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Dr Orly Razgour

Senior Lecturer in Ecology

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Hatherly Building, University of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4PS, UK

Overview

I am a molecular ecologist and conservation biologist, researching evolutionary and ecological responses to global environmental change.

My research sits at the interface between ecology, molecular biology, evolutionary biology and physical geography. I aim to understand how environmental heterogeneity at different spatial and temporal scales affects geographical distributions, genetic composition and ecological interactions. I carry out multidisciplinary research, combining genomic tools with ecological research and spatial, ecological and mathematical modelling. My research is applied in nature, aiming to provide the evidence base for managing our environment and conserving biodiversity. Much of my research has focused on bats as indicators of environmental change.

My group is involved in projects across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia.

Qualifications

2013 PhD Biological Sciences, University of Bristol

2008 MSc Ecology, Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University

2006 BSc Biodiversity Conservation, DICE, University of Kent

Career

2019 – Present Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter

2016 – 2019 Lecturer, University of Southampton

2015 – 2021 NERC Independent Research Fellow

2015 – Present Associated Researcher, CIBIO/InBio. University of Porto

2013 – 2015 Impact Research Fellow, University of Stirling

2013 GIS Specialist, Bat Conservation Trust

Research group links

Research

Research interests

My research programme addresses biodiversity responses to global environmental changes through four main areas of investigation:

1. Genomic approaches to studying species responses to climate change

Understanding the genetic basis of environmental adaptations is essential for predicting biodiversity responses to global change. I use genomic datasets (ddRAD-sequencing, RNA-sequencing, metagenomics) and combine population genomics and ecological approaches to identify signatures of climatic adaptations and project their effects on population persistence. My research focuses on the role of phenotypic plasticity and the gut microbiota versus genetic adaptations in facilitating species responses to climate change.

2. Relating landscape and environmental heterogeneity to movement processes

Geographic and environmental features of the landscape can structure genetic variation via their effect on dispersal and gene flow. Landscape genetics offers an interdisciplinary approach for relating spatial genetic patterns to the effects of environmental heterogeneity on the movement of organisms. I am particularly interested in the effects of anthropogenic land use changes and fragmentation on landscape connectivity and movement, and relating landscape connectivity to species’ range shifts under future climate change.

3. Ecological interactions and resource partitioning across spatial scales

My research group develops approaches to integrate interspecific interactions into broad-scale distribution models and fine-scale analysis of community composition and ecological requirements. We also use DNA metabarcoding to identify fine-scale patterns of trophic and habitat partitioning among competing species.

4. Biogeography and evolutionary history

Understanding how past climatic fluctuations during the Pleistocene affected the distribution of species and patterns of genetic variation across their ranges can help predict biodiversity responses to future changes. My research combines genetic and environmental data with spatial modelling and approximate Bayesian computation model-based inference to determine how past climatic changes shaped the evolutionary history and biogeography of species with different distributions and ecological requirements.

Research networks

UK Collaborators

Prof Rebecca Hoyle, Dr Kelvin Peh (University of Southampton)
Prof Justin Travis, Dr Great Bocedi (University of Aberdeen)
Prof Gareth Jones (University of Bristol)
Prof Kirsty Park, Dr John Taggart, Dr Michael Bekaert (University of Stirling)
Dr Elizabeth Clare (Queen Mary University of London)
Dr Emma Stone (University of the West of England)
Bat Conservation Trust

European Collaborators

Prof Stephanie Manel (Centre of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, CNRS)
Dr Javier Juste, Prof Carlos Ibáñez (Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC)
Dr Hugo Rebelo (CIBIO, University of Porto)
Dr Antton Alberdi, Prof Thomas Gilbert (University of Copenhagen)
Prof Danilo Russo (University of Naples Federico II)
Dr Sébastien Puechmaille (Montpellier University)

International Collaborators

Dr Brenna Forester (Colorado State University)
Dr Erin Landguth (University of Montana)
Dr Nathan Schumaker (US Environmental Protection Agency, Oregon State University)
Dr Bruna Bezerra (Federal University of Pernambuco)
Prof Carmi Korine (Ben-Gurion University)
Dr Mohammed Kasso (Dire Dawa University)
Bats without Borders

