Staff profile

Research at Durham

My research at Durham focuses primarily on how species interactions influence range dynamics and coexistence in birds. These interactions include interspecific territoriality, hybridisation and exploitative competition. I try to determine what factors influence the liklelihood of species pairs defending interspecific terriotories and hybridising. Additionally, I look at how these species interactions have influenced historical range changes and how they may influence them in the future as species ranges shift as result of climate change.

Journal Article

• Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines
  
  Nesbit, D., Cowen, M., Grether, G., & Drury, J. (2023). Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines. Ecography, 2023(6), Article e06573. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06573