Jones, Hefin - Cardiff University - School of Biosciences

个人简介

I studied for my first degree in Zoology at King’s College, London between 1979 and 1982, and my PhD at Imperial College, London studying insect host-parasitoid interactions. On leaving Silwood Park in 1985 I joined what was then the National Vegetable Research Station (Wellesbourne) (now part of the School of Life Sciences, Warwick University) as a New Initiative Research Fellow to work on the effects of interspecific competition during host plant selection by pest insects. I returned to Silwood Park in 1988, first joining the Silwood Centre for Pest Management and then the Biology Department as a post-doctoral researcher working on the role of spatial heterogeneity in the dynamics of insect host-parasitoid interactions on thistles. In 1994 I was appointed Research Fellow and Project Leader for the Ecotron controlled environment facility at the NERC Centre for Population Biology (CPB) at Silwood Park. I joined Cardiff University in 2000.

研究领域

My research interests are broad, and encompass population and community ecology, climate change and biodiversity. They centre on three main areas: soil biodiversity, concentrating on the interactions between below-ground and above-ground herbivory, the relationship between soil biota diversity and ecosystem processes, and, more recently, interactions between soil organisms; host-parasitoid and insect-plant-natural enemy interactions, mainly concentrating on the interacting insects’ behaviour and relating this to their population and community dynamics; and thirdly, the consequences of climate change on these interspecific interactions. While most of my research has concentrated on terrestrial ecosystems I have recently broadened my interest to include freshwater ecosystems also.

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Sinnadurai, P., Jones, T. H. and Ormerod, S. J. 2016. Squeezed out: the consequences of riparian zone modification for specialist invertebrates. Biodiversity and Conservation 25(14), pp. 3075-3092. (10.1007/s10531-016-1220-9) pdf Evans, L.et al. 2016. Spatial Ecology of Estuarine Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) Nesting in a Fragmented Landscape. Sensors 16(9), pp. 1527. (10.3390/s16091527) pdf Hentley, W.et al. 2016. Antagonistic interactions between an invasive alien and a native coccinellid species may promote coexistence. Journal of Animal Ecology 85(4), pp. 1087-1097. (10.1111/1365-2656.12519) McKenzie, S.et al. 2016. Root herbivores drive changes to plant primary chemistry, but root loss is mitigated under elevated atmospheric CO2. Frontiers in Plant Science 7 (10.3389/fpls.2016.00837) pdf Evans, I.et al. 2015. Use of drone technology as a tool for behavioral research: A case study of crocodilian nesting. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10(1), pp. 90-98. Vafidis, J.et al. 2014. Habitat use and body mass regulation among warblers in the Sahel Region during the non-breeding season. PLoS ONE 9(11), article number: e113665. (10.1371/journal.pone.0113665) pdf A'Bear, A. D., Jones, T. H. and Boddy, L. 2014. Size matters: what have we learnt from microcosm studies of decomposer fungus-invertebrate interactions?. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 78, pp. 274-283. (10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.08.009) Seward, A.et al. 2014. The impact of increased food availability on reproduction in a long-distance migratory songbird: Implications for environmental change?. PLoS ONE 9(10), article number: e111180. (10.1371/journal.pone.0111180) pdf A'Bear, A.et al. 2014. Interactive effects of temperature and soil moisture on fungal-mediated wood decomposition and extracellular enzyme activity. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 70, pp. 151-158. (10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.12.017) Vidal Quist, J.et al. 2014. Arabidopsis thaliana and Pisum sativum models demonstrate that root colonization is an intrinsic trait of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria. Microbiology 160(2), pp. 373-384. (10.1099/mic.0.074351-0)