Doctorate

Title: Decomposer biodiversity and decomposition processes: the functional consequences of chemical and natural anthelmintics

Funding: Professor Sir Richard Southwood Scholarsip in Insect Ecology

University: Jesus College, University of Oxford

Supervisor: Dr Owen Lewis

Research Group: Oxford University Ecology Research Group

Additional Contributors: Paddocks Farm Ltd Verm-X Internal Parasite Control (others awaiting confirmation)

Start Date: October 2008

Project Overview:

Section awaiting completion.

News Updates:

The University of Oxford have awarded me the Professor Sir Richard Southwood Scholarship in Insect Ecology, starting October 2008 to study the impact of anthelmintic treatments on Dung Beetles.

I am currently planning my project, and liaising with farmers who have kindly offered to trial the different anthelmintic products on their cattle. I plan to carry out a series of preliminary experiments during the summer of 2008 in order to test my methods and generate a data set before the project begins in earnest.

I also have a large stack of papers on the subject, which I am slowly working my way through. When I go to Oxford in October, I hope to have read everything that has been published on the topic so I can begin a comprehensive literature review during the winter of 2008 before the next fieldwork season.

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