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, Childs DZ, Oli MK, Armitage KB, Blumstein DT, Olson LE, Tuljapurkar S, Coulson S (2010) Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change. Nature 466: 482:485

Rebke M, Coulson T, Becker PH, et al (2010) Reproductive improvement and senescence in a long-lived bird. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:7841-7846

Hart T, Coulson T, Trathan PN (2010) Time series analysis of biologging data: autocorrelation reveals periodicity of diving behaviour in macaroni penguins. Animal Behaviour 79:845-855

Ezard THG, Coulson T (2010) How sensitive are elasticities of long-run stochastic growth to how environmental variability is modelled? Ecological Modeling 221:191-200