Professor Innes Cuthill

Research summary

I wear two hats, behavioural ecologist and sensory ecologist, although the unifying theme is the explanation of the factors shaping the design, through natural selection, of animal form and function ...

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Biography

Appointments 

2008-2012              Head of School, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

1998-present          Professor of Behavioural Ecology, University of Bristol.

1996-1998              Reader in Behavioural Ecology, University of Bristol.

1989-1996              Lecturer ...

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Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Groups

• Behaviour, Sensory and Neurobiology

Labs

• Behavioural Biology
• Ecology of Vision

Selected publications

• Cuthill, I & Székely, A 2009, ‘Coincident disruptive coloration’. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, vol 364(1516)., pp. 489 - 496
• Cuthill, I, Stevens, M, Sheppard, J, Maddocks, T, Párraga, C & Troscianko, T 2005, ‘Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching’. Nature, vol 434 (1)., pp. 72 - 74

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Latest publications

• Hall, JR, Cuthill, IC, Baddeley, RJ, Shohet, AJ & Scott-Samuel, NE 2013, ‘Camouflage, detection and identification of moving targets’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, vol 280.
• Wearmouth, VJ, Southall, EJ, Morritt, D, Thompson, RC, Cuthill, IC, Partridge, JC & Sims, DW 2012, ‘Year-round sexual harassment as a behavioral mediator of vertebrate population dynamics’. Ecological Monographs, vol 82., pp. 351-366

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