Staff Profile:Professor Mark Fellowes

Name:

Professor Mark Fellowes

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

Professor of Ecology

Areas of Interest:

• Funding from BBSRC, NERC, international governments, charities
• Urban ecology of birds, mammals and insects
• Urban greening and biodiversity
• Indirect interactions in ecology
• Evolutionary ecology of enemy-victim interactions
• Tropical and sub-tropical ecology
• Leopard conservation and human-wildlife conflict
• Pedagogy of teaching field skills
• Evolutionary ecology
• Behavioural ecology
• Human-wildlife interactions
• Urban ecology
• Host-parasitoid interactions

Member of the Ecology Research Group

Research groups / Centres:

Impact, Enterprise and Outreach:

• Numerous interviews for broadcast and print media
• Talks given to local and national organisations
• Co-author of Garden Entomology, popular science booklet for the Royal Entomological Society
• Silver medal, Chelsea Flower Show 2013

Esteem Factors:

• Associate Editor, Ecological Entomology (Wiley/Blackwell)
• Associate Editor, Bioscience Horizons
• Editorial Board, European Journal of Entomology
• Former editor of Antenna, bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society
• Editorial board member for Agricultural and Forest Entomology
• Co-editor of 30-Second Biology, popular science book currently in preparation
• Fellow, Society of Biology
• Zoology liaison, for the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Organisation

Teaching:

• Part 1: Ecology: Species and their Interactions
• Part 2: Tropical Biology Field Course to Madagascar

Publications:

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Number of items: 63.

2018

• Rocha, E. A. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2018) Does urbanization explain differences in interactions between an insect herbivore and its natural enemies and mutualists? Urban Ecosystems. ISSN 1083-8155 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-017-0727-5
• Rocha, E. A., Souza, E. N. F., Bleakley, L. A. D., Burley, C., Mott, J. L., Rue-Glutting, G. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2018) Influence of urbanisation and garden plants on the diversity and abundance of aphids and their ladybird and hoverfly predators. European Journal of Entomology, 115. pp. 140-149. ISSN 1210-5759 doi: https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2018.013

2017

• Hanmer, H. J., Thomas, R. L. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2017) Urbanisation influences range size of the domestic cat (Felis catus): consequences for conservation. Journal of Urban Ecology, 3 (1). jux014. ISSN 2058-5543 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/jux014
• Hanmer, H. J.,, Thomas, R. L., Beswick, G. J. F., Collins, B. P. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2017) Use of anthropogenic material affects bird nest arthropod community structure: influence of urbanisation, and consequences for ectoparasites and fledging success. Journal of Ornithology, 158 (4). pp. 1045-1059. ISSN 0021-8375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-017-1462-7
• Hanmer, H. J., Thomas, R. L. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2017) Provision of supplementary food for wild birds may increase the risk of local nest predation. Ibis, 159 (1). pp. 158-167. ISSN 0019-1019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12432
• Thomas, R. L. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2017) Effectiveness of mobile apps in teaching field-based identification skills. Journal of Biological Education, 51 (2). pp. 136-143. ISSN 0021-9266 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2016.1177573
• Pirie, T. J., Thomas, R. L. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2017) Game fence presence and permeability influences the local movement and distribution of South African mammals. African Zoology, 52 (4). pp. 217-227. ISSN 1562-7020 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2017.1410074
• Pirie, T. J., Thomas, R. L. and Fellowes, M. (2017) Increasing game prices may alter farmers’ behaviours towards leopards (Panthera pardus) and other carnivores in South Africa. PeerJ, 5. e3369. ISSN 2167-8359 doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3369

2016

• Battey, N. H. and Fellowes, M., eds. (2016) Know-it-all biology: the 50 most elemental concepts of biology, each explained in under a minute. 30-Second Science. Wellfleet Press, pp160. ISBN 9781782403890 (In Press)
• Pirie, T. J., Thomas, R. L. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2016) Erythristic leopards Panthera pardus in South Africa. Bothalia - African Biodiversity and Conservation, 46 (1). ISSN 0006-8241 doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v46i1.2034
• Pirie, T. J., Thomas, R. L. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2016) Limitations to recording larger mammalian predators in savannah using camera traps and spoor. Wildlife Biology, 22 (1). pp. 13-21. ISSN 0909-6396 doi: https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00129

