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Research At Durham

Does interspecific behavioural interference limit the ability of species to range shifts? I workon a genus of damselflies,Hetaerina, where species engage and experience varying levels ofaggressive and reproductive interference. Do the ranges ofHetaerinaspecies that experience lower levels of interspecific interference expand more rapidly?

Journal Article

• Patterson, C. W., & Drury, J. P. (2024). Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions. Biological Reviews, 98(6), 2012-2027. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12993
• Patterson, C. W., Bonillas-Monge, E., Brennan, A., Grether, G. F., Mendoza-Cuenca, L., Tucker, R., Vega-Sánchez, Y. M., & Drury, J. (2024). A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia). Journal of Heredity, 115(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad070
• Sanders, D., Frago, E., Kehoe, R., Patterson, C., & Gaston, K. J. (2021). A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01322-x
• Patterson, C., Slater, M., Early, R., & Laing, C. (2020). The status of Clibanarius erythropus after a recent range expansion to Great Britain, with the highest latitude recording of a gravid individual. Marine Biodiversity Records, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-020-00186-1