Tobias, Joseph - Imperial College London - Department of Life Sciences, Biology, Ecology and Environmental Biology, Microbiology, Zoology

研究领域

My research investigates the processes generating, sustaining and structuring biodiversity. I use a combination of experimental, phylogenetic and spatial mapping approaches to test theory, and to explain microevolutionary and macroevolutionary patterns over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Most of this work uses the world's birds as a study system, but increasingly focuses on other components of biodiversity, from primates and reef fish to insects and plants. I am interested in using these insights to help us predict and manage the response of ecosystems to global change, with applications from biodiversity conservation to environmental policy. Although recent work is global in scope, my main interest lies in tropical systems, especially tropical rainforests. Current areas of interest are: Sensory ecology, signal evolution, and cultural evolution Speciation and diversification Community assembly and species interactions Ecological and functional impacts of climate and land-use change Sustainable management of ecosystem function and services

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Collar NJ, Fishpool LDC, del Hoyo J, Pilgrim JD, Seddon N, Spottiswoode CN, Tobias JAet al., 2016, Toward a scoring system for species delimitation: a response to Remsen, JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY, Vol: 87, Pages: 104-110, ISSN: 0273-8570 Cooney CR, Seddon N, Tobias JA, 2016, Widespread correlations between climatic niche evolution and species diversification in birds, JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY, Vol: 85, Pages: 869-878, ISSN: 0021-8790 Pigot AL, Tobias JA, Jetz W, 2016, Energetic Constraints on Species Coexistence in Birds, PLOS BIOLOGY, Vol: 14, ISSN: 1545-7885 Pigot AL, Tobias JA, Jetz W, 2016, Energetic Constraints on Species Coexistence in Birds, PLOS ONE, Vol: 11, ISSN: 1932-6203 Pigot AL, Trisos CH, Tobias JA, 2016, Functional traits reveal the expansion and packing of ecological niche space underlying an elevational diversity gradient in passerine birds, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 283, ISSN: 0962-8452 Bath E, Wigby S, Vincent C, Tobias JA, Seddon Net al., 2015, Condition, not eyespan, predicts contest outcome in female stalk-eyed flies, Teleopsis dalmanni, Ecology and Evolution, Vol: 5, Pages: 1826-1836 Bregman TP, Lees AC, Seddon N, MacGregor HEA, Darski B, Aleixo A, Bonsall MB, Tobias JAet al., 2015, Species interactions regulate the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystem function in tropical forest fragments, ECOLOGY, Vol: 96, Pages: 2692-2704, ISSN: 0012-9658 Matthews TJ, Sheard C, Cottee-Jones HEW, Bregman TP, Tobias JA, Whittaker RJet al., 2015, Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: A global survey, Oikos, Vol: 124, Pages: 817-826, ISSN: 0030-1299 Pigot AL, Tobias JA, 2015, Dispersal and the transition to sympatry in vertebrates, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol: 282, ISSN: 0962-8452 Tobias JA, 2015, BIODIVERSITY Hidden impacts of logging, NATURE, Vol: 523, Pages: 163-164, ISSN: 0028-0836 Bregman TP, Sekercioglu CH, Tobias JA, 2014, Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation, Biological Conservation, Vol: 169, Pages: 372-383, ISSN: 0006-3207 Edwards DP, Tobias JA, Sheil D, Meijaard E, Laurance WFet al., 2014, Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests., Trends Ecol Evol, Vol: 29, Pages: 511-520 Fayet AL, Tobias JA, Hintzen RE, Seddon Net al., 2014, Immigration and dispersal are key determinants of cultural diversity in a songbird population, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, Vol: 25, Pages: 744-753, ISSN: 1045-2249 Tobias JA, Cornwallis CK, Derryberry EP, Claramunt S, Brumfield RT, Seddon Net al., 2014, Species coexistence and the dynamics of phenotypic evolution in adaptive radiation., Nature, Vol: 506, Pages: 359-363 Tobias JA, Planqué R, Cram DL, Seddon Net al., 2014, Species interactions and the structure of complex communication networks., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Vol: 111, Pages: 1020-1025 Touchton JM, Seddon N, Tobias JA, 2014, Captive rearing experiments confirm song development without learning in a tracheophone suboscine bird., PLoS One, Vol: 9 Trisos CH, Petchey OL, Tobias JA, 2014, Unraveling the interplay of community assembly processes acting on multiple niche axes across spatial scales., Am Nat, Vol: 184, Pages: 593-608 Gonzalez JC, Sheldon BC, Collar NJ, Tobias JAet al., 2013, A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae)., Mol Phylogenet Evol, Vol: 67, Pages: 468-483 Gonzalez JC, Sheldon BC, Tobias JA, 2013, Environmental stability and the evolution of cooperative breeding in hornbills., Proc Biol Sci, Vol: 280 Gonzalez JCT, Sheldon BC, Collar NJ, Tobias JAet al., 2013, Corrigendum to "A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae)" [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 67 (2013) 468-483] (DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.012), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, ISSN: 1055-7903