Bred Beckett

I call myself a community ecologist by heart, that's because I tend to work on 'why things, do things, to other things'. It's clear to me that the interactions between complex systems need further attention and so I aim to add more understanding as to them. They're difficult and often unrewarding but I'm passionate that no new information isn't always a bad thing. Being able to take options off the table and then present the information in a framework that the greater public can understand could be the gateway to furter research.

I have worked on spiders traditionally, with them being a fantastic predator and prey species that can tie together explanations of food webs and habitat structure benefits. Forestry is a really understudied field in which trophic interactions are often thought of as much less diverse than other habitat types and so a key area of prior work. However, I think it's more to do with the difficulties in study capacity, they're never easy to work on without forestry impacting sites (Mostly in the uk) but I'm keen to prove the benefits of working within this habitat type. 

I'm now focusing on plant-herbivore interactions and how chemicals/nutrients are passed between communities in an attempt to bring an entomologists view on this relationship.