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Dr Jon Copley

Dr Jon T Copley

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Specialism

Marine Ecology

Research Interests

My research examines the processes that determine patterns of diversity and abundance in communities occupying insular marine habitats (e.g. hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and coastal lagoons). These communities typically exhibit comparatively low diversity, high endemism, limited dispersal between sites and successional dynamics; these features make them "natural laboratories" in which to investigate interactions between ecology, genetics, evolution and biogeography. Please visit my personal webpage for more detailed information; current projects include:

  • Patterns of diversity and abundance in deep-sea chemosynthetic environments (collaboration with Tim Ferrero, Natural History Museum and Cindy Van Dover, Duke University; Flint et al., in press)
  • Assessment of long-term ecological change at a deep Mid-Atlantic hydrothermal vent (collaboration with Rob Reves-Sohn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
  • Determination of reproductive seasonality at a Gulf of Mexico cold seep (collaboration with Craig Young, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology; Copley & Young, 2006)
  • Ecology of Antarctic hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and methane hydrates (£3.3 million NERC Consortium project starting May 2008)

    Dr Jon T Copley's personal webpage