2015

• Campbell, H., Fellowes, M. D.E. and Cook, J. (2015) The curious case of the camelthorn: competition, coexistence and nest-site limitation in a multispecies mutualism. American Naturalist, 186 (6). E172-E181. ISSN 0003-0147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/683462
• Smith, L. S. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2015) The influence of plant species number on productivity, ground coverage and floral performance in grass-free lawns. Landscape and Ecological Engineering, 11 (2). pp. 249-257. ISSN 1860-188X doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11355-014-0264-9
• Fellowes, M. and Battey, N., eds. (2015) 30-second evolution. Ivy Press, Lewes, pp160. ISBN 9781848318403
• Orros, M. E., Thomas, R. L., Holloway, G. J. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2015) Supplementary feeding of wild birds indirectly affects ground beetle populations in suburban gardens. Urban Ecosystems, 18 (2). pp. 465-475. ISSN 1083-8155 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-014-0404-x
• Orros, M. E. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2015) Wild bird feeding in an urban area: intensity, economics and numbers of individuals supported. Acta Ornithologica, 50 (1). pp. 43-58. ISSN 0001-6454 doi: https://doi.org/10.3161/00016454AO2015.50.1.006
• Smith, L. S. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2015) The grass-free lawn: floral performance and management implications. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 14 (3). pp. 490-499. ISSN 1618-8667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2015.04.010
• Orros, M. E. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2015) Widespread supplementary feeding in domestic gardens explains the return of reintroduced Red Kites Milvus milvus to an urban area. Ibis, 157 (2). pp. 230-238. ISSN 1474-919X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12237
• Campbell, H., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Cook, J. M. (2015) Species diversity and dominance-richness relationships for ground and arboreal ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) assemblages in Namibian desert, saltpan, and savannah. Myrmecological News, 21. pp. 37-47. ISSN 1994-4136
• Smith, L. S., Broyles, M. E. J., Larzleer, H. K. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2015) Adding value to the urban lawnscape: insect abundance and diversity in grass-free lawns. Biodiversity and Conservation, 24 (1). pp. 47-62. ISSN 0960-3115 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0788-1

2014

• Thomas, R. L., Baker, P. J. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2014) Ranging characteristics of the domestic cat (Felis catus) in an urban environment. Urban Ecosystems, 17 (4). pp. 911-921. ISSN 1083-8155 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-014-0360-5
• Orros, M. E. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2014) Supplementary feeding of the reintroduced Red Kite (Milvus milvus) in UK gardens. Bird Study, 61 (2). pp. 260-263. ISSN 0006-3657 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2014.885491
• Pirie, T. J., Thomas, R. L., Reilly, B. K. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2014) Interactions between a male leopard (Panthera pardus) and two generations of his offspring. African Journal of Ecology, 52 (4). pp. 574-576. ISSN 1365-2028 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12154
• Smith, L. S. and Fellowes, M. (2014) The grass-free lawn: management and species choice for optimum ground cover and plant diversity. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 13 (3). pp. 433-442. ISSN 1618-8667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2014.04.008

2013

• Barnett, J. B., Benbow, R. L., Ismail, A. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2013) Abundance and diversity of anurans in regenerating former Oil Palm plantations in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia. Herpetological Bulletin, 125. pp. 1-9. ISSN 1473-0928
• Smith, L. S. and Fellowes, M. (2013) Towards a lawn without grass: the journey of the imperfect lawn and its analogues. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, 33 (3). pp. 157-169. ISSN 1943-2186 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2013.799314
• Campbell, H., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Cook, J. (2013) Arboreal thorn-dwelling ants use domatia morphology to partition nest sites on the savanna ant-plant, Vachellia erioloba. Insects Sociaux, 60 (3). pp. 373-382. ISSN 1420-9098 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-013-0307-5
• Campbell, H., Townsend, I. R., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Cook, J. M. (2013) Thorn-dwelling ants provide antiherbivore defence for camelthorn trees, Vachellia erioloba, in Namibia. African Journal of Ecology, 51 (4). pp. 590-598. ISSN 1365-2028 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12070

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, 13 (3). pp. 286-293. ISSN 1439-1791 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2012.03.001
• Thomas, R. L., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Baker, P. J. (2012) Spatio-temporal variation in predation by urban domestic cats (Felis catus) and the acceptability of possible management actions in the UK. PLoS ONE, 7 (11). e49369. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049369

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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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. 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, Texas, 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 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00703.x
• 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: https://doi.org/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 1471-2954 doi: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3032.2003.00309.x

