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Overview

Calvin Dytham is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on several interconnected subfields and topics related to ecology, environmental patterns, and the behavior of animals and insects.

The main subfields of study in which Dytham has contributed include:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science

Thematically, their work covers topics such as:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Language and cultural evolution

Dytham's recent publications illustrate this broad research scope. Some of the notable papers include:

  • "Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP," 2021, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
  • "Social and physical environment independently affect oviposition decisions in Drosophila," 2021, Behavioral Ecology
  • "Long-term fertilization and tillage regimes have limited effects on structuring bacterial and denitrifier communities in a sandy loam UK soil," 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • "Social and physical environment independently affect oviposition decisions in Drosophila melanogaster," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Estimating the distribution of reedbed in Britain demonstrates challenges of remotely sensing rare land cover types at large spatial scales," 2024, Scientific Reports

Frequent publication venues for Dytham's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecological Entomology
  • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Environmental Microbiology

Dytham has collaborated regularly with several researchers, notably:

  • Emily R. Churchill
  • Jon R. Bridle
  • Michael D. Thom
  • Jacob G. Davies
  • Robert A. Robinson

Best Publications

  • Choosing and Using Statistics: A Biologist's Guide

    Calvin Dytham

  • Costs of dispersal

    Dries Bonte;Hans Van Dyck;James M Bullock;Aurélie Coulon

  • Individual-Based Models and Approaches in Ecology

    Calvin Dytham;Donald L. DeAngelis;Louis J. Gross

  • Relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring a soil microbial community

    Alex J Dumbrell;Michaela Nelson;Thorunn Helgason;Calvin Dytham

  • Distinct seasonal assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi revealed by massively parallel pyrosequencing

    Alex J. Dumbrell;Alex J. Dumbrell;Peter D. Ashton;Naveed Aziz;Gu Feng

  • Habitat persistence, habitat availability and the evolution of dispersal

    Justin M. J. Travis;Calvin Dytham

  • Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

    Callum J. Macgregor;Chris D. Thomas;David B. Roy;Mark A. Beaumont

  • Dispersal evolution during invasions

    Justin M.J. Travis;Calvin Dytham

  • Modelling species' range shifts in a changing climate: the impacts of biotic interactions, dispersal distance and the rate of climate change.

    Robin William Brooker;Justin M. J. Travis;Ewen J. Clark;Ewen J. Clark;Calvin Dytham

  • THE EVOLUTION OF DENSITY-DEPENDENT DISPERSAL

    Justin M. J. Travis;David J. Murrell;Calvin Dytham

  • Dispersal in Plants

    Roger Cousens;Calvin Dytham;Richard Law

  • Deleterious Mutations Can Surf to High Densities on the Wave Front of an Expanding Population

    Justin M. J. Travis;Justin M. J. Travis;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Olivia J. Burton;Alex Best;Alex Best

  • Evolutionary trade-offs between reproduction and dispersal in populations at expanding range boundaries

    Clare L. Hughes;Jane K. Hill;Calvin Dytham

  • Modelling dispersal: an eco-evolutionary framework incorporating emigration, movement, settlement behaviour and the multiple costs involved

    Justin M. J. Travis;Karen Mustin;Kamil A. Bartoń;Tim G. Benton

  • Idiosyncrasy and overdominance in the structure of natural communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: is there a role for stochastic processes?

    Alex J. Dumbrell;Michaela Nelson;Thorunn Helgason;Calvin Dytham

  • Accelerating invasion rates result from the evolution of density-dependent dispersal.

    Justin M.J. Travis;Karen Mustin;Tim G. Benton;Calvin Dytham;Calvin Dytham

  • Modelling and analysing evolution of dispersal in populations at expanding range boundaries

    Clare L. Hughes;Calvin Dytham;Jane K. Hill

  • The evolution of dispersal in a metapopulation: a spatially explicit, individual-based model

    Justin M. J. Travis;Calvin Dytham

  • The evolution of dispersal distance in spatially-structured populations

    David J. Murrell;Justin M. J. Travis;Calvin Dytham

  • Evolved dispersal strategies at range margins

    Calvin Dytham

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin M. J. Travis
Justin M. J. Travis University of Aberdeen
Richard Law
Richard Law University of York
Roger D. Cousens
Roger D. Cousens University of Melbourne
Thomas Hovestadt
Thomas Hovestadt University of Würzburg
Peter J. Mayhew
Peter J. Mayhew University of York
Tim G. Benton
Tim G. Benton Chatham House
Jane K. Hill
Jane K. Hill University of York
Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York
Alex J. Dumbrell
Alex J. Dumbrell University of Essex
Alastair Fitter
Alastair Fitter University of York

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