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Professor Lesley Lancaster

Professor Lesley Lancaster
Professor Lesley Lancaster
Professor Lesley Lancaster

Personal Chair

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
lesleylancaster@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 274551
School/Department
School of Biological Sciences

Biography

PhD, University of California Santa Cruz, 2008. Dissertation title: Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Organizing Alternative Social and Antipredator Strategies.

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Ananlysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), 2009-2012. Project title: Macroevolutionary causes of regional and habitat-based biodiversity gradients.

Postdoctoral associate, Lund University, 2012-2013. Project title: Adaptation at range limits in Ischnura elegans.

Lecturer, 51cg, 2013-

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Ecology Research Cluster Lead

SBS Executive Committee

 

External Memberships

Senior editor, Journal of Animal Ecology

Member of British Ecological Society and European Society for Evolutionary Biology

Research

Research Overview

My research focuses on evolution under climate change, and evolutionary processes associated with geographic range limits. I am interested in how social and behavioral factors interact with changing ecological conditions to faciliate or hinder evolutionary change and macroevolutionary processes associated with geographic range shifts and habitat shifts. 

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Biological and Environmental Sciences

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Current Research

Recent work focuses on biogeography, niche evolution, and population- and community-level processes associated with climate change and invasions. My current study systems include Scottish damselflies (Odonata), experimental evolution in seed beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus), and synthesis of global data. 

 

Publications

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  • Do group dynamics affect colour morph clines during a range shift?

    Lancaster, L. T., Dudaniec, R. Y., Hansson, B., Svensson, E. I.
    Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 728-737
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  • Odonata community structure and patterns of land use in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Region (Ghana)

    Seidu, I., Danquah, E., Nsor, C. A., Kwarteng, D. A., Lancaster, L. T.
    International Journal of Odonatology, vol. 20, no. 3-4, pp. 173-189
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  • Warp-speed adaptation to novel hosts after 300 generations of enforced dietary specialisation in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

    Price, T., Leonard, A., Lancaster, L. T.
    European Journal of Entomology, vol. 114, pp. 257-266
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  • Life history trade-offs, the intensity of competition, and coexistence in novel and evolving communities under climate change

    Lancaster, L. T., Morrison, G., Fitt, R. N.
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 372, no. 1712, 20160046
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  • Widespread range expansions shape latitudinal variation in insect thermal limits

    Lancaster, L. T.
    Nature Climate Change, vol. 6, pp. 618-621
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  • Gene expression under thermal stress varies across a geographical range expansion front

    Lancaster, L. T., Dudaniec, R. Y., Chauhan, P., Wellenreuther, M., Svensson, E. I., Hansson, B.
    Molecular Ecology, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1141-1156
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  • Latitudinal shift in thermal niche breadth results from thermal release during a climate-mediated range expansion

    Lancaster, L. T., Dudaniec, R. Y., Hansson, B., Svensson, E. I.
    Journal of Biogeography, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 1953-1963
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  • Maternal and genetic effects on escape: a prospective review

    Lancaster, L. T.
    Escaping From Predators: An Integrative View of Escape Decisions. Cooper, W. E., Blumstein, D. T. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 343-359, 17 pages
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  • Frequency-dependent and correlational selection pressures have conflicting consequences for assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lizard, Uta stansburiana

    Lancaster, L. T., McAdam, A. G., Hipsley, C. A., Sinervo, B. R.
    The American Naturalist, vol. 184, no. 2, pp. 188-197
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  • Origin and diversification of the California flora: re-examining classic hypotheses with molecular phylogenies

    Lancaster, L. T., Kay, K. M.
    Evolution, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1041-54
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