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The Durrell Trust for Conservation Biology
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Research Interests I am interested in a wide variety of questions, both theoretical and empirical, relating to biodiversity and conservation biology. Most of my research focuses on questions relating to species detectability and extinction, and orchid ecology; in particular the response of orchids to climate change, epiphyte community ecology and modelling epiphyte seed dispersal. In pursuit of these goals, I have travelled widely, focusing on study systems in the western Indian Ocean islands and Africa. Although I am primarily an "orchid" person, I work on a diverse range of taxa including, ants, the dodo, mammoths and the North Atlantic Right Whale. Further details can be found on my website.
Selected Publications Robbirt, K.M., Davy, A.J., Hutchings, M.J., Roberts, D.L. (2011) Validation of biological collections as a source of phenological data for use in climate change studies: a case study with the orchid Ophrys sphegodes. Journal of Ecology (to be published online 20/9/10). Joppa, L.N., Roberts, D.L., Pimm, S.L. (2010) How many species of flowering plants are there? Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (published online 7/7/10). Roberts, D.L., Elphick, C.S., Reed, J.M. (2010) Identifying anomalous reports of putatively extinct species and why it matters. Conservation Biology, 24: 189-196. Roberts, D.L., Marshall, C.R. (2009) Are higher taxa described earlier or later than expected by chance? Systematics and Biodiversity, 7: 243-247. Roberts, D.L., Dixon, K.W. (2008) Orchids. Current Biology, 18: R325-R329. Roberts, D.L., Solow, A.R. (2008) The effect of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species on scientific collections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 275: 987-989. Roberts, D.L., Solow, A.R. (2003) When did the Dodo become extinct? Nature, 426: 245. |
