About
Patrick Doncaster is in the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences.
Patrick's research includes theory and fieldwork on the movements of individuals within and between local populations, and their adaptations to crowded environments. He studies forest biodiversity and the interactions between humans and predators and their shared prey, acoustic ecology and applications of open-source conservation technology, early warning signals of tipping points in living systems under anthropogenic stress, and mechanisms for climate-change mitigation. He uses and develops robust methods of evidence-based analysis.
MATERIALS
Statistics for Biologists
- Confidence intervals and R code for plotting them
- Terminology of analysis of variance
- Examples of analysis of variance and covariance
- Orthogonal contrasts for balanced analysis of variance
- Statistical power for balanced analysis of variance
- R for analysis of variance and covariance
Population Ecology and Evolution
- Lexicon of evolutionary genetics
- Lexicon of reproductive modes
- Timeline of human evolution and cultural development
Conservation Biology
- Organisations and conventions on environmental issues
- Logical framework for valuing natural capital
- How we as individuals can contribute to stopping biodiversity loss
TOOLS
- Datasets and programs for study designs with Analysis of Variance
- R codes for study designs with Analysis of Variance
- Programs for statistical analysis
- Programs for analysing interaction from radio-tracking data
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Biography
1995-pres. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader / Professor in Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton
1994-1995 Chercher Associé, Institut d'Écologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
1990-1994 Research Assistant, Department of Zoology, Oxford
1985-1990 Poste Rouge / Ingénier de Recherche, CNRS Centre d'Études Biologiques, France
1980-1985 D.Phil. in Zoology, University of Oxford
1977-1980 BSc in Environmental Sciences (1st-class), University of East Anglia
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