Research grants

2019 EU COST Action
Climate change and bats: from science to conservation (CLIMBATS)
2019 NERC
Pilot project grant: Identifying the genomic basis of adaptations to arid environments in bats
2019 NERC
INSPIRE NERC DTP PhD studentship: Investigating the effects of environmental change on tropical montane bats
2018 FCT (Portugal)
BatPine: Promoting the resilience of ecosystem services to climate change: a case study with pine plantations, pine processionary moth and bats
2018 NERC
SPITFIRE NERC DTP PhD Studentship: Factors affecting the distribution of cryptic anurans in Malaysian montane forests
2017 NERC
SPITFIRE NERC DTP PhD Studentship: How will greening the desert affect bats and the ecosystem services they provide?
2017 Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Biodiversity Information for Development Grant: Mobilising Bat Occurrence Data in Zambia
2015 NERC Advanced Fellowship
Developing an integrated framework for investigating biodiversity responses to global environmental change
2014 British Ecological Society (UK)
Up in the air: researching ecological connectivity in sky island bats of the Ethiopian Highlands
2014 Rufford Foundation
Using genetic tools to assess the conservation status of cave-dwelling bats in southern Africa
2014 Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society
Early Career Researcher Exchanges Grant
2013 University of Stirling Impact Fellowship
Fight or flight: The spatial genomics of bat species response to climate change

Publications

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Publications by category

Journal articles

Novella-Fernandez R, Juste J, Ibáñez C, Rebelo H, Russo D, Alberdi A, Kiefer A, Graham L, Paul H, Doncaster CP, et al (In Press). Broad-scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine-scale mechanisms of coexistence. Diversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography Full text.

Alberdi A, Razgour O, Aizpurua O, Novella-Fernandez R, Aihartza J, Budinski I, Garin I, Ibáñez C, Izagirre E, Rebelo H, et al (In Press). Diet diversification shapes broad-scale distribution patterns in European bats. Abstract.

Razgour O (In Press). Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition. Biological Reviews

Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies, and human well-being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under anthropogenic stressors and global environmental change will require new ways of deriving and applying biodiversity data. A major challenge is that biodiversity data and knowledge are scattered, biased, collected with numerous methods, and stored in inconsistent ways. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) has developed the Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) as fundamental metrics to help aggregate, harmonize and interpret biodiversity observation data from diverse sources. Mapping and analysing EBVs can help to evaluate how aspects of biodiversity are distributed geographically and how they change over time. EBVs are also intended to serve as inputs and validation to forecast the status and trends of biodiversity, and to support policy and decision making. Here, we assess the feasibility of implementing Genetic Composition EBVs (Genetic EBVs), which are metrics of within-species genetic variation. We review and bring together numerous areas of the field of genetics and evaluate how each contributes to global and regional genetic biodiversity monitoring with respect to theory, sampling logistics, metadata, archiving, data aggregation, modelling, and technological advances. We propose four Genetic EBVs: (1) genetic diversity; (2) genetic differentiation; (3) inbreeding; and (4) effective population size (Ne). We rank Genetic EBVs according to their relevance, sensitivity to change, generalizability, scalability, feasibility and data availability. We outline the workflow for generating genetic data underlying the Genetic EBVs, and review advances and needs in archiving genetic composition data and metadata. We discuss how Genetic EBVs can be operationalized by visualizing EBVs in space and time across species and by forecasting Genetic EBVs beyond current observations using various modelling approaches. Our review then explores challenges of aggregation, standardization, and costs of operationalizing the Genetic EBVs, as well as future directions and opportunities to maximize their uptake globally in research and policy. The collection, annotation, and availability of genetic data has made major advances in the past decade, each of which contributes to the practical and standardized framework for large-scale genetic observation reporting. Rapid advances in DNA sequencing technology present new opportunities, but also challenges for operationalizing Genetic EBVs for biodiversity monitoring regionally and globally. With these advances, genetic composition monitoring is starting to be integrated into global conservation policy, which can help support the foundation of all biodiversity and species’ long-term persistence in the face of environmental change. We conclude with a summary of concrete steps for researchers and policy makers for advancing operationalization of Genetic EBVs. The technical and analytical foundations of Genetic EBVs are well developed, and conservation practitioners should anticipate their increasing application as efforts emerge to scale up genetic biodiversity monitoring regionally and globally.

