Professor Gareth Jones
B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Stir.)
Current positions
Professor of Biological Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Contact
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Research interests
Topics I am interested in:
- Echolocation
- Conservation biology
- Social behaviour
- Molecular ecology: phylogeny, population structure and kinship
- Interactions between echolocating bats and prey that can hear ultrasound
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Past, present and future of bats in Western and Central India ￃﾃￂﾢￃﾂￂﾀￃﾂￂﾓ impact and implications of climate change on species ranges
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/2017 to 31/03/2021
Experimental approaches to determine the impacts of light pollution: field studies on bats and insects
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/07/2012 to 01/03/2016
MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND SENSORY PERFORMANCE IN BATS
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/2009 to 01/07/2012
GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF POLYGYNY IN A COLONIAL PHYKOPATRIC MAMMAL
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
19/10/2000 to 19/10/2003
THE EFFECT OF FLIGHT SPEED ON SIGNAL STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE IN FOUR SPECIES OF ECHOLOCATING AERIAL INSECTIVOROUS BAT
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/2000 to 01/11/2003
Thesis supervisions
Habitat use by foraging bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in southern Italy determined by broad-band acoustic surveys and radiotracking.
Supervisors
Resource partitioning between the cryptic species Brandt's bat (Myotisbrandtii)and the whiskered bat(M.mystacinus)in the UK
Supervisors
Autumnal swarming of bats (Chiroptera) in Britain
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
09/01/2024Applying genomic approaches to identify historic population declines in European forest bats
Journal of Applied Ecology
Bat diversity boosts ecosystem services
Science of The Total Environment
Climate is changing, are European bats too?
Ecology and Evolution
Higher and bigger
Science of The Total Environment
Population genetic structure of Morelet’s and American crocodiles in Belize
Conservation Genetics
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School of Biological Sciences