University of Aberdeen
| Current Position | Senior Lecturer |
| Telephone | +44 (0)1224 274551 |
| lesleylancaster@abdn.ac.uk | |
| Departments | School of Biological Sciences |
| ECR | No |
| Quadrat Core Themes | Biodiversity |
| Profiles |
PUREKey Research Interests
- Macroecology including macroevolutionary dynamics
- Evolution of niche traits (resource and abiotic tolerances)
- Biogeographic effects on spatial genetic and trait variation
- Community ecology, particularly the role of life history in coexistence; effects of warming on coexistence mechanisms
- Spatial and temporal turnover in diversity
Recent Key Papers
- LT Lancaster (2016) Widespread range expansions shape latitudinal variation in insect thermal limits. Nature climate change 6 (6), 618
- LT Lancaster, G Morrison, RN Fitt (2017) Life history trade-offs, the intensity of competition, and coexistence in novel and evolving communities under climate change. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372 (1712), 20160046
- LT Lancaster, RY Dudaniec, P Chauhan, M Wellenreuther, EI Svensson, B Hansson (2016) Gene expression under thermal stress varies across a geographical range expansion front. Molecular ecology 25 (5), 1141-1156
Summary Title of Current Studentships
- 2018 – 2022 NERC industrial CASE studentship, “Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for monitoring thermal microhabitats in natural and regulated rivers.”
- 2018 – 2022 Self-funded PhD-ship, “The role of epigenetic regulation to structure freshwater biodiversity under climate change.”
- 2017 – 2021 NERC industrial CASE studentship, “Population connectivity of native and invasive species in the Fens: What are appropriate habitats for conservation?”
- 2017 – 2021 BBSRC Eastbio studentship, “The role of sex, climate change, and land use on the spread of aphid pesticide-resistance in the UK: a PhD project using transcriptomic and GIS-based approaches.”
- 2017 – 2020 NERC industrial CASE studentship, “Native biodiversity in human-impacted habitats: Applying NGS technology to arthropod assemblages in semi-natural and plantation oak woodlands.”
- 2016 – 2019 BBSRC Eastbio studentship, “Experimental niche evolution in seed beetles: Simulating responses to climate change in a currently evolving global crop pest.”
- QUADRAT DTP student, Michael O’Connor: How do biotic interactions shape the response of species to climate change across temperate and tropical biomes? A global study on damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera)
