Dan Perkins
@drDanPerkins
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Ecologist with an inordinate fondness for water. Interested in the big picture: food webs, macroecology, ecosystem services and environmental change.
Brunel University, London
Joined October 2013
How does predator biomass change with prey availability? Our new paper finds consistent predator-prey biomass scaling in freshwater, marine and terrestrial food webs. Read it here: Or see thread for a summary . @UoR_LifeScience @EcoNetLab @BarnesEcoDiv.
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📢 Please RT: Two @NERC_TREES_DLA PhDs on tropical ecology going with me and @KratinaLab (+@vs_saito & @gqromero):.Land use change & river food webs: .Pollution across aquatic-terrestrial realms:. Get in contact if interested!.
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RT @SE_Rivers_Trust: Biodiversity Boost at Chamber Mead!.Our August survey unveiled 7 new species unique to the wetland outflow, like water….
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RT @Ignasiarranz: 📢 Call for Abstracts!.Join our special session:. Ecosystem Functioning: From Individuals to Food Webs 🌍🌿. 📅 III @sibecol….
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A few days left to apply for this PhD opportunity!.
📢 We have PhD vacancy in our lab on understanding the response of freshwater microorganisms to environmental change:. Application deadline 31st October. Start date January 2025. Please RT. @BES_AquaEco @freshwaterbio
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RT @clivetrue: Please share - PhD with me, @BAS colleagues and @LaurenNadler @unisouthampton - Fish metabolism across latitudes - lovely….
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This project will take an energetic approach, building upon recent theoretical and empirical work:. Get in contact if interested / have Qs.
biorxiv.org
To survive and reproduce, living organisms need to maintain an efficient balance between energy intake and energy expenditure. When the environment changes, a previously efficient energy allocation...
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📢 We have PhD vacancy in our lab on understanding the response of freshwater microorganisms to environmental change:. Application deadline 31st October. Start date January 2025. Please RT. @BES_AquaEco @freshwaterbio
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RT @GabYvonDurocher: Post-doc op to join our team (@PawarLab @padpadpadpad) on NERC project investigating the eco-evolutionary mechanisms u….
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It���s been a cracking first week of the @UoR_LifeScience #conservation fieldcourse in SouthAfrica. From game counts, camera traps and telemetry to a stay with the Candover Zulu community. Learning a great deal about local human-wildlife conflict
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Our new paper, highlighting mechanisms behind the stability of these complex food webs👇. An urgent challenge is to understand how growing human pressure impacts the functioning of these threatened systems. to be continued! @vs_saito @KratinaLab.
Happy to share our new publication =]. "Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams". Are these food webs stable despite the high dynamism of tropical ecosystems? .Our results support a strong role of biodiversity and mobile predators!.
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Here’s the back story to our recent paper, which was seeded during a UK-Brazil ECR workshop back in 2019. 5 years and 4 small grants later we know a bit more about the functioning of these highly threatened systems @AgencyFAPESP @BritishEcolSoc @NewtonFund @CAPES_Oficial.
Read the #storybehindthepaper by Dr. Saito and colleagues, who found the systems of rocky streams in the Atlantic Rainforest to be highly complex and diverse, which results in high stability. @vs_saito @drDanPerkins @AgenciaFAPESP @ufscaroficial.
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RT @altermatt_lab: Join us!.#Postdoc #position in #Groundwater #Ecology, Biogeography & #Biodiversity (2 yrs). Analysing genetic, functiona….
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Two weeks left to apply for one of these great studentships (each with 4 years of funding)!.
Please RT: multiple water-themed PhD studentships starting soon @RoehamptonUni and @CranfieldUni. One led by me on #RiverRestoration starting in October. Apply before 31st May or contact me for further details.
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Great student prize talk by @LNMNash on latitudinal variation in aquatic insect emergence @SILcongress Congratulations Liam (and supervisors) well served!
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Thanks @vs_saito & @CAPES_Oficial for making this possible!.
There is still much to understand about these beautiful rainforest streams! End of a great week sampling with @drDanPerkins @eujosemello @kurt_ecology thanks to @CAPES_Oficial @AgenciaFAPESP @ufscaroficial . How will these systems cope with further environmental changes?
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Now off to @SILcongress to present our work about 'human footprints' on stream food webs across latitudes @Aqua_Sync @UoR_LifeScience.
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Now that was a week to remember: sampling Atlantic Forest streams with @vs_saito & @eujosemello in #Intervales state park. Looking forward to working up the samples and understanding better these complex food webs @CAPES_Oficial @FAPESP @UoR_LifeScience @ufscaroficial
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