Shortly after I first became interested in the web-building behaviour of cave spiders, I began a collaboration with two early career Italian scientists, Dr Enrique Lunghi and Dr Stefano Mammola focussing not only on spiders, but also on the wider aspect of conducting...
I’m very pleased to have been appointed editorial board member on the open access journal Insect (IF = 2.2) in their Section Board for ‘Other Arthropods and General Topics’. Insects is general journal covering all topics relating to entomology...
In recent years we have seen a growing understanding and appreciation of the role that town and cities can play in preserving biodiversity if the green areas are managed appropriately. Recent studies show that this is true even in the densely population megacities in...
I’m very pleased to have been involved with an invertebrate study with practical conservation value, as these are still vanishingly rare in a (conservation) world dominated by cuddly vertebrate. A few years back I had the pleasure to supervise a field project on the...
It was the account in the literature of the intriguing modifications of the standard orb web in the tetragnathid cave orb spider Meta menardi that first got me interested in subterranean biology back in 2016. I was therefore very pleased when I managed to attract an...
I’ve been involved in a side project of the very promising PhD student Dylan Gomes from Boise State University in Idaho, who contacted me a few years back asking for help on how to extend his work on the ecological affect of river noise on vertebrates to orb spiders....
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