Owen Petchey
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Research interests
Predictive ecology, population, community, and ecosystem ecology; effects of environmental change; modelling biological systems; statistical computing
CV
Education and professional positions
| 2017 - present | Full Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2020 - present | Vice Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2017 - present | Director of the Global Change and Biodiversity URPP |
| 2014 - present | Guest Researcher at EAWAG |
| 2014 - 2020 | Director of the Ecology PhD Programme and Life Science Zurich Graduate School |
| 2016 | Sabbatical visitor, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
| 2011 - 2020 | Director of the Biology Masters in Ecology |
| 2011 - 2017 | Associate Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland Visiting Researcher, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2013 - 2016 | Co-Director of the Global Change and Biodiversity URPP |
| 2003 - 2011 | Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2000 - 2003 | NERC Research Fellow, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 1997 - 2000 | Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, NJ, USA |
| 1994 - 1997 | Ph.D., Imperial College, London, UK |
| 1991 - 1994 | B.A. (Hons) Natural Sciences, King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK |
| to 1991 | General education at Sherard Primary School, Sarson High School, King Edward VII Upper School, Melton Mowbray, UK |
Selected publications
See full publication list on Google Scholar.
- Polazzo, F., Limberger, R., Pennekamp, F., Ross, S.R.P.-J., Simpson, G.L., & Petchey OL (2024). Measuring the response diversity of ecological communities experiencing multifarious environmental change. Global Change Biology, 30, e17594. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17594
- Bärtschi, P. & Petchey OL (2024). Reflecting on the symmetry of ecosystem tipping points: The influence of trait dissimilarity and environmental driver dynamics in a simple ecosystem model. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11421 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11421
- Ghosh, S., Matthews, B., & Petchey OL (2024). Temperature and biodiversity influence community stability differently in birds and fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8, 1835-1846. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02493-7
- Daugaard, U., Merkli, S., Merz, E., Pomati, F. & Petchey OL (2024). The dependence of forecasts on sampling frequency as a guide to optimizing monitoring in community ecology. Ecosphere, 15, e4786. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4786
- Gupta, A., Figueroa, H., O’Gorman, E., Jones, I., Woodward, G. & Petchey OL (2023) How many predator guts are required to predict trophic interactions? Food Webs, e00269. DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2022.e00269
- Limberger, R., Daugaard, U., Gupta, A., Krug, R., Lemmen, K., Moorsel, S. van, Suleiman, M., Zuppinger-Dingley, D. & Petchey OL (2023) Functional diversity can facilitate the collapse of an undesirable ecosystem state. Ecology Letters, 26, 883-895. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14217
- Ross, SR P-J, Petchey OL, Sasaki, T. & Armitage, D. W. (2023) How to measure response diversity. Methods in Ecology, 14, 1150-1167. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14087
- Gupta, A., Furrer, R., & Petchey OL (2022) Simultaneously estimating food web connectance and structure with uncertainty. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8643. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8643
- Suleiman, M., Pennekamp, F., Choffat, Y. & Petchey OL (2022) Contrasting resistance and resilience to light variation of the coupled oxic and anoxic components of an experimental microbial ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8793. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8793.
