Greg McInerny

I am in the Second year of my PhD at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Banchory (www.ceh.ac.uk) and the University of Leeds (www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk). Using experimental microcosms (soil mites) and simulation models (C++), I am investigating how ecological and evolutionary processes, and their interaction, are affected by environmental change and spatial structuring. In particular my studies focus on: •How the scale and type of spatial patterning in the environment interacts with individual, population and intra-specific processes to shape population structure. •The impact of population structure on ecological and evolutionary processes that determine responses to perturbation and environmental change. •How scale differences between processes may impact these responses to change. •The power of dispersal in assorting population variation and its impact on projecting responses to a period of environmental change.