Studies in Longitudinal Analysis of Population Persistence and Evolutionary Demography

We are a group of population biologists interested in conservation, population dynamics and bio-demography. Current projects in the group focus on:

• Understanding factors associated with fluctuations in population size
• Understanding how ecological change generates evolutionary change
• Characterising the ecological consequences of evolutionary change
• Characterising current and predicting future conflict between people and wildlife
• Developing conservation and management strategies for populations and ecosystems
• Developing methods to better monitor populations of cryptic species

• Collect field data from sites in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas
• Apply and develop statistical methods to gain insight from these data
• Use these insights to develop new theory and to devise conservation and management strategies

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Ozgul A, Tuljapurkar S, Benton TG, Pemberton JM, Clutton-Brock TH, Coulson T (2009) The dynamics of phenotypic change and the shrinking sheep of St. Kilda. Science 325: 464-467

Malo AF, Coulson T (2009) Heterozygosity-fitness correlations and associative overdominance: new detection method and proof of principle in the Iberian wild boar. Molecular Ecology 18 (13): 2741-2