by Thomas | Apr 12, 2021
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...
by Thomas | Feb 25, 2021
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...
by Thomas | Jan 8, 2021
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...
by Thomas | Dec 9, 2020
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....
by Thomas | Oct 30, 2020
An undergraduate project on edge effects in prey capture of Metellina mengei (family Tetragnathiae) in Wytham Woods near Oxford by Madeline Richards, has now been published in Animal Biology. The study builds on a previous study of web geometry, and finds that neither...
by Thomas | Oct 29, 2020
As part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr Stefano Mammola and Dr Enrico Lunghi (both upcoming stars in the area of subterranean ecology), I have been involved in a neat little study on how the broadly distributed European cave orb spiders segregate not only along...
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