lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros', Endangered Species Research, 9(1-2), (pp. 79-86), 2009. ISSN: 1863-5407 10.3354/esr00194
  • Redgwell, RD, Szewczak, JM, Jones, G & Parsons, S. 'Classification of echolocation calls from 14 species of bat by support vector machines and ensembles of neural networks', Algorithms, 2(3), (pp. 907-924), 2009. 10.3390/a2030907
  • Chen, S-F, Jones, G & Rossiter, SJ. 'Determinants of echolocation call frequency variation in the Formosan lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus monoceros)', Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, 276(1674), (pp. 3901-3909), 2009. ISSN: 0962-8452 10.1098/rspb.2009.1185
  • Vitorino Rebelo, HE, Tarroso, P & Jones, G. 'Predicted impact of climate change on European bats in relation to their biogeographic patterns', Global Change Biology, (pp. -), 2009. ISSN: 1365-2486 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02021.x
  • Russo, D, Teixeira, S, Cistrone, L, Jesus, J, Teixeira, D, Freitas, T & Jones, G. 'Social calls are subject to stabilizing selection in insular bats', Journal of Biogeography, 36(12), (pp. 2212-2221), 2009. ISSN: 0305-0270 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02158.x

View all publications held on the University of Bristol's IRIS database

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