Dr Lois Kinneen

• Tropical ecology
• Plant-insect interactions
• Biodiversity and conservation

My main research interests include plant and invertebrate ecology in human-modified systems, particularly in the tropics. For my PhD I focused on the effects of rainforest fragmentation through oil-palm expansion on insect herbivory and chemical leaf defence in Malaysian Borneo. I have also previously been involved in projects that used morphological trait-based and molecular techniques for species identification and to assign pollinator species to functional groups.

I have a strong passion for field research and have been lucky enough to have carried out data collection in a wide range of ecosystems, both temperate and tropical including Ireland, Spain, Poland, Uganda, South Africa, Borneo, Australia and Colombia.