Simon Loader
Senior Lecturer
Life Sciences
Roehampton University
United Kingdom
Biography
I am an evolutionary biologist and I am fascinated by biodiversity and the processes that govern its distribution. My research focuses on questions such as: Why are some areas biologically richer than others? Why have certain lineages been successful and others less so? These questions necessarily require a comparative phylogenetic perspective contrasting the diversity of closely related taxa in different areas and different taxa in the same areas.My practical research has been focused on the continent of Africa where I have invested substantial effort in fieldwork to support my research and in training students from home and abroad.
Research Interest
I have particular specialist research expertise and interest in biogeography, systematics, vertebrate biology, molecular evolution, herpetology, and conservation.
Publications
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Conradie, W., Bittencourt-silva, G., Engelbrecht, H. M., Loader, S. P., Menegon, M., Nanvonamuquitxo, C., Scott, M. & Tolley, K. A. (2016) Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique’s sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 92, 2, p. 163-180
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Beck, J., Liedtke, H. C., Widler, S., Altermatt, F., Loader, S. P., Hagmann, R., Lang, S. & Fiedler, K. (2016) Patterns or mechanisms? Bergmann’s and Rapoport’s rule in moths along an elevational gradient. p. 1-12 12 p.
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Hertach, T., Puissant, S., Gogala, M., Trilar, T., Hagmann, R., Baur, H., Kunz, G., Wade, E. J., Loader, S. P., Simon, C. & Nagel, P. (2016) Complex within a Complex: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Hidden Diversity in Cicadetta brevipennis (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) and Unexpected Relationships with a Song Divergent Relative. PLOS ONE. 11, 11, p. e0165562
