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Jeff OllertonUniversity of Northampton Senior Lecturer Ecology |
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Mutualistic interactions, in which all participants benefit from the relationship, are the main focus of my research interests. Mutualisms are hugely important ecological relationships that play key roles in determining community structure and ecosystem function. My research involves field, laboratory and theoretical investigations of the ecology, evolution and conservation of mutualisms, with a particular emphasis on plant-pollinator relationships. Within the Landscape and Biodiversity Research Group I am mainly involved with the projects Plant-pollinator interactions - ecology and evolution and Pollination and Landscape Research in the U.K., Australia, Africa, Tenerife and South America has been funded by grants totalling over £100,000 since 1993, including a NERC award of £30,000 in collaboration with Dr Lars Chittka (Queen Mary College, London) and Dr Louise Cranmer to study the bird pollinated plants of the Canary Islands, and SITA Environmental Trust funding of PhD scholarships for Sam Tarrant and Lutfor Rahman in collaboration with the SITA Centre for Sustainable Wastes Management at the University of Northampton. At the moment I am first or second supervisor for three postgraduate research students at the University of Northampton . Recent successful PhD completions are Dr Louise Cranmer , Dr Paul Clarkson , Dr Ruben Alarcon at the University of California, Riverside (now at the University of Arizona) and Dr Lizzie Cant (in collaboration with Dr Juliet Osborne at Rothamsted Research). Apart from those noted above, current and former research collaborations include: Ecology and evolution of pollination systems in the plant family Apocynaceae: Prof. Sigrid Liede (University of Bayreuth) Dr Ulrich Meve (University of Bayreuth) Dr Laure Civeyrel (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Prof. Steve Johnson (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Flowering times of plants: ecological factors and evolutionary responses: Dr Anita Diaz (Bournemouth University) Dr Andrew Lack (Oxford Brookes University) – Andrew was my PhD supervisor 1989-1993. Specialisation and generalisation in plant-pollinator interactions: Dr Ruben Alarcon (University of Arizona) Prof. Mary Price (University of California , Riverside) Thaysa Nogueira de Moura (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia) Bo Dalsgaard (Aarhus University) Prof. Nick Waser (University of California , Riverside) – Nick and I recently co-edited a book entitled "Plant-pollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization." (Acrobat 21KB) which was published by the University of Chicago Press . Read the first review from Trends in Ecology and Evolution (Acrobat 64KB). The biogeography of the anemonefish-anemone mutualism: Dr Daphne Fautin (University of Kansas) Dr Gerald Allen (Western Australian Museum) For a list of my publications, most with pdf copies, check out our group's Publications page. And when I'm not researching and teaching? I have three kids, an interest in music, collecting books and gardening, and frequent cinema trips to keep me busy. PulicationsDalsgaard, B., Timmermann, A., Martín González, A.M., Olesen, J.M., Ollerton, J. and Andersen, L.H. (2010) Heliconia-hummingbird interactions in the Lesser Antilles: a geographic mosaic? Caribbean Journal of Science (in press). Erenler, H.E., Ashton, P., Gillman, M. and Ollerton, J. (2010) Factors determining species richness of soil seed banks in lowland ancient woodlands. Biodiversity and Conservation (in press) Ricciardi, F., Boyer, M and Ollerton, J. (2010) Assemblage and interaction structure of the anemonefish-anemone mutualism across the Manado region of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Environmental Biology of Fishes (in press) Ollerton, J. and Coulthard, E. (2009) Evolution of animal pollination. Science 326: 808-809 Ollerton, J., Alarcón, R., Waser, N.M., Price, M.V., Watts, S., Cranmer, L., Hingston, A. Peter, C.I. and Rotenberry, J. (2009) A global test of the pollination syndrome hypothesis. Annals of Botany 103: 1471-1480. (pdf 588KB) [Appendix 1 (pdf 18KB)] [Appendix 2 (pdf 60KB)] [Appendix 3 (pdf 35KB)] [Appendix 4 (pdf 65KB)] Ollerton, J. (2008) A Review of: “Ecology and Evolution of Flowers” by L.D. Harder & S.C.H. Barrett. Systematic Biology 57: 516 — 517. (Acrobat 39KB) Dalsgaard, B., Martín González, A.M., Olesen, J.M. Timmermann, A., Andersen, L.H. and Ollerton, J. (2008) Pollination networks and functional specialization: a test using Lesser Antillean plant-hummingbird assemblages. Oikos (in press) (Acrobat 121KB) Ollerton, J.,Grace, J., & Smith, K. (2007). Pollinator Behaviour and Adaptive Floral Colour Change in Anthopora alluadii (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and Erysimum scoparium (Brassicaceae) on Tenerife. Entomologia Generalis 29: 253-268. (Acrobat 3.4MB)
Ollerton, J. and Dafni, A. (2005) Functional floral morphology and phenology. pp. 1-26 in: Dafni, A., P.G. Kevan & Husband, B.C. (Eds.) Practical Pollination Biology. Enviroquest, Cambridge, Ontario. Ollerton, J. (1999) The evolution of pollinator-plant relationships within the arthropods. pp. 741-758 in Melic, A., DeHaro, J.J., Mendez, M. & Ribera, I. (eds.) Evolution and Phylogeny of the Arthropoda. Entomological Society of Aragon, Zaragoza. (Acrobat 9.0MB) Ollerton, J. (1999) Fly trapping in Ceropegia flowers - evidence of ant predation of pollinators. Asklepios 77: 31-32 (Acrobat 858KB) Ollerton, J. & Diaz, A. (1999) Evidence for stabilising selection acting on flowering time in Arum maculatum (Araceae): the influence of phylogeny on adaptation. Oecologia 119: 340-348 (Acrobat 4.1MB) Ollerton, J. (1998) Sunbird surprise for syndromes. Nature 394: 726-727 (Acrobat 717KB) Ollerton, J. & Lack, A.J. (1996) Partial predispersal seed predation in Lotus corniculatus L. (Fabaceae). Seed Science Research 6: 65-69. (Acrobat 2.5MB) Ollerton, J. & Lack, A.J. (1992) Flowering phenology: an example of relaxation of natural selection? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7: 274-276. (Acrobat 2.1MB) |
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