Owen Jones

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Research areas

Research area

The variety of life histories displayed by the world’s animals and plants has fascinated scientists for centuries. Some organisms have short lives, while others have long lives. Some reproduce abundantly, while others produce fewer offspring. Some can enter dormancy of some kind, while others can not. Some are caring parents, or are highly social, while others are not.

My research area is centred on understanding the patterns, causes, and consequences of this variation across the tree of life and in different environments.

Education/Academic qualification

Biology, PhD, Imperial College London

Ecology, MSc, University of Aberdeen

Biology, BSc, University of York

Research areas

Biodiversity
Evolution
Conservation
Population biology

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Research Output 2005 2020

42 Journal article
2 Book chapter
2 Review
1 Book
4 More

Comments to “Persistent problems in the construction of matrix population models”

Che-Castaldo, J., Jones, O. R., Kendall, B. E., Burns, J. H., Childs, D. Z., Ezard, T. H. G., Hernandez-Yanez, H., Hodgson, D. J., Jongejans, E., Knight, T., Merow, C., Ramula, S., Stott, I., Vindenes, Y., Yokomizo, H. & Salguero-Gómez, R., 15. Jan 2020, In : Ecological Modelling. 416, 108913.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer-review

Genetic structure of the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) in Denmark

Rasmussen, S. L., Nielsen, J. L., Jones, O., Berg, T. B. & Pertoldi, C., 17. Jan 2020, In : PLOS ONE. 15, 1, 21 p., e0227205.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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Erinaceus europaeus

Erinaceidae

Denmark

Conservation

Association reactions

24 Downloads (Pure)

Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction

Healy, K., Ezard, T. H. G., Jones, O. R., Salguero-Gómez, R. & Buckley, Y. M., Aug 2019, In : Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3, p. 1217-1224 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

life history

mortality

animals

phylogenetics

animal

111 Downloads (Pure)

Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology

Conde, D. A., Staerk, J., Colchero, F., da Silva, R., Schöley, J., Baden, H. M., Jouvet, L., Fa, J. E., Syed, H., Jongejans, E., Meiri, S., Gaillard, J-M., Chamberlain, S., Wilcken, J., Jones, O. R., Dahlgren, J. P., Steiner, U. K., Bland, L. M., Gomez-Mestre, I., Lebreton, J-D. & 13 others, González Vargas, J., Flesness, N., Canudas-Romo, V., Salguero-Gómez, R., Byers, O., Berg, T. B., Scheuerlein, A., Devillard, S., Schigel, D. S., Ryder, O. A., Possingham, H. P., Baudisch, A. & Vaupel, J. W., 7. May 2019, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 19, p. 9658–9664

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Clutch Size

Population

Litter Size

Reptiles

Biodiversity

19 Downloads (Pure)

Demographic amplification is a predictor of invasiveness among plants

Jelbert, K., Buss, D., McDonald, J., Townley, S., Franco, M., Stott, I., Jones, O., Salguero-Gómez, R., Buckley, Y., Knight, T., Silk, M., Sargent, F., Rolph, S., Wilson, P. & Hodgson, D., Dec 2019, In : Nature Communications. 10, 6 p., 5602.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Amplification

Population dynamics

Biodiversity

predictions

Ecosystems

Activities 2010 2019

15 Organisation or participation in workshops, courses or seminars
12 Talks and presentations in private or public companies
8 Conference organisation or participation
7 Visiting another research institution
4 More

NERC Advanced Training Short Course: Stage-based demographic models in ecology, evolution and conservation

Owen Jones (Participant)

7. Jan 2019 → 11. Jan 2019

Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses or seminars

British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2018

Owen Jones (Participant)

16. Dec 2018 → 19. Dec 2018

Activity: Attending an event › Conference organisation or participation

Introducing the open-access COMPADRE (plants) and COMADRE (animals) databases, and associated tools and materials, with special emphasis on comparative analyses of life history and population biology

Gesa Römer (Panel member), Roberto Salguero-Gómez (Organizer), Owen Jones (Organizer)

16. Dec 2018

Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses or seminars

University of Exeter

Iain Stott (Visiting researcher), Owen Jones (Visiting researcher), David Hodgson (Visiting researcher)

4. Apr 2018 → 6. Apr 2018

Activity: Visiting another research institution

All Creatures Fast and Slow: comparative life history using matrix population models.

Owen Jones (Organizer), Iain Stott (Participant)

17. Dec 2017 → 20. Dec 2017

Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses or seminars

Projects 2016 2020

1 Active
2 Finished

Could senescence be adaptive? Causes and consequences of aging across the tree of life

Jones, O. & Stott, I.

01/05/2017 → 30/04/2019

Project: Research

EU – Horizon 2020 - Excellent Science - MSCA Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions - Could senescence be adaptive? causes and consequences of aging across the tree of life

Jones, O.

01/05/2017 → 31/08/2019

Project: Research

Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet – FNU - Modelling demographic responses to climate change across the animal and plant kingdoms

Jones, O.

01/12/2016 → 31/07/2020

Project: Research

Press / Media

Det Danske Pindsvineprojekt: Hvordan har vores pindsvin det egentlig derude?

Owen Jones

20/01/2020

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Press / Media

Pindsvineunger klarer sig i forstæderne

Owen Jones

06/11/2019

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Press / Media

Musvitter hjælper klimaforskere

Owen Jones

16/06/2018

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Press / Media

Musvitter hjælper klimaforskere

Owen Jones

16/06/2018

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Press / Media

Musvitter hjælper klimaforskere

Owen Jones

16/06/2018

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Press / Media

Prizes

Cozzarelli Prize

Fernando Colchero (Recipient), Roland Rau (Recipient), Owen Jones (Recipient), Julia A. Barthold (Recipient), Dalia Amor Conde (Recipient), Adam Lenart (Recipient), Laszlo Nemeth (Recipient), Alexander Scheuerlein (Recipient), Jonas Schöley (Recipient), Catalina Torres (Recipient), Virginia Zarulli (Recipient), Jeanne Altmann (Recipient), Diane K Brockman (Recipient), Anne M Bronikowski (Recipient), Linda M Fedigan (Recipient), Anne E Pusey (Recipient), Tara S Stoinski (Recipient), Karen B Strier (Recipient), Annette Baudisch (Recipient), Susan C Alberts (Recipient) & James W. Vaupel (Recipient), 2016