Ken Thompson

Associate Professor
Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom

Academician Plant Sciences
Biography

BSc (1974) University of Leicester; PhD (1977) University of Sheffield Temporary Lecturer in Botany, University of Durham (1977-79) Lecturer II and Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Plymouth Polytechnic (now University of Plymouth) (1979-90) Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, UCPE (NERC), University of Sheffield (1990-1998) Director, Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory, University of Sheffield (1998-2002) Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, 2002 -

Research Intrest

The ecology of seeds, plant traits and functional types, biodiversity and ecosystem function, biological invasions, urban ecology, commonness and rarity, changing climate and land use, the ecology of gardens.