Professor Rob Fuller

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Director of Science at the British Trust for Ornithology. 

Email : rob.fuller@bto.org

My interests revolve around habitat selection in birds and the effects of ecosystem change on biodiversity.  Together with several colleagues at the BTO, the ecological consequences of agricultural intensification have been a major recent component of my work.  However, my main current focus is on factors influencing spatial and temporal variation in scrub and woodland bird communities.

Issues of particular interest include:

  • successional dynamics of bird communities;
  • effects of woodland management on biodiversity;
  • habitat networks in cultural landscapes;
  • habitat heterogeneity;
  • impacts of large herbivores;
  • large-scale spatial variation in habitat selection by birds.

The ecological implications of increasing numbers of deer in woodland has become a major interest and I am undertaking a long-term experiment on effects of deer on vegetation structure and bird communities in coppiced woodland. One of my main current projects is editing a book for the Ecological Reviews Series of Cambridge University Press on Birds and Habitat: Relationships in Changing Landscapes.  

See Professor Fuller's profile on the British trust for Ornithology website