Journal Article
Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees
Tainsh, F., Woodmansey, S. R., Austin, A. J., Bagnall, T. E., & Gilbert, J. D. (in press). Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees. Apidologie, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00801-1
Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism
Feeney, W. E., Brooker, R. M., Johnston, L. N., Gilbert, J. D., Besson, M., Lecchini, D., …Manica, A. (2019). Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism. Ecology letters, 22(2), 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13184
Research interests
James is interested in the evolution of parental care and social behaviour – especially how these crucial animal interactions shape, and are shaped by, animals' nutritional environments – and the unforeseen pressures exerted upon parental and social interactions by anthropogenic change.
Lead investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
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Project
Resilience of pollinators in a changing world: impact of developmental environment on metabolism and energetic budgets in social and solitary bees
Funder
BBSRC Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Counc
Grant
£431,448.00
Started
1 January 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
Do Bees regulate the composition of food they give their offspring, and does it matter?
Funder
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Grant
£3,262.00
Started
1 February 2015
Status
Complete
Co-investigator
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Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
Evaluating biodiversity impacts of beaver reintroductions on invertebrate and vertebrate communities using environmental DNA
Funder
Natural England
Grant
£93,837.00
Started
1 January 2022
Status
Ongoing
Project
Investigating temporal impacts of reintroduced beavers at Cropton Forest on biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding.
Funder
Forestry England
Grant
£4,000.00
Started
1 April 2022
Status
Ongoing
Project
The missing link: do impacts of beavers traverse aquatic-terrestrial boundaries?
Funder
Buglife
Grant
£5,000.00
Started
26 September 2021
Status
Complete
Postgraduate supervision
I am happy to supervise PhDs on a range of topics related to invertebrate behaviour and ecology. Currently I am supervising projects on nutritional ecology of solitary bees, and the macroevolution of insect parental care and life history, but am always open to creative, interesting suggestions. I do not currently have a funded position to offer, though, so we would have to work together to obtain funding.