Philip Stephens
Associate Professor
Department of Biosciences
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Phil Stephens graduated in Zoology from Bristol, took an MSc. in Conservation Biology at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology and gained his PhD in population ecology from the University of East Anglia (2002). His principal interests are in how evolved traits shape the fates of individuals and how those fates sum to determine the dynamics of populations. These interests inform research on evolution, behaviour and conservation more broadly.
Research Interest
Behavioural modelling, Dispersal, group-living and territoriality, Conservation of endangered species, Mammalian population dynamics, Energetics, behaviour and demography, Agriculture and the environment, Mathematical ecology.
Publications
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Mason, Tom H.E., Brivio, Francesca, Stephens, Philip A., Apollonio, Marco & Grignolio, Stefano (2017). The behavioral trade-off between thermoregulation and foraging in a heat-sensitive species. Behavioral Ecology 28(3): 908-918.
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Cadotte, M.W., Barlow, J., Nunez, M.A., Pettorelli, N. & Stephens, P.A. (2017). Solving environmental problems in the Anthropocene: the need to bring novel theoretical advances into the applied ecology fold. Journal of Applied Ecology 54(1): 1-6.
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Voskamp, A., Baker, D.J., Stephens, P.A., Valdes, P.J. & Willis, S.G. (2017). Global patterns in the divergence between phylogenetic diversity and species richness in terrestrial birds. Journal of Biogeography 44(4): 709-721.
