Behaviour and Ecology
@ School of Life Sciences,
University of Nottingham
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Biodiversity in Egypt
Francis Gilbert, Tim Newbold and Tom Reader
Francis Gilbert has worked in the high
mountains of Sinai for more than 20 years with his main collaborator, Samy Zalat
of Suez Canal University, and involving staff members of the School
(including Jerzy Behnke and Chris
Barnard) and other universities. The arid mountain wadis (valleys) consitute a
set of semi-isolated biotic communities, and each community has surprisingly
different components, despite their close physical proximity. This is true for
all the communities we have studied (insects on plants, parasites in mammals,
ants, etc). We are interested in
studying the possibility of different pathways of micro-coevolution among
interacting partners within these communities: there is morphological and
genetic evidence that this may be occurring.
A recent focus for our research in this area has been modelling work undertaken by Tim Newbold, whose PhD was aimed at understanding which areas in Egypt are likely to be of most value from a conservation point of view. Find out more about this work here.
A recent focus for our research in this area has been modelling work undertaken by Tim Newbold, whose PhD was aimed at understanding which areas in Egypt are likely to be of most value from a conservation point of view. Find out more about this work here.