Staff Profile:Dr Mark Fellowes

Name:

Dr Mark Fellowes

Job Title:

Head of School, 157, Harborne building

Responsibilities:

Senior Lecturer in Ecology

Areas of Interest:

My research interests focus on interactions between species, either in trying to understand the consequences of heritable variation in defence for wider interactions at the community level, or more recently in beginning to develop insights into the interaction between people and biodiversity in urban and suburban settings. The former work primarily utilises the pea aphid, a serious pest of legumes, as a model system, investigating how within species variation influences interactions with predators and parasitoids. The latter emphasises wild birds and mammals. My research interests are reflected in my teaching. I run modules on ecology and ornithology, and I also run the tropical biology field course, an annual trip to Java and Borneo. In the picture I am holding a young false gharial, one of only 2000 left on Earth.

I am happy to discuss opportunities for PhD studentships in these or related areas.

My research questions:

1. Insect ecology: How is adaptive genetic variation maintained in natural populations? How does natural selection influence the ecological patterns we see in the wild? Does this influence the outcome of biological control?
2. Urban biodiversity: how do human interventions influence the abundance and diversity of species in urban and suburban environments? Influence of supplementary feeding on birds and mammals.

Research groups / Centres:

Ecology research group

Publications:

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Number of items: 17.

2012

• Orros, M. E. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2012) Supplementary feeding of wild birds indirectly affects the local abundance of arthropod prey. Basic and Applied Ecology. ISSN 1439-1791 (In Press)

2009

• Hazell, S.P. and Fellowes, M.D.E. (2009) Intra-specific variation affects the structure of the natural enemy assemblage attacking pea aphid colonies. Ecological Entomology, 34 (1). pp. 34-42. ISSN 0307-6946 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.01051.x

2008

• Printes, L. B., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Callaghan, A. (2008) Clonal variation in acetylcholinesterase biomarkers and life history traits following OP exposure in Daphnia magna. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 71 (2). pp. 519-526. ISSN 0147-6513 doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2007.12.001
• Hazell, S.P., Vel, T. and Fellowes, M.D.E. (2008) The role of exotic plants in the invasion of Seychelles by the polyphagous insect Aleurodicus disperses: a phylogenetically controlled analysis. Biological Invasions, 10 (2). pp. 169-175. ISSN 1387-3547 doi: 10.1007/s10530-007-9120-2

2007

• Libbrecht, R., Gwynn, D. M. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2007) Aphidius ervi preferentially attacks the green morph of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Journal of Insect Behavior, 20 (1). pp. 25-32. ISSN 0892-7553 doi: 10.1007/s10905-006-9055-y

2006

• Hazell, S. P., McClintock, I. A. D. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2006) Intraspecific heritable variation in life-history traits can alter the outcome of interspecific competition among insect herbivores. Basic and Applied Ecology, 7 (3). pp. 215-223. ISSN 1439-1791 doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2005.06.003

2005

• Godfray, H.C.J., Fellowes, M.D.E. and Kraaijeveld, A.R. (2005) Coevolution of resistance and virulence in host-parasitoid interactions. Challenges within Entomology: A Celebration of the Past 100 Years and a Look to the Next Century. A&M University Press: Texas., Texas. ISBN 1585444324
• Godfray, H. C. J., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Kraaijeveld, A. R. (2005) Coevolution of resistance and virulence in host-parasitoid interactions. In: Heinz, K. M., Frisbie, R. E. and Bográn, C. E. (eds.) Entomology at the Land Grant University: perspectives from the Texas A & M University department centenary. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, pp. 142-164. ISBN 9781585444328
• Hazell, S. P., Gwynn, D. M., Ceccarelli, S. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2005) Competition and dispersal in the pea aphid: clonal variation and correlations across traits. Ecological Entomology, 30 (3). pp. 293-298. ISSN 0307-6946
• Fellowes, M.D.E., van Alphen, J.J.M. and Jervis, M. (2005) Foraging behaviour. In: Jervis, M. (ed.) Insects as Natural Enemies: A Practical Perspective. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 1-71. ISBN 9781402017346
• Fellowes, M.D.E., Holloway, G.J. and Rolff, J., eds. (2005) Insect evolutionary ecology. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, pp448. ISBN 9780851998121
• Muller, C. B., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Godfray, H. C. J. (2005) Relative importance of fertiliser addition to plants and exclusion of predators for aphid growth in the field. Oecologia, 143 (3). pp. 419-427. ISSN 0029-8549 doi: 10.1007/s00442-004-1795-9
• Gwynn, D. M., Callaghan, A., Gorham, J., Walters, K. F. A. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2005) Resistance is costly: trade-offs between immunity, fecundity and survival in the pea aphid. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 272 (1574). pp. 1803-1808. ISSN 0962-8452 doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3089
• Gwynn, D. M., Callaghan, A., Gorham, J., Walters, K. F. A. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2005) Resistance is costly: trade-offs between immunity, fecundity and survival in the pea aphid. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B - Biological Sciences, 272 (1574). pp. 1803-1808. ISSN 1471-2954 doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3089
• Hazell, S. P., Wenlock, C., Bachel, S. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2005) The costs and consequences of parasitoid attack for the predatory hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 7 (5). pp. 669-679. ISSN 1522-0613

2004

• Fellowes, M.D.E. and Callaghan, A. (2004) Garden entomology. In: The Royal Entomological Society's Introduction to Insect Science. Royal Entomological Society (London), p. 24.

