Patrick Doncaster
- Position
- Reader
- Institution
- Biological Sciences (FNES)
- Webpage
- http://www.soton.ac.uk/~cpd/
- Contact
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BSc Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia;
DPhil Zoology, University of Oxford;
Ingénieur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Chizé, France;
Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford;
Reader in Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Southampton University
Interests:
Animal population dynamics and competition
Metapopulation dynamics and habitat loss
Wildlife corridors and species conservation
Density-dependent evolution, reproductive strategies and senescent ageing
Experimental design and statistical power http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/cpd/anovas/datasets
Wildlife corridors for large mammals in Belize (Darwin Initiative project in collaboration with the Panthera Foundation, the University of Belize, and the Belize Forest Department)
Food refuge interactions in periwinkles (NERC project in collaboration with the University of Plymouth and the University of Bangor)
Evolution of senescence (BBSRC DTA Studentship)
Simulation models of habitat permeability for mammalian wildlife (EPSRC DTA Studentship with the Centre for Doctoral Training in Complex Systems Simulation, in the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation at Southampton University)
Conceptual models of habitat loss (collaboration with the School of Mathematics at Southampton University)
Invasion of Red-Bellied Beautiful squirrels into Argentina (collaboration with the University of Luján, Argentina)
Research Interests
Life sciences simulation: Ecology
Algorithms and computational methods: Agents, Geographic Information Systems
Visualisation and data handling software: ArcGIS
Software Engineering Tools: Eclipse, SVN
Programming languages and libraries: Java
Computational platforms: Mac OS X, Windows
Transdisciplinary tags: Complex Systems
Patrick's team members
Angela WatkinsPostgraduate Research Student, Biological Sciences (FNES) |
Joint projects with...
Jason NobleResearch Fellow, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS) |
Research Groups
Institute for Complex Systems Simulations (ICSS)
University of Southampton
Projects
Simulation modelling of habitat permeability for mammalian wildlife
With Jason Noble (Investigator), Angela Watkins
Angela Watkins
Jason Noble