Matthew Greenwell

Email:
m.p.greenwell@reading.ac.uk
Job title:
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Areas of interest

Expertise

Population genetics, landscape ecology, insect ecology, plant-insect interactions

Background

I first came to Reading almost ten years ago as an undergraduate studying Zoology. I stuck around to do a PhD in landscape ecology in the Social and Applied Ecology Research Group and am now a postdoctoral research associate in insect ecology with the Gripenberg Lab.

Awards and honours

NERC Digital Sprint Hackathon 3 (Ecosystem Services) – 2nd Place, 2020
Nominated for SBS PhD Researcher of The Year, University of Reading, 2020
University of Reading Celebrating Success Award – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2019
University of Reading 3 Minute Thesis - 1st place and national semi-finalist, 2019
University of Reading Research Video competition – 1st place, 2019

Websites/blogs

Connections

Selected publications

Papers:

Ecology

Hutchinson et al. (2022) Stability of crop pollinator occurrence is influenced by bee community composition. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:943309. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.943309
Greenwell et al. (2021). The influence of chalk grasslands on butterfly phenology and ecology. Ecol Evol. 11(21): 14521-14539. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8111
Evans et al. (2020). Behavioural modes in butterflies: their implications for movement and searching behaviour. Anim Behav 169:23-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.09.001
Greenwell et al. (2019). Predicting resilience of ecosystem functioning from co‐varying species' responses to environmental change. Ecol Evol. 9(2): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5679

People and Nature

Evans et al. (2023). Characterising the trophy hunting debate on Twitter. Conservation Biology 00 https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14070
Johnson, TF, Greenwell, MP. (2022). Are companies using Twitter to greenwash and hide bad environmental performance? Energ. Ecol. Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40974-021-00237-y
Greenwell MP, Johnson TF. (2022). Is it all talk: Do politicians that promote environmental messages on social media actually vote-in environmental policy?. Energ. Ecol. Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40974-022-00259-0
Johnson et al. (2021). Effect of park use and landscape structure on COVID-19 transmission rates. Science of the Total Environment. 789: 148123 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148123

Systems Thinking

Oliver et al. (2022). A safe and just operating space for human identity: a systems perspective. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(11), e919-e927. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00217-0
Oliver et al. (2021). Systemic environmental risk – protocols to appraise interventions for complex risks. SysRisk project final report, December 2021. https://www.sysrisk.org.uk/resources/
Da Costa*, Dornelles*, Greenwell* et al. (2022). EMPOWER UK: Empowering citizen and community adaptation to systemic risks from climate change in Reading, Wallingford, and Oxford. EMPOWER project, UK case study report, March 2022. https://www.empower-project.org/resources/ *Joint first authors.

Under Review

Greenwell et al. Monitoring spatiotemporal patterns in the genetic diversity of a European butterfly species. Under Review in Insect Conservation and Diversity.
Oliver et al. Empowering community-led adaptation to systemic risks from climate change. Under Review in Nature Climate Change.