Tom Webb

Biography

Royal Society University Research Fellow, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2008-present) Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2007-2008) NERC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2006-2007) UKPopNet Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York (2004-2006) NERC Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford (2003-2004) Conservation International Postdoctoral Research Associate, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2002-2003)

Research Interest

My primary research interest is in the macroecology of marine ecosystems. Particularly, in how and why marine biodiversity is unevenly distributed in space and time. This interest has led me into the realm of biodiversity informatics - using large databases of different facets of marine diversity in order to synthesise the state of knowledge of the world's oceans. My research is currently focused on three major areas: Global patterns and trends in marine biodiversity - interrogating, linking, and extracting trends from major biodiversity databases using novel statistical methods Comparative analysis of marine and terrestrial ecosystems - to what extent does ecological theory generalise across realms? Dynamics of UK marine systems - integrating data and models to understand the provision of ecosystem services from UK seas