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
06/01/2023The spectral composition of a white light influences its attractiveness to Culex pipiens mosquitoes
Ecology and Evolution
Bats (Plecotus auritus) use contact calls for communication among roost mates
Mammalian Biology
Conservation genomics of the endangered Seychelles Magpie‐Robin (Copsychus sechellarum)
Ibis
Environmental DNA-based methods detect the invasion front of an advancing signal crayfish population
Environmental DNA
Foraging Strategies of Invasive Macaca fascicularis may Promote Plant Invasion in Mauritius
International Journal of Primatology
