Philip
David
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Biography
I earned my BSc in Biology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and my MSc in Ecology and Conservation at Uppsala University. My interests and research is primarily on quantifying, characterizing and understanding the underlying drivers of macroecological patterns and changes in relation to warming. My work focuses on lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and how environmental drivers, such as temperature, impact species and community thermal and trait composition. Additionally, I have experience in managing large nested datasets alongside sampling and data collection in situ in both tropical and temperate environments. Apart from my primary research, I am particularily interested in the role of temperature on modulating insect body size and the diversity of insect mimicry.
Research
I am currently pursuing a PhD at the University Of Turku about the broad scale spatiotemporal impacts of climate and land use change on the abundance redistribution and range shifts of lepidoptera. My research focuses primarily on quantifying and characterizing the large scale 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.