Dr Andrew Beckerman is a Senior Lecturer and the former Director of UG Admissions. He is a member of the Teaching Committee and of the Graduate Committee. At level 1, I coordinate and teach on APS123 (Population and Community Ecology 1), based on lectures, an all day field trip and a data presentation workshop. At Level 2, I coordinate and teach on APS273 (Population and Community Ecology 2), a course combining lectures and a variety of workshops focused on technology, modelling and applications. These modules reflect my interest in population and community ecology and ideas about how evolution shapes the interactions among species and between species and their environments. I also coordinate and teach APS405 (Advanced Biological Analysis), a week-long intensive training module for 4th year MBiolSci students, MRes students and fist year PhD students. This module reflects my interests in computing and statistics and specifically in presenting results of research with high quality graphics. I have supervised a number of level 4 MBiolSci students. Most work on my water flea system. Projects range from examining life history and development, through the various features of prey defences against their predators to linking animal foraging behaviour to food web structure.

We link genetics, behaviour and life history to the distribution and abundance of organisms and the structure and dynamics of communities. We do so combining empirical and theoretical tools with a range of aquatic and terrestrial organisms, in the lab and in the field. Our research centres around two study systems: Predator - prey dynamics & food webs (Daphnia and Theory) and Parrot Conservation and Behaviour in Bonaire.