2002

• Stacey, D. A. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2002) Influence of elevated CO2 on interspecific interactions at higher trophic levels. Global Change Biology, 8 (7). pp. 668-678. ISSN 1365-2486 doi: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00506.x
• Stacey, D. A. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2002) Influence of temperature on pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera: Aphididae) resistance to natural enemy attack. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 92 (4). pp. 351-357. ISSN 0007-4853 doi: https://doi.org/10.1079/ber2002173
• Morris, R. J. and Fellowes, M. (2002) Learning and natal host influence host preference, handling time and sex allocation behaviour in a pupal parasitoid. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 51 (4). pp. 386-393. ISSN 0340-5443 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-001-0439-x
• Stacey, D. A. and Fellowes, M. D. E. (2002) Temperature and the development rates of thrips: evidence for a constraint on local adaptation? European Journal of Entomology, 99 (3). pp. 399-404. ISSN 1210-5759

2001

• Fellowes, M. D. E. and Hutcheson, K. (2001) Flies in the face of adversity. Biologist, 48 (2). pp. 75-78. ISSN 0006-3347
• Collins, C.M., Fellowes, M.D.E., Sage, R.B. and 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 (3). pp. 183-193. ISSN 1461-9563 doi: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-9555.2001.00105.x

2000

• Fellowes, M. D. E. and Travis, J. M. J. (2000) Linking the coevolutionary and population dynamics of host-parasitoid interactions. Population Ecology, 42 (2). pp. 195-203. ISSN 1438-3896
• Fellowes, M. D. E. and Godfray, H. C. J. (2000) The evolutionary ecology of resistance to parasitoids by Drosophila. Heredity, 84 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1365-2540 doi: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00685.x

1999

• Fellowes, M. D. E., Kraaijeveld, A. R. and Godfray, H. C. J. (1999) Association between feeding rate and parasitoid resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution, 53 (4). pp. 1302-1305. ISSN 0014-3820
• Fellowes, M. D. E., Kraaijeveld, A. R. and Godfray, H. C. J. (1999) Cross-resistance following artificial selection for increased defense against parasitoids in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution, 53 (3). pp. 966-972. ISSN 0014-3820
• Leather, S. R., Cooke, R. C. A., Fellowes, M. D. E. and Rombe, R. (1999) Distribution and abundance of ladybirds (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) in non-crop habitats. European Journal of Entomology, 96 (1). pp. 23-27. ISSN 1210-5759
• Fellowes, M. D. E., Compton, S. G. and Cook, J. M. (1999) Sex allocation and local mate competition in Old World non-pollinating fig wasps. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 46 (2). pp. 95-102. ISSN 0340-5443
• Fellowes, M. D. E., Kraaijeveld, A. R. and Godfray, H. C. J. (1999) The relative fitness of Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera, Drosophilidae) that have successfully defended themselves against the parasitoid Asobara tabida (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 12 (1). pp. 123-128. ISSN 1010-061X

1998

• Leather, S. R., Beare, J. A., Cooke, R. C. A. and 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 (3). pp. 237-243. ISSN 0013-8703
• Fellowes, M. D. E. and Kraaijeveld, A. R. (1998) Coping with multiple enemies - the evolution of resistance and host-parasitoid community structure. Ecology Letters, 1 (1). pp. 8-10. ISSN 1461-023X
• Fellowes, M. D. E. (1998) Do non-social insects get the (kin) recognition they deserve? Ecological Entomology, 23 (2). pp. 223-227. ISSN 0307-6946
• Fellowes, M. D. E., Masnatta, P., Kraaijeveld, A. R. and Godfray, H. C. J. (1998) Pupal parasitoid attack influences the relative fitness of Drosophila that have encapsulated larval parasitoids. Ecological Entomology, 23 (3). pp. 281-284. ISSN 0307-6946
• Fellowes, M. D. E., Kraaijeveld, A. R. and Godfray, H. C. J. (1998) Trade-off associated with selection for increased ability to resist parasitoid attack in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 265 (1405). pp. 1553-1558. ISSN 0962-8452

1997

• Leather, S. R., Fellowes, M. D. E., Hayman, G. R. F. and Maxen, J. S. (1997) The influence of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) provenance on the development and survival of larvae of the pine beauty moth Panolis flammea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 87 (1). pp. 75-80. ISSN 0007-4853

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