Behaviour and Ecology
@ Schools of Biology and Geography,
University of Nottingham
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Talib Chitheer
Supervisor: Andrew MacColl
Research Interests
I am studying the eco-evolutionary interactions between fish and plankton in lochs on
the Scottish island of North Uist.
On North Uist there is an enormous amount of variation in the ecological conditions in lochs,
and in the phenotypes and abundances of fish such as three-spined stickleback and brown trout.
Recent ecological developments suggest ecological conditions will affect the way in which
phenotypes evolve, and that this evolutionary change will in turn have feedback effects on the ecology of the community. I am concentrating especially
on the role of zooplankton in North Uist lochs. These have an important intermediary position in the simple food chains of these lochs, and are likely
to mediate both trophic cascades and eco-evolutionary dynamics.