Abstract. Full text.

Moraes B, Razgour O, Souza- Alves JP, Boubli J, Bezerra B (In Press). Habitat suitability for primate conservation in north-east Brazil. Oryx: journal of fauna and flora international

Novella-Fernandez R, Ibañez C, Juste J, Clare EL, Doncaster CP, Razgour O (In Press). Trophic resource partitioning drives fine-scale coexistence in cryptic bat species. Ecology and Evolution Full text.

Novella-Fernandez R, Juste J, Ibañez C, Nogueras J, Osborne PE, Razgour O (2022). The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions. Scientific Reports, 12(1). Abstract. Full text.

Riley J, Zeale MRK, Razgour O, Turpin J, Jones G (2021). Predicting the past, present and future distributions of an endangered marsupial in a semi‐arid environment. Animal Conservation, 24(5), 890-903. Full text.

Aizpurua O, Nyholm L, Morris E, Chaverri G, Herrera Montalvo LG, Flores-Martinez JJ, Lin A, Razgour O, Gilbert MTP, Alberdi A, et al (2021). The role of the gut microbiota in the dietary niche expansion of fishing bats. Animal Microbiome, 3(1). Abstract. Full text.

Rocha R, Aziz SA, Brook CE, Carvalho WD, Cooper‐Bohannon R, Frick WF, Huang JC, Kingston T, López‐Baucells A, Maas B, et al (2020). Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID‐19. Animal Conservation, 24(3), 303-307. Full text.

Alberdi A, Razgour O, Aizpurua O, Novella-Fernandez R, Aihartza J, Budinski I, Garin I, Ibanez C, Izagirre E, Rebelo H, et al (2020). DNA metabarcoding and spatial modelling link diet diversification with distribution homogeneity in European bats. Nature Communications, 11 Full text.

White R, Razgour O (2020). Emerging zoonotic diseases originating in mammals: a systematic review of effects of anthropogenic land-use change. Mammal Review, 50, 336-352. Full text.

Razgour O, Kasso M, Santos H, Juste J (2020). Up in the air: threats to Afromontane biodiversity from climate change and habitat loss revealed by genetic monitoring of the Ethiopian Highlands bat. Evolutionary Applications: evolutionary approaches to environmental, biomedical and socio-economic issues, 14, 794-806. Full text.

Centeno‐Cuadros A, Razgour O, García‐Mudarra JL, Mingo‐Casas P, Sandonís V, Redondo A, Ibáñez C, Paz O, Martinez‐Alós S, Pérez Suarez G, et al (2019). Comparative phylogeography and asymmetric hybridization between cryptic bat species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 57(4), 1004-1018. Full text.

Razgour O, Forester B, Taggart JB, Bekaert M, Juste J, Ibáñez C, Puechmaille SJ, Novella-Fernandez R, Alberdi A, Manel S, et al (2019). Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(21), 10418-10423. Abstract.

Amorim F, Razgour O, Mata VA, Lopes S, Godinho R, Ibáñez C, Juste J, Rossiter SJ, Beja P, Rebelo H, et al (2019). Evolutionary history of the European free‐tailed bat, a tropical affinity species spanning across the Mediterranean Basin. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 58(1), 499-518. Full text.

Razgour O, Taggart JB, Manel S, Juste J, Ibáñez C, Rebelo H, Alberdi A, Jones G, Park K (2018). An integrated framework to identify wildlife populations under threat from climate change. Mol Ecol Resour, 18(1), 18-31. Abstract. Author URL.

Vasconcelos R, Razgour O, Tarroso P, Fasola M, Carranza S, Alves PC (2018). Combining molecular and landscape tools for targeting evolutionary processes in reserve design: an approach for islands. PLOS ONE, 13(7), e0200830-e0200830.

