Mark Ledger
Senior Lecturer
ecology
university of brimingham
United Kingdom
Biography
He is an ecologist researching environmental change in freshwaters.
Research Interest
Climate change is expected to alter the quantity of water entering rivers and streams, with potentially devastating impacts on the structure and functioning of these ecosystems. This project (led by Mark Ledger, in collaboration with Mark Trimmer at QM and Guy Woodward at ICL) uses novel mesocosm experiments to understand the ecological effects of hydrologic droughts in streams, with a view to predicting future change.
Publications
-
Ledger, M.E. & Milner, A.M. (2015) Extreme events in running waters. Freshwater Biology, 60, 2455-2460.
-
Woodward, G., Bonada, N., Brown, L.E., Death, R.G., Durance, I., Hladyz, S., Ledger, M.E., Milner, A.M., Ormerod, S.J., Thompson, R.M. (2016) Extreme climatic events and their consequences for biodiversity, food webs and ecosystem properties in running waters. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0274.
-
Lu, X., Gray, C., Brown, L.E., Ledger, M.E., Milner, A.M., Mondragon, R., Woodward, G., Ma, A. (2016) Drought rewires the cores of food webs. Nature Climate Change, 6, 875–878.
