Associate Professor
Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
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 -
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.