Philip
David
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My interests and research primarily lie in understanding the underlying drivers of macroecological patterns of change in insects. I mainly focus on how environmental drivers such as temperature impact species and community thermal responses, among other traits. I have experience in managing large nested datasets, as well as sampling and data collection in situ in both tropical and temperate environments. Additionally, I am currently interested in the extent of mimicry across and within different insect orders.
Research
I am currently pursuing a PhD here at the University Of Turku on the broad scale spatiotemporal impacts of climate and land use change on the abundance redistribution and range shifts of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). My research focuses primarily on quantifying and characterizing the redisribution of abundances and species. Within this I am focused on how the thermal responses of individual species shape community composition and how this may vary across space and time. Presently, I am modelling species abundance shifts across different environmental gradients trying to unravel species and community responses.