Razgour O, Persey M, Shamir U, Korine C (2018). The role of climate, water and biotic interactions in shaping biodiversity patterns in arid environments across spatial scales. Diversity and Distributions, 24(10), 1440-1452. Full text.

Razgour O, Rebelo H, Di Febbraro M, Russo D (2016). Painting maps with bats: Species distribution modelling in bat research and conservation. Hystrix, 27(1). Abstract.

Jones M, Bertola LD, Razgour O (2016). Predicting the effect of interspecific competition on habitat suitability for the endangered african wild dog under future climate and land cover changes. Hystrix, 27(1). Abstract.

Razgour O (2015). Beyond species distribution modeling: a landscape genetics approach to investigating range shifts under future climate change. Ecological Informatics, 30, 250-256. Abstract.

Alberdi A, Gilbert MTP, Razgour O, Aizpurua O, Aihartza J, Garin I (2015). Contrasting population-level responses to Pleistocene climatic oscillations in an alpine bat revealed by complete mitochondrial genomes and evolutionary history inference. Journal of Biogeography, 42(9), 1689-1700. Abstract.

Razgour O, Salicini I, Ibáñez C, Randi E, Juste J (2015). Unravelling the evolutionary history and future prospects of endemic species restricted to former glacial refugia. Molecular Ecology, 24(20), 5267-5283. Abstract.

Razgour O, Rebelo H, Puechmaille SJ, Juste J, Ibáñez C, Kiefer A, Burke T, Dawson DA, Jones G (2014). Scale-dependent effects of landscape variables on gene flow and population structure in bats. Diversity and Distributions, 20(10), 1173-1185. Abstract.

Hope PR, Bohmann K, Gilbert MTP, Zepeda-Mendoza ML, Razgour O, Jones G (2014). Second generation sequencing and morphological faecal analysis reveal unexpected foraging behaviour by Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in winter. Front Zool, 11

BACKGROUND: Temperate winters produce extreme energetic challenges for small insectivorous mammals. Some bat species inhabiting locations with mild temperate winters forage during brief inter-torpor normothermic periods of activity. However, the winter diet of bats in mild temperate locations is studied infrequently. Although microscopic analyses of faeces have traditionally been used to characterise bat diet, recently the coupling of PCR with second generation sequencing has offered the potential to further advance our understanding of animal dietary composition and foraging behaviour by allowing identification of a much greater proportion of prey items often with increased taxonomic resolution. We used morphological analysis and Illumina-based second generation sequencing to study the winter diet of Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri) and compared the results obtained from these two approaches. For the first time, we demonstrate the applicability of the Illumina MiSeq platform as a data generation source for bat dietary analyses. RESULTS: Faecal pellets collected from a hibernation site in southern England during two winters (December-March 2009-10 and 2010-11), indicated that M. nattereri forages throughout winter at least in a location with a mild winter climate. Through morphological analysis, arthropod fragments from seven taxonomic orders were identified. A high proportion of these was non-volant (67.9% of faecal pellets) and unexpectedly included many lepidopteran larvae. Molecular analysis identified 43 prey species from six taxonomic orders and confirmed the frequent presence of lepidopteran species that overwinter as larvae. CONCLUSIONS: the winter diet of M. nattereri is substantially different from other times of the year confirming that this species has a wide and adaptable dietary niche. Comparison of DNA derived from the prey to an extensive reference dataset of potential prey barcode sequences permitted fine scale taxonomic resolution of prey species. The high occurrence of non-volant prey suggests that gleaning allows prey capture at low ambient temperatures when the abundance of flying insects may be substantially reduced. Interesting questions arise as to how M. nattereri might successfully locate and capture some of the non-volant prey species encountered in its faeces. The consumption of lepidopteran larvae such as cutworms suggests that M. nattereri eats agricultural pest species.

Abstract. Author URL.

Razgour O, Juste J, Ibáñez C, Kiefer A, Rebelo H, Puechmaille SJ, Arlettaz R, Burke T, Dawson DA, Beaumont M, et al (2013). The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change. Ecol Lett, 16(10), 1258-1266. Abstract. Author URL.

