Personal Profile / Teaching Experience

Module leader for:

• Ecology
• Foundation Biology
• Biological Principles

Other modules I teach on:

• Invertebrate Biology
• British Wildlife and Conservation
• Communities and Ecosystems
• GIS Tools for Biodiversity Mapping and Conservation
• Biogeography

Research interests

• Joint scheme organiser of the UK Ladybird Survey and co-author of "Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) of Britain and Ireland" and "Ladybirds (Naturalists Handbooks 10)".
• Recording Invasive Species Counts (RISC) - a public outreach project for recording non-native animals & plants (funded by Defra).
• Worldwide spread of the harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis.
• Ecology of the harlequin ladybird and its impact on native ladybird species.
• Detection of intraguild predation of ladybirds using genetic techniques.
• Citizen science.
• I work collaboratively with researchers at various institutions in Britain (including NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Cambridge, University of Hull and Rothamsted Research), Europe and the USA.

Links

www.harlequin-survey.org
www.ladybird-survey.org
www.nonnativespecies.org/recording

Publications

Peer reviewed papers

Gardiner, M., Allee, L., Brown, P.M.J., Losey, J., Roy, H.E., and Smyth, R. (2012) Lessons from lady beetles: Accuracy of monitoring data from US and UK citizen science programs. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Roy, H.E., Adriaens, T., Isaac, N., Kenis, M., Onkelinx, T., San Martin, G., Brown, P.M.J., et al. (2012) Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds. Diversity & Distributions 18: 717-725

Thomas, A., Trotman, J., Wheatley, A., Aebi, A., Zindel, R. and Brown, P.M.J. (2012) Predation of native coccinellids by the invasive alien Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): detection in Britain by PCR based gut analysis. Insect Conservation & Diversity. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00184.x

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.

Brown, P.M.J., Adriaens, T., Bathon, H., Cuppen, J., Goldarazena, A., Hägg, T., Kenis, M., Klausnitzer, B.E.M., Kovar, I., Loomans, A.J.M., Majerus, M.E.N., Nedved, O., Pedersen, J., Rabitsch, W., Roy, H.E., Ternois, V., Zakharov, I.A. and Roy, D.B. (2008) Harmonia axyridis in Europe: spread and distribution of a non-native coccinellid. BioControl 53: 5-21.

Brown, P.M.J., Roy, H.E., Rothery, P., Roy, D.B., Ware, R.L. and Majerus, M.E.N. (2008) Harmonia axyridis in Great Britain: analysis of the spread and distribution of a non-native coccinellid. BioControl 53: 55-67.

Roy, H.E., Brown, P.M.J., Rothery, P., Ware, R.L. and Majerus, M.E.N. (2008) Interactions between the fungal pathogen B. bassiana and three species of ladybird: Harmonia axyridis, Coccinella septempunctata and Adalia bipunctata. BioControl 53: 265-276.

Books and guides

Brown, P.M.J., Roy, H.E., Comont, R.C., Poland, R.L. and Shields, C. (2012) A guide to the ladybird larvae of the British Isles. Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury.

Roy, H.E., Brown, P.M.J., Comont, R., Poland, R.L. and Sloggett, J.J. (2012) Ladybirds (Naturalists' Handbooks 10). Pelagic Publishing, Exeter.

Roy, H.E., Brown, P.M.J., Frost, R. and Poland, R.L. (2011) Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) of Britain and Ireland. NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford. ISBN 978-1-906698-20-1

Majerus, M.E.N., Roy, H.E., Brown, P.M.J., Ware, R.L. and Shields, C. (2006) A Guide to the Ladybirds of the British Isles. Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury.

Selected other articles

Brown, P.M.J., Comont, R., Poland, R.L. and Roy, H.E. (2012) Wildlife reports: Ladybirds. British Wildlife 23(3): 208-210

Brown, P.M.J., Poland, R.L. and Roy, H.E. (2011) Wildlife reports: Ladybirds. British Wildlife 22(3): 208-209.

Brown, P.M.J. (2007) In love with ladybirds. BBC Wildlife 25(7): 58-63.

Roy, H.E., Rowland, F., Brown, P.M.J., and Majerus, M.E.N. (2005) Ecology of the harlequin ladybird: a new invasive species. British Wildlife 16: 403-407.