All of our Department's programmes are underpinned by staff research, which is discussed in more detail under their individual entries.

Research within Life Sciences:

• Animal and Environmental Research Group (AERG)
• The Biomedical Research Group (BRG)
• Animal Behaviour Research Unit of Mikumi National Park, Tanzania.

Our department has a number of full-time PhD students and also supports part-time post-graduate, usually PhD, students who are employed in the many life-science based organisations in the Cambridge area.

Consultancy within Life Sciences:

• Human Energetics and Performance Centre

Research

Examples of recent research publications from the Department of Life Sciences

(for further details, and additional lists of publications, please see individual staff profiles)

Aebi, A., Brown, P.M.J., De Clercq, P., Hautier, L., Howe, A., Ingels, B., Ravn, H.P., Sloggett, J.J., Zindel, R. and Thomas, A. 2011. Detecting arthropod intraguild predation in the field. BioControl 56(4): 429-440.

Brown, P.M.J., Thomas, C., Lombaert, E., Jeffries, D.L., Estoup, A. and Lawson Handley, L.J. 2011. The global spread of Harmonia axyridis: distribution, dispersal and routes of invasion. BioControl 56(4): 623-642.

Brown, P.M.J., Frost, R., Doberski, J., Sparks, T., Harrington, R. and Roy, H.E. 2011. Decline in native ladybirds in response to the arrival of Harmonia axyridis: early evidence from England. Ecological Entomology 36: 231-240.

Gordon D, Hopkins, S., King, C., Keiller, D., and Barnes, R. 2011. The plateau at VO2max is dependent on the anaerobic capacity. International Journal of Sports Medicine 32(1): 1-6

Anderson, A., McCormack, S., Helden, A., Sheridan, H., Kinsella, A., & Purvis, G. 2011 The potential of parasitoid Hymenoptera as bioindicators of arthropod diversity in agricultural grasslands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 382-390.

Richards, N.L., Hall, S., Scott, K.S. & Harrison, N.M. 2011. Short communication: First instance of detection of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug flunixin in sheep's wool. Environmental Pollution 159 (5):1446-1450.

Richards, N.L., Cooke, G., Simpson, V. Hall, S., Harrison, N.M. & Scott, K.S. 2011. Short communication: Qualitative detection of the NSAIDs diclofenac and ibuprofen in the hair of Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) occupying UK waterways with GC-MS. European Journal of Wildlife Research.

Harrison, N M and Whitehouse, J M. 2011. Mixed-species flocks: an example of niche construction? Animal Behaviour 81: 675-682. 5 January 2011.

Roberts T.E.,, Davenport T.R.B., Hildebrandt K.B.P., Jones T, Sargis E.J., Stanley W.T., & Olson L.E. 2010. Local introgression, not hybrid origin, explains mitochondrial DNA variation in Rungwecebus kipunji. Biology Letters 6, 233-237.

Phillips, C., Izmirli, S., Aldavood, J., Alonso, M., Choe, B., Hanlon, A., Handziska, A., Illman, G., Keeling, L., Kennedy, M.,Lee, G., Lund, V., Mejdell, C., Pelagic, V., and Rehn, T. 2011. An International Comparison of Female and Male Students Attitudes to the Use of Animals. Animals, 1(1), 7-26; available from: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/1/7/

Marlin, D., Kettlewell, P., Parkin, T., Kennedy, M., Broom, D. and Wood, J. 2011. Welfare and health of horses transported for slaughter within the European Union Part 1: Methodology and descriptive data. Equine Veterinary Journal 43(1): 78-87

Hobbs, S. J., Orlande, O., Edmundson, C. J., Northrop, A. J. and Martin, J. H. 2010. Development of a method to identify foot strike on an arena surface: application to jump landing. Comparative Exercise Physiology 7:19-25

Phillips, R.A., Ridley, C., Reid, K., Pugh, P.J.A., Tuck, G.N. & Harrison, N. 2010. Ingestion of fishing gear and entanglement of seabirds: monitoring and implications for management. Biological Conservation 143: 501-512.

Ridley, C., Harrison, N.M. & Pugh, P.J.A. 2010. Identifying the origins of fishing gear ingested by seabirds foraging over the Southern Ocean: a novel multivariate approach. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20: 621-631.

Ormond, E.L., Thomas, A.P.M., Pugh, P.J.A., Pell, J.K. & Roy, H.E. 2010. A fungal pathogen in time and space: the population dynamics of Beauveria bassiana in a conifer forest. Microbial Ecology 74: 146-154.