Razgour O, Korine C, Saltz D (2011). Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use in desert bat communities?. Oecologia, 167(2), 493-502. Abstract.

Razgour O, Clare EL, Zeale MRK, Hanmer J, Schnell IB, Rasmussen M, Gilbert TP, Jones G (2011). High-throughput sequencing offers insight into mechanisms of resource partitioning in cryptic bat species. Ecol Evol, 1(4), 556-570.

Sympatric cryptic species, characterized by low morphological differentiation, pose a challenge to understanding the role of interspecific competition in structuring ecological communities. We used traditional (morphological) and novel molecular methods of diet analysis to study the diet of two cryptic bat species that are sympatric in southern England (Plecotus austriacus and P. auritus) (Fig. 1). Using Roche FLX 454 (Roche, Basel, CH) high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and uniquely tagged generic arthropod primers, we identified 142 prey Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs) in the diet of the cryptic bats, 60% of which were assigned to a likely species or genus. The findings from the molecular study supported the results of microscopic analyses in showing that the diets of both species were dominated by lepidopterans. However, HTS provided a sufficiently high resolution of prey identification to determine fine-scale differences in resource use. Although both bat species appeared to have a generalist diet, eared-moths from the family Noctuidae were the main prey consumed. Interspecific niche overlap was greater than expected by chance (O(jk) = 0.72, P < 0.001) due to overlap in the consumption of the more common prey species. Yet, habitat associations of nongeneralist prey species found in the diets corresponded to those of their respective bat predator (grasslands for P. austriacus, and woodland for P. auritus). Overlap in common dietary resource use combined with differential specialist prey habitat associations suggests that habitat partitioning is the primary mechanism of coexistence. The performance of HTS is discussed in relation to previous methods of molecular and morphological diet analysis. By enabling species-level identification of dietary components, the application of DNA sequencing to diet analysis allows a more comprehensive comparison of the diet of sympatric cryptic species, and therefore can be an important tool for determining fine-scale mechanisms of coexistence.

Abstract. Author URL.

Razgour O, Hanmer J, Jones G (2011). Using multi-scale modelling to predict habitat suitability for species of conservation concern: the grey long-eared bat as a case study. Biological Conservation, 144(12), 2922-2930.

Razgour O, Korine C, Saltz D (2010). Pond characteristics as determinants of species diversity and community composition in desert bats. Animal Conservation, 13(5), 505-513.

Chapters

Razgour O (2020). Plecotus austriacus Species Complex (P. austriacus, P. kolombatovici, P. gaisleri, P. teneriffae). In Hackländer K, Zachos F (Eds.) Handbook of the Mammals of Europe, Springer. Abstract. Full text.

Publications by year

In Press

Razgour O (In Press). Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition. Biological Reviews

Abstract. Full text.

Moraes B, Razgour O, Souza- Alves JP, Boubli J, Bezerra B (In Press). Habitat suitability for primate conservation in north-east Brazil. Oryx: journal of fauna and flora international

Horta P, Raposeira H, Vaz AS, António J, Juste J, Razgour O, Rebelo H (In Press). What about Adaptive Introgression? the Genomic Revolution is Shaping Scientific and Public Perception. Abstract.

2022

Bhalla IS, Razgour O, Rigal F, Whittaker RJ (2022). Landscape features drive insectivorous bat activity in Indian rice fields.

2021

Horta P, Raposeira H, Baños A, Ibáñez C, Razgour O, Rebelo H, Juste J (2021). Counteracting Forces of Introgressive Hybridization and Interspecific Competition Shape the Morphological Traits of Cryptic Lberian Eptesicus Bats.

Aizpurua O, Nyholm L, Morris E, Chaverri G, Montalvo LGH, Flores-Martinez JJ, Lin A, Razgour O, Gilbert MTP, Alberdi A, et al (2021). The role of the gut microbiota in the dietary niche expansion of fishing bats.

2020

White R, Razgour O (2020). Emerging zoonotic diseases originating in mammals: a systematic review of effects of anthropogenic land-use change. Mammal Review, 50, 336-352. Full text.

