Professor Luca Borger

Professor Luca Borger
Professor
Biosciences
Telephone: (01792) 513112
Room: Academic Office - 137
First Floor
Wallace Building
Singleton Campus
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Areas of Expertise

  • Movement ecology
  • Population ecology
  • Community ecology
  • statistics
  • spatial ecology
  • Agroecology
  • Biodiversity
  • Applied ecology
  • roe deer
  • animal movements
  • habitat use
  • home range
  • biodiversity

Publications

  1. Morris, A., Börger, L., Crooks, E., Borger, L. Individual Variability in Dispersal and Invasion Speed Mathematics 7 9 795
  2. Potts, J., Börger, L., Scantlebury, D., Bennett, N., Alagaili, A., Wilson, R., Borger, L. Finding turning-points in ultra-high-resolution animal movement data Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 10 2091 2101
  3. Froy, H., Börger, L., Regan, C., Morris, A., Morris, S., Pilkington, J., Crawley, M., Clutton-Brock, T., Pemberton, J., Nussey, D., Borger, L. Declining home range area predicts reduced late-life survival in two wild ungulate populations Ecology Letters 21 7 1001 1009
  4. Street, G., Avgar, T., Börger, L., Borger, L. Net displacement and temporal scaling: Model fitting, interpretation and implementation Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  5. Cozzi, G., Maag, N., Börger, L., Clutton-Brock, T., Ozgul, A., Borger, L. Socially informed dispersal in a territorial cooperative breeder Journal of Animal Ecology

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Teaching

  • BIO252 Ecological Data Analysis

    This module introduces students to the basics of analyzing ecological data, using the R Software Environment for Statistical Computing. The topics covered will be also broad enough to be equally applicable to basic data analysis across biology. Students will receive 8 computer-based workshops/practicals, complemented by 9 lectures before each workshop. Furthermore, a weekly drop-in stats help session will be provided, as well as help through a course Facebook page. The module will cover 5 key themes: 1). Data analysis and statistics, reproducibility and the R Software Environment; 2). Data management; 3). Data visualization; 4). Data analysis - The general linear model; 5). Data analysis - Presentation of results and outline of more advanced methods. The module will be subject to continuous assessment consisting of 3 pieces of computer-based work (60% of final mark), which will require the students to carefully complete all course work assigned on a weekly basis ('independent learning'), in order to be able to complete the assignments. A further 40% of the final mark will consist in a data analysis report, to be completed after the end of the course. Weekly readings and non-assessed computer-based exercises will be assigned, too.

Supervision

  • Early life behavioural development in juvenile meerkat siblings. (title provided in the proposal) (current)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • Developing a new method to quantify breeding territory size: an example in the male Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) (current)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Dr Kayleigh Rose

  • The past, present and future role of dispersal and life history traits in determining global biogeographic and biodiversity patterns (PaPreFuD). (current)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Dr William Allen

  • Host traits and spatial context drive helminth spread in mammal and bird assemblages (current)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Dr Konstans Wells

  • A study of head tag movement on slow moving reptiles. A case study on giant tortoises. (current)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • The variation in movement metrics/lifestyles between species of contrasting life histories and body sizes. (current)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • Comparing the Meerkat: Using biologging to understand differential development in juvenile meerkats Suricata suricatta. (current)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • Seal movements across multiple scales: models, methods and management applications (current)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Dr James Bull

  • How does the weather influence bird flight energy expenditure? Disentangling habitat, behaviour and flight style. (current)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Dr Emily Shepard

  • Solving the MOVement Rubik’s Cube: uncovering intra and interspecific movement strategies of large herbivores subjected to 6«br /» major movement constraints (current)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Dr Rowan Brown

  • A reef in motion; space-time-species interactions in a coral-based community (current)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • Alpine ungulates movement (ALPEN): Quantification of spatiotemporal environmental energetics and social interaction. (current)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Dr Rowan Brown

  • Linking plant demography, ecological dynamics and population genetics across space and time. (current)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Dr James Bull

  • The distribution and site fidelity of a rare, non-commercial elashmobranch (awarded 2019)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Dr James Bull

  • The role of polymorphism, mutation and trade-offs in spreading speeds of biological invasions (awarded 2019)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Prof Elaine Crooks

  • Determinants of fine-scale movements in the trajectories of Magellanic penguins Spheniscus magellanicus navigating between their nests and the sea (awarded 2019)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • 'Life in the slow lane: The sloth niche, divine or dangerous?' (awarded 2018)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Other supervisor: Dr Emily Shepard
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • 'Ecological engineers on the move: Identifying the environmental factors controlling the movement and dispersal of the Aldabra tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) on Round Island, Mauritius.' (awarded 2018)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • ''Behaviour, energetics and movement through biologging in the Canidae'' (awarded 2018)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • 'The movement and space-use of grey seals, Halichoerus grypus, in the Pembrokeshire Marine SAC (awarded 2018)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Dr James Bull

  • COMPADRE PREDICTS: Demographic traits mediate plant population responses to local land use change (awarded 2018)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Dr Cynthia Froyd

  • 'Can vulture distributions be predicted according to their body size, and the environmental parameters they currently operate in?' (awarded 2017)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Dr Emily Shepard

  • 'The role of PCBs on parasitism in harbour porpoise using UK strandings data' (awarded 2017)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Dr James Bull

  • 'Ecological proxies in a half shell: What dictates the movement of ecological analogue, Aldabra Tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) on Round Island, Mauritius' (awarded 2017)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

  • 'Dynamic ungulates and the use of accelerometry to define movement patterns' (awarded 2017)

    Student name:
    MRes
    Other supervisor: Prof Rory Wilson

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