2003

• Stacey, D. A., Thomas, M. B., Blanford, S., Pell, J. K., Pugh, C. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2003) Genotype and temperature influence pea aphid resistance to a fungal entomopathogen. Physiological Entomology, 28 (2). pp. 75-81. ISSN 0307-6962 doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.2003.00309.x

This list was generated on Fri May 25 00:32:54 2012 BST.

 

Pre 2003

Callaghan, A. & Fellowes, M.D.E. 2003 Garden Entomology. Pp. 12. RES/Daily Telegraph. 

Morris, R.M. & Fellowes, M.D.E. 2002 Learning and natal host influence host choice behaviour in a pupal parasitoid. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51, 386-393. 

Stacey, D.A. & Fellowes, M.D.E. 2002 Influence of temperature on pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) resistance to natural enemy attack. Bulletin of Entomological Research 92, 351-357. 

Stacey, D.A. & Fellowes, M.D.E. 2002 Influence of elevated CO2 on interspecific interactions at higher trophic levels. Global Change Biology 8, 668-678. 

Stacey, D.A. & Fellowes, M.D.E. 2002 Does the relationship between temperature and development rate vary across thrips populations? European Journal of Entomology 99, 399-404. 

Collins, C.M., Fellowes, M.D.E., Sage, R.B., & Leather, S.R. 2001 Host selection and performance of the giant willow aphid, Tuberolachnus salignus (Gmelin) - Implications for pest management. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 3, 183-189.

Fellowes, M.D.E. & Hutcheson, K.A. 2001 Flies in the face of adversity. Biologist 48, 75-78.

Fellowes, M.D.E. & Godfray, H.C.J. 2000 The evolutionary ecology of resistance to parasitoids by Drosophila. Heredity 84, 1-8. 

Fellowes, M.D.E. & Travis, J.M.J. 2000 Linking host-parasitoid coevolutionary and population dynamics. Population Ecology 42, 195-203. 

Fellowes, M.D.E., Kraaijeveld, A.R. & Godfray, H.C.J. 1999 Cross-resistance following artificial selection for increased defense against parasitoids in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 53, 966-972.

Fellowes, M.D.E., Kraaijeveld, A.R. & Godfray, H.C.J. 1999 Association between feeding rate and parasitoid resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 53, 1303-1305. 

Fellowes, M.D.E., Kraaijeveld, A.R. & Godfray, H.C.J. 1999 The cost of defence by Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera, Drosophilidae) against attack by the parasitoid Asobara tabida (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12, 123-128. 
Leather, S.R., Cooke, R.C.A., Fellowes, M.D.E. & Rombe, R. 1999 Distribution and occurrence of Coccinellids in non-crop habitats. European Journal of Entomology 96, 23-27. 

Fellowes, M.D.E., Compton, S.G. & Cook, J.M. 1999 Sex allocation and local mate competition in Old World parasitic fig-wasps. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 46, 95-102. 

Fellowes, M.D.E. 1998 Trade-offs and the evolution of host resistance to parasitoid attack. In: Proceedings of the VI European Congress of Entomology (eds.V. Brunnhofer & T. Soldan). Institute of Entomology: Czech Republic.

Fellowes, M.D.E. 1998 Do non-social insects get the (kin) recognition they deserve? Ecological Entomology 23, 223-227.

Fellowes, M.D.E. & Kraaijeveld, A.R. 1998 Coping with multiple enemies - the evolution of defence and host-parasitoid community structure. Ecology Letters 1, 8-10.

Fellowes, M.D.E., Kraaijeveld, A.R. & Godfray, H.C.J. 1998 Trade-offs constraining the evolution of Drosophila melanogaster defence against attack by the parasitoid Leptopilina boulardi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 265, 1553-1558.

Fellowes, M.D.E., Masnatta, P., Kraaijeveld, A.R. & Godfray, H.C.J. 1998 Pupal parasitoid attack influences the relative fitness of Drosophila that have encapsulated larval parasitoids. Ecological Entomology 23, 281-284.

Leather, S.R., Beare, J.A., Cooke, R.C.A. & Fellowes, M.D.E. 1998 Are differences in life history parameters of the pine beauty moth Panolis flammea modified by host plant quality or gender? Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 87, 237-243. 

Leather, S.R., Fellowes, M.D.E., Hayman, G.R.F. & Maxen, J.S. 1997 The influence of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) provenance on the development and survival of the pine beauty moth Panolis flammea (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 87, 75-80.