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Current research projects

Project leader	Project title
Fenton	Are all hosts created equal? Transmission dynamics in a natural multi-host parasite community
Hansen	Ecology and conservation of plant-animal interactions in the Western Indian Ocean
Petchey	Computational modelling of the collapse of ecological communities
	Predicting community response to environmental change
	Effects of parasite-induced mortality on the dynamics of predator-prey interactions
	Extinctions in ecological communitites and the assessment of extinction risk
Plebani	Temperature, habitat size and the strength of biotic interactions
Woodward	Using individual metabolism and body size to predict climate warming impacts on aquatic food webs (Woodward et al.)

Completed research projects

Project leader	Project title
Griffiths	Assembling an ecological networks of parasites, immune components and resources with interaction sizes within coinfected mice
Pedersen	Assessing the stability of parasite communities through perturbation experiments
Petchey	Epigenetic mechanisms of organismal adaptation to environmental change
	Understanding indirect effects of vaccination programmes: a community ecology approach.