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Overview

Jason W. Chapman is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing heavily on insect ecology and behavior.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics

Chapman has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Insects
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Pest Management Science

Their subfields of study emphasize topics within ecology and insect science, including:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Genetics

Notable recent papers by Jason W. Chapman include:

  • "Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked" (2020) published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Diversity, dynamics, direction, and magnitude of high-altitude migrating insects in the Sahel" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Migration in butterflies: a global overview" (2021) published in Biological Reviews
  • "Environmental drivers of annual population fluctuations in a trans-Saharan insect migrant" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Individual tracking reveals long-distance flight-path control in a nocturnally migrating moth" (2022) published in Science

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Chapman include:

  • Don R. Reynolds
  • Gao Hu
  • Boya Gao
  • Will L. S. Hawkes
  • Karl R. Wotton

Best Publications

  • Long-range seasonal migration in insects: mechanisms, evolutionary drivers and ecological consequences

    Jason W. Chapman;Jason W. Chapman;Don R. Reynolds;Don R. Reynolds;Kenneth Wilson

  • Mass seasonal bioflows of high-flying insect migrants

    Gao Hu;Gao Hu;Gao Hu;Ka S. Lim;Nir Horvitz;Suzanne J. Clark

  • Flight Orientation Behaviors Promote Optimal Migration Trajectories in High-Flying Insects

    Jason W. Chapman;Rebecca L. Nesbit;Rebecca L. Nesbit;Laura E. Burgin;Laura E. Burgin;Don R. Reynolds;Don R. Reynolds

  • Recent insights from radar studies of insect flight.

    Jason W. Chapman;V. Alistair Drake;Don R. Reynolds

  • Animal Orientation Strategies for Movement in Flows

    Jason W. Chapman;Raymond H.G. Klaassen;V. Alistair Drake;V. Alistair Drake;Sabrina Fossette

  • Large carabid beetle declines in a United Kingdom monitoring network increases evidence for a widespread loss in insect biodiversity

    David R. Brooks;John E. Bater;Suzanne J. Clark;Don T. Monteith

  • High-altitude migration of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella to the U.K.: a study using radar, aerial netting, and ground trapping.

    Jason W. Chapman;Don R. Reynolds;Alan D. Smith;Joe R. Riley

  • Windborne long-distance migration of malaria mosquitoes in the Sahel

    Diana L. Huestis;Adama Dao;Moussa Diallo;Zana L. Sanogo

  • Prediction of migratory routes of the invasive fall armyworm in eastern China using a trajectory analytical approach

    Xi-Jie Li;Ming-Fei Wu;Jian Ma;Bo-Ya Gao;Bo-Ya Gao

  • Wind Selection and Drift Compensation Optimize Migratory Pathways in a High-Flying Moth

    Jason W. Chapman;Don R. Reynolds;Henrik Mouritsen;Jane K. Hill

  • Multi‐generational long‐distance migration of insects: studying the painted lady butterfly in the Western Palaearctic

    Constantí Stefanescu;Ferran Páramo;Susanne Åkesson;Marta Alarcón

  • Mass Seasonal Migrations of Hoverflies Provide Extensive Pollination and Crop Protection Services.

    Karl R. Wotton;Boya Gao;Boya Gao;Myles H.M. Menz;Roger K.A. Morris

  • Vertical-Looking Radar: A New Tool for Monitoring High-Altitude Insect Migration

    Jason W. Chapman;Don R. Reynolds;Alan D. Smith

  • Seasonal migration to high latitudes results in major reproductive benefits in an insect

    Jason W. Chapman;Jason W. Chapman;James R. Bell;Laura E. Burgin;Donald R. Reynolds;Donald R. Reynolds

  • Does cannibalism in Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) reduce the risk of predation?

    Jason W Chapman;Trevor Williams;Ana-Mabel Martinez;Juan Cisneros

  • Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked

    Dara A Satterfield;T Scott Sillett;Jason W Chapman;Jason W Chapman;Sonia Altizer

  • Selection of a nucleopolyhedrovirus for control of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): structural, genetic, and biological comparison of four isolates from the Americas.

    Ana Escribano;Trevor Williams;David Goulson;Ronald D. Cave

  • Convergent patterns of long-distance nocturnal migration in noctuid moths and passerine birds

    Thomas Alerstam;Jason W. Chapman;Johan Bäckman;Alan D. Smith

  • An aerial netting study of insects migrating at high altitude over England.

    J.W. Chapman;D.R. Reynolds;A.D. Smith;E.T. Smith

  • Fitness consequences of cannibalism in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda

    Jason W Chapman;Trevor Williams;Ana Escribano;Primitivo Caballero

  • Age-related cannibalism and horizontal transmission of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus in larval Spodoptera frugiperda

    Jason W Chapman;Trevor Williams;Ana Escribano;Primitivo Caballero

Frequent Co-Authors

Don R. Reynolds
Don R. Reynolds University of Greenwich
Alan D. Smith
Alan D. Smith Rothamsted Research
Ian P. Woiwod
Ian P. Woiwod Rothamsted Research
Dave Goulson
Dave Goulson University of Sussex
Jane K. Hill
Jane K. Hill University of York
Trevor Williams
Trevor Williams Texas A&M University
Felix Liechti
Felix Liechti Swiss Ornithological Institute
Judy Shamoun-Baranes
Judy Shamoun-Baranes University of Amsterdam
Kenneth Wilson
Kenneth Wilson Lancaster University
Jeffrey F. Kelly
Jeffrey F. Kelly University of Oklahoma

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