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, Evolution
Algorithms and computational methods: Agents, Geographic Information Systems
Simulation software: NetLogo, Repast Simphony
Visualisation and data handling software: ArcGIS
Software Engineering Tools: Eclipse, SVN
Programming languages and libraries: Java, Python
Computational platforms: Mac OS X, Windows
Transdisciplinary tags: Complex Systems, IfLS, Quantitative Biology
Patrick's team members
Angela Watkins Postgraduate Research Student, Biological Sciences (FNES) |
Daniel Power Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS) |
Joint projects with...
James Dyke Lecturer, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS) |
Jason Noble Research Fellow, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS) |
Richard Watson Senior Lecturer, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS) |
Research Groups
Institute for Complex Systems Simulations (ICSS)
University of Southampton
Projects
A spatially-explicit agent-based model of jaguar population dynamics
With Jason Noble (Investigator), Angela Watkins
Agent-based simulations of jaguar movements through conservation corridors
With Jason Noble (Investigator), Angela Watkins
Impact of reciprocal feedbacks between evolution and ecology
With Richard Watson, James Dyke (Investigators), Daniel Power
Integrating least-cost models with agent-based simulations: example hedgehog responses to fragmented landscapes
With Jason Noble (Investigator), Angela Watkins
Simulation modelling of habitat permeability for mammalian wildlife
With Jason Noble (Investigator), Angela Watkins