Fernandez RN, ez CI, Juste J, Clare B, Doncaster CP, Razgour O (2020). Trophic resource partitioning drives fine-scale coexistence in cryptic bat species.

Razgour O, Kasso M, Santos H, Juste J (2020). Up in the air: threats to Afromontane biodiversity from climate change and habitat loss revealed by modelling and landscape genetics of the Ethiopian Highlands long-eared bat.

2019

2018

2016

Razgour O, Rebelo H, Di Febbraro M, Russo D (2016). Painting maps with bats: Species distribution modelling in bat research and conservation. Hystrix, 27(1). Abstract.

2015

Razgour O (2015). Beyond species distribution modeling: a landscape genetics approach to investigating range shifts under future climate change. Ecological Informatics, 30, 250-256. Abstract.

2014

Abstract. Author URL.

2013

2011

Razgour O, Korine C, Saltz D (2011). Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use in desert bat communities?. Oecologia, 167(2), 493-502. Abstract.

Abstract. Author URL.

2010

Razgour O, Korine C, Saltz D (2010). Pond characteristics as determinants of species diversity and community composition in desert bats. Animal Conservation, 13(5), 505-513.

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External Engagement and Impact

Awards

2014 – John Marsden Medal for best UK doctoral thesis in Biology, The Linnean Society of London

2013 – Faculty of Science Commendation for outstanding PhD thesis, University of Bristol

2012 – Vincent Weir Scientific Award for contribution to bat conservation research

2012 – Student talk prize Population Genetics Group Meeting, Glasgow

2011 – Student talk prize Ecological Genetics Group Meeting, London

2008 – Merav Ziv Award, Ben-Gurion University

2007 – Frederick Siegmund Prize, Ben-Gurion University

Advice to Government, Parliament, devolved and English regional administrations, other national, international, regional or local agencies; advice to non-government organisations and to private practice

Trustee of the Bat Conservation Trust

Chair British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Special Interest Group

Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for UNEP EUROBATS Agreement

Natural England, Favourable Conservation Status reporting

EU Habitat Directive Article 17 reporting

Editorial responsibilities

Senior Editor Diversity and DIstributions

Associate Editor Journal of Applied Ecology

Editorial Board Mammal Review

Teaching

Modules

2021/22

BIO1336 - Ecology

Supervision / Group

Postgraduate researchers

Connor Butler 2018-2022 NERC DTP PhD University of Southampton: Factors affecting the distribution of cryptic anurans in Malaysian montane forests
Penelope Fialas Valuing ecosystem services provided by UK bats under climate change; GW4 PhD studentship
Pedro Horta 2017-2021 PhD, CIBIO, University of Porto: Hybridisation as adaptive process of cryptic bat species to climate change
Erik Omar Mata Guel 2019-2022 CONACyT funded PhD University of Southampton: Effects of climate change on tropical montane forests
Evie Morris 2017-2021 NERC DTP PhD, University of Southampton: How will greening the desert affect bats and the ecosystem services they provide?
Roberto Novella-Fernandez 2016-2020 PhD University of Southampton: Investigating the role of ecological interactions in shaping species distributions and range shifts under climate change
Cristian Pizzigalli 2021-2025 - FCT PhD scholarship, CIBIO, University of Porto
Peter Syme 2019-2023 NERC DTP PhD University of Southampton: Investigating the effects of environmental change on tropical montane bats

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Dr Orly Razgour

Senior Lecturer in Ecology

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Career

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Research

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Research networks

Research grants

Publications

Publications by category

Journal articles

Abstract:Diet diversification shapes broad-scale distribution patterns in European bats

Abstract:Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

Abstract:The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions

Abstract:The role of the gut microbiota in the dietary niche expansion of fishing bats

Abstract:Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

Abstract:An integrated framework to identify wildlife populations under threat from climate change.

Abstract:Painting maps with bats: Species distribution modelling in bat research and conservation

Abstract:Predicting the effect of interspecific competition on habitat suitability for the endangered african wild dog under future climate and land cover changes

Abstract:Beyond species distribution modeling: a landscape genetics approach to investigating range shifts under future climate change

Abstract:Contrasting population-level responses to Pleistocene climatic oscillations