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We aim to understand how natural selection and evolution shape the biological diversity seen in wild animal populations. Our work focuses mainly on the the long-term studies of red deer on the Isle of Rum and Soay sheep on the St Kilda islands, both in NW Scotland, but has also involved studies on several other vertebrate populations (guillemots, shags, great tits, blue tits, collared flycatchers, bighorn sheep, humans, red squirrels).
Group Members
- Loeske Kruuk (head of group)
- Craig Walling (postdoc, NERC)
- Jeff Lane (postdoc, Royal Society North American Fellowship)
- Peter Korsten (postdoc, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship)
- Arild Husby (PhD student)
- Michelle Clements (PhD student) Adam Hayward (PhD student)
Field Assistants
- Jill Pilkington (fieldworker on St Kilda Soay sheep)
- Ali Donald (fieldworker on Rum red deer)
- Martyn Baker (fieldworker on Rum red deer)
Previous Members
- Jarrod Hadfield (NERC postdoctoral fellow in WEG )
- Matt Robinson
- Tom Reed
- Renee Duckworth
- Kathi Foerster
- Alastair Wilson (NERC postdoctoral fellow in WEG)
- Dan Nussey (NERC postdoctoral fellow in WEG)