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Katherine Jones

Katherine Jones

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Name: Katherine Jones
Position: DPhil. Student
Email: katherine.jones@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Autobiography

I graduated in 2002 with a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge. After briefly considering becoming a paleontologist, I thankfully decided ecology was the way to go! I then took a year out travelling, and recording blue tit song too early in the morning in Wytham woods with Tim Parker (former EGI member). I am currently doing a DPhil supervised by John Krebs and Mark Whittingham (now at Newcastle).

Research Activities

My thesis is extending the work of Simon Butler on the starvation-predation risk trade-off and the influence of habitat structure on farmland birds. I am particularly interested in functional responses, diet and different predator types (stalking versus aerial predators) and their influence upon vigilance behaviour of small granivores.

Selected Recent Papers

Jones, KA, Krebs, JR amp; Whittingham MJ. (In press). Vigilance in the third dimension:-head movement not scan duration differs in response to different predator models. Animal Behaviour.

Jones, KA, Krebs, JR & Whittingham MJ. 2006. Interaction between seed crypsis and habitat structure influence patch choice in a granivorous bird, the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs. J.Av.Biol. Volume 37 Page 413 -418. | Read abstract/paper online