
Emeritus Professor Gareth Jones
B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Stir.)
Current positions
Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
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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
Resource partitioning between the cryptic species Brandt's bat (Myotisbrandtii)and the whiskered bat(M.mystacinus)in the UK
Supervisors
Habitat use by foraging bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in southern Italy determined by broad-band acoustic surveys and radiotracking.
Supervisors
Autumnal swarming of bats (Chiroptera) in Britain
Supervisors
Evaluating methods to deter bats
Supervisors
Investigating the effects of management in temperate broadleaved woodland on bats and their insect prey
Supervisors
Understanding human-elephant interactions in and around Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana
Supervisors
Some effects of modern lighting technologies on bat activity and potential for mitigation
Supervisors
An integrated approach to the taxonomy of hipposiderid bats in South Asia
Supervisors
Spatial ecology and conservation management of the endangered sandhill dunnart, Sminthopsis psammophila
Supervisors
Informing effective captive management of Critically Endangered Livingstone’s fruit bats (Pteropus livingstonii)
Supervisors
Developing Two Non-invasive Survey Methods for Freshwater Ecosystems
Supervisors
Assessing hybridization between Morelet’s crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) and American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in Belize using genome wide markers
Supervisors
The translocation of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) to the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Supervisors
Behavioural Response to Juvenile Distress Calls as a Measure of Extended Care in Crocodilians
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Social and genetic drivers of behaviour and life history in horseshoe bats
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Designing LED lights that minimise the attraction of nocturnal, blood-feeding Diptera
Supervisors
Does the abundance of flying insects drive activity and population change in insectivorous bats?
Supervisors
Bolstering the wild populations of white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes, through captive breeding, rearing and release of juveniles into favourable in-situ habitats
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Differential gene expression and morphological variation in tequila bats (Leptonycteris yerabauenae)
Supervisors
Conservation genomics of the endangered Seychelles magpie robin (Copsychus sechellarum)
Supervisors
The impacts and implications of solar farms for bats and invertebrates in England
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




