As part of the Oxford University Press John Fell Fund funded project on behavioural adaptations in the cave orb spider (Meta menardi), the MBIOL student, Emily Brannigan, and myself were lucky enough to observe some opportunistic foraging attempts by a female M....
I have been fortunatete to be invited as an external collaborator in the later stages of a long-term project looking at the population dynamics in two agricultural regions in Egypt over the past 10 years. I was mainly involved in the data analysis and write-up stages....
I’ve recently been made an associate editor on the Royal Entomological Society’s journal Ecological Entomology, which I am very excited about. The journal focusses on the ecology of insects and other arthropods (including spiders) and aims to publish high...
I had the honour of being invited to give an online talk on the behavioural adaptations of cave spiders at the hugely popular interactive entoLIVE webinars organised by the Biological Recording Company, the British Entomological and Natural History Society, the...
A new paper using the comprehensive data-set on the functional traits of European cave spiders that I was involved in a few years ago, have now been published in Global Ecology and Biogeography. In the paper, we took advantage of the very comprehensive data-sets of...
I have been fortunate to be invited as co-author to a study on the effects of heavy metal pollution on the genetic diversity in the grasshopper (Aiolopus thalassinus) from various heavy and less polluted sites in Egypt. I analysed some of the results and developed...
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