The Team
Dr Lucy Alford is a lecturer in Invertebrate Physiology at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the interplay between landscape intensification and microclimate, how this impacts beneficial insects, and how this can inform landscape management to encourage and conserve beneficial insects. She endeavours to understand how we may utilise ‘Functional AgroBiodiversity’ to reinstate beneficial biodiversity back into degraded or heavily managed systems and, in doing so, restore beneficial insects and the key ecosystem services they provide.
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Daisy Scott is an MRes student at the University of Bristol supervised by Dr Lucy Alford and Dr Martin How and in collaboration with Dr Harry Siviter. Her research is investigating exploitative and interference competition between winter-active parasitoid wasps and pollinators and the implications for ecosystem service provision.
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- Sophie Weston (2024) Intern.
- Jack Sunderland (2024) Intern.
Previous members:
- Sophie WESTON (2024) Integrated Masters. University of Bristol. Thesis: The intergenerational impacts of maternal access to floral resources on offspring life-history traits in Aphidus evri under winter conditions.
- Haaniyah SHAD (2023) NERC GW4+ DTP Summer Studentship.
- Lucy SERJENT (2023) Integrated Masters. University of Bristol. Thesis: Investigating the effect of nectar composition on the cold tolerance and longevity of Aphidius ervi to inform the design of winter flower strips.
- Ford GLINSMAN (2023) Integrated Masters. University of Bristol. Thesis: Warming winters and wasps: The effects of intraguild competition and floral resource availability on parasitism rates.
- Dimitra VALSAMI (2022) Integrated Masters. University of Bristol. Thesis: To bee or not to bee: the effects of sugar provision and bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) density on aphid parasitism rates of the wasp Aphididus ervi under winter conditions.
- Talay NAMINTRAPORN (2022) Integrated Masters. University of Bristol. Thesis: Investigating interactions between pollinators and biological control insects in winter agricultural environments.
- Alexandra LABBETOUL (2021) Masters 2. University of Rennes 1. Thesis: Can floral resources aid parasitoid cold stress tolerance and enhance natural biological control in winter?
- Ludovic LAGNEAU (2020) Masters 2. University of Rennes 1. Thesis: Influence of the presence of Bombus terrestris on the aphid parasitoid Aphidius ervi.
- Mathieu BUSY (2020) Masters 1. University of Rennes 1. Thesis: Link between nutrition and thermal stress tolerance of temperature insects in a climate change perspective.
- Romane NORMAND (2020) Master 1. University of Rennes 1. Thesis: Host location and competition in generalist and specialist hyperparasitoids: implications for biological control.
- Tiphanie FONTAINE-GUENEL (2020) Masters 2. University of Rennes 1. Thesis: Potential interactions and competition between parasitoids, hyperparasitoids and pollinators on winter flowering crops and cereal fields.
Ongoing collaborations:
Dr Hervé Colinet (University of Rennes, France) - Hervé's research focuses on the adaptive responses of ectotherms to environmental and anthropogenic constraints.
Professor Julian Dow (University of Glasgow, UK) - Julian's research focuses on the molecular physiology of ion transport and cell signalling pathways using Drosophila as a model organisms.
Dr Hossein Kishani Farahani (Agronutrition, France) - Hossein's research focuses on learning ability and memory retention in parasitoid wasps and the role of nutrition.
Dr Martin How (University of Bristol, UK) - Martin's research focuses predominately on the visual ecology of marine and intertidal organisms. Specifically, he studies the detection of polarized light in mantis shrimps and fiddler crabs, colour vision in crustaceans and skin camouflage patterns in a variety of species, including nudibranchs, cuttlefish and zebra.
Dr David Renault (University of Rennes, France) - David's research focuses on the behavioral, metabolic and physiological responses of arthropods that enable survival in fluctuating environmental conditions and how these parameters determine the geographical range of species.
Dr Sacha Roudine (University of Rennes, France) - Sacha's research focuses on the use of plant diversification schemes to control aphid borne viral diseases of crops.
Dr Harry Siviter (University of Bristol, UK) - Harry's research interests are focused on animal behaviour and cognition with an ever-increasing passion for conservation and ecology.
Professor Joan van Baaren (University of Rennes, France) - Joan's research focuses on the influence of climate change and environmental management on the behaviour and life history traits of parasitoid insect species and natural enemies of crop pests.
Dr Hervé Colinet (University of Rennes, France) - Hervé's research focuses on the adaptive responses of ectotherms to environmental and anthropogenic constraints.
Professor Julian Dow (University of Glasgow, UK) - Julian's research focuses on the molecular physiology of ion transport and cell signalling pathways using Drosophila as a model organisms.
Dr Hossein Kishani Farahani (Agronutrition, France) - Hossein's research focuses on learning ability and memory retention in parasitoid wasps and the role of nutrition.
Dr Martin How (University of Bristol, UK) - Martin's research focuses predominately on the visual ecology of marine and intertidal organisms. Specifically, he studies the detection of polarized light in mantis shrimps and fiddler crabs, colour vision in crustaceans and skin camouflage patterns in a variety of species, including nudibranchs, cuttlefish and zebra.
Dr David Renault (University of Rennes, France) - David's research focuses on the behavioral, metabolic and physiological responses of arthropods that enable survival in fluctuating environmental conditions and how these parameters determine the geographical range of species.
Dr Sacha Roudine (University of Rennes, France) - Sacha's research focuses on the use of plant diversification schemes to control aphid borne viral diseases of crops.
Dr Harry Siviter (University of Bristol, UK) - Harry's research interests are focused on animal behaviour and cognition with an ever-increasing passion for conservation and ecology.
Professor Joan van Baaren (University of Rennes, France) - Joan's research focuses on the influence of climate change and environmental management on the behaviour and life history traits of parasitoid insect species and natural enemies of crop pests.