Dr Sean Rands
BSc ARCS (Imperial, London), PhD (Bristol), FHEA, FLS, FRES
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
Contact
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Research interests
I'm a behavioural ecologist, interested in the evolution of animal behaviour and life histories. I’m happy to consider using a range of theoretical and empirical techniques to address how organisms interact with the environment and with each other, and I enjoy collaboration, so please contact me if you have a question you think I’d be interested in.
Topics I'm interested in:
- Behavioural ecology
- Social behaviour
- Decision-making
- Evolution
- Parasite ecology
For much more information and detail, see my group's website and blog, http://seanrands.com/
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
A STATE-DEPENDENT APPROACH TO PARASITE BEHAVIOUR
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/04/2009 to 01/04/2010
Thesis supervisions
Distribution, abundance and habitat use of the mongoose lemur, Eulemur mongoz, on Anjouan, Comoros
Supervisors
Blinking as a measurement of group vigilance in Red Cervus elaphus and fallow deer Dama dama
Supervisors
Bumblebee's (Bombus terrestris) preference to moving artificial flowers over stationary flowers, and an investigation into flower movement in the wild
Supervisors
The effect of neonicotinoid pesticides on the circadian clock and sleep of fruit flies and bumblebees
Supervisors
East meets west
Supervisors
The impact of turbidity on the foraging ability and risk taking of two cichlid species
Supervisors
Expanding Floral Multimodality
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/08/2019The effects of rainfall on plant-pollinator interactions
Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Bumblebees can detect floral humidity
Journal of Experimental Biology
Neonicotinoids disrupt memory, circadian behaviour and sleep
Scientific Reports
Recent publications
29/05/2024The behavioural responses of bumblebees Bombus terrestris to simulated rain
Royal Society Open Science
The cuticular wax composition and crystal coverage of leaves and petals differ in a consistent manner between plant species
Open Biology
Variations of floral temperature in changing weather conditions
Ecology and Evolution
Personality variation is eroded by simple social behaviours in collective foragers
PLoS Computational Biology
Red deer Cervus elaphus blink more in larger groups
Ecology and Evolution
Thesis
Reserve changes in breeding birds
Supervisors
Award date
01/01/2000