个人简介

2010- Director Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of York 2010- Professor of Ecology Department of Biology, University of York 2009 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer 2004-2010 Professor of Ecology School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex 2001-2004 Reader School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex 1996-2000 Principal Scientific Officer Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Banchory 1993-1996 Royal Society Edinburgh Fellowship Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Banchory 1990-1993 Post-doc Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Banchory 1987-1990 NERC Fellowship University of York 1987 DPhil (Ecology) University of York 1984 BA (Biochemistry) University of Oxford

研究领域

I study the interactions between plants and other organisms, principally insect and mammalian herbivores, but also fungi and parasitic plants. I seek to understand the chemical mechanisms by which plants defend themselves against attack, how they optimise resource allocation to their defences, and the consequences of these defences for the abundance, performance and behaviour of organisms seeking to exploit plants. I am also interested in how plants mediate interactions between organisms which share the same host plant, how such interactions structure ecological communities and how these interactions will respond to environmental change. Current research is focussed on investigating the role of silica-based defences in grasses in driving the population cycles of small mammals using a combination of large-scale field experiments and modelling.

I study the interactions between plants and other organisms, principally insect and mammalian herbivores, but also fungi and parasitic plants. I seek to understand the chemical mechanisms by which plants defend themselves against attack, how they optimise resource allocation to their defences, and the consequences of these defences for the abundance, performance and behaviour of organisms seeking to exploit plants. I am also interested in how plants mediate interactions between organisms which share the same host plant, how such interactions structure ecological communities and how these interactions will respond to environmental change. Current research is focussed on investigating the role of silica-based defences in grasses in driving the population cycles of small mammals using a combination of large-scale field experiments and modelling.

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Massey, F.P and Hartley, S.E. (2006). Experimental demonstration of the anti-herbivore effects of silica in grasses: impacts on foliage digestibility and vole growth rates. Proceedings of the Royal Society 273: 2299-2304. Massey, F.P. Ennos, R. and Hartley S.E. (2007). Herbivore specific induction of silica-based plant defences. Oecologia 152: 677-683 Massey, F.P., Smith M.J., Lambin, X. and Hartley, S.E. (2008). Are silica defences driving vole population cycles? Biology Letters 4: 419-422 Hartley, S.E. and Gange, A.C. (2009). The impacts of plant symbiotic fungi on insect herbivores: mutualism in a multi-trophic context. Annual Review of Entomology 54: 323-342 Eichhorn, M.P., Nilus, R., Compton, S.G., Hartley, S.E., Burslem, D. (2010). Herbivory of tropical rain-forest tree seedlings correlates with future mortality Ecology 91:1092-1101 Bass, K., John, E.A., Ewald, N.C. and Hartley, S.E. (2010). Insect herbivore mortality is increased by competition with hemi-parasitic plants. Functional Ecology 24:1228-1233 Garbuzov, M., Reidinger, S. and Hartley, S.E (2011) Interactive effects of plant available soil silicon and herbivory on competition between two grass species. Annals of Botany 108: 1355-1363. Johnson, S.N., Staley, J.T., McLeod, F.A.L., & Hartley, S.E. (2011) Plant-mediated effects of soil invertebrates and summer drought on above-ground multi-trophic interactions. Journal of Ecology 99: 57-65.