Ecologist with an inordinate fondness for water. Interested in the big picture: food webs, macroecology and environmental change. Senior Lecturer, Brunel University of London https://sites.google.com/view/perkins-lab/home
Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete our survey gathering data on observations of insects for our study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to our survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Please share if you know anyone who might be interested in participating!
New study, where we experimentally tested the independent & combined impacts of microplastics & different temperature regimes on aquatic invertebrates, under the leadership of PhD Danielle Marchant, with @drdanperkins.bsky.social & @qmulrivercomms.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Physiological and behavioural responses of aquatic organisms to microplastics and experimental warmingMicroplastics are an emerging contaminant of concern because of their potential to cause harm to aquatic biota, such as reproduction, growth, and surv…www.sciencedirect.com
Dear 🌐colleagues, don't hesitate to join the 3rd wave of Global Ecology! -> DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to be added go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU
Testing the global ecology feed with some of our recent research =] 🌐 ft. @drdanperkins.bsky.social @kratina.bsky.social "Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams" Are these food webs stable despite the high dynamism of tropical ecosystems? doi.org/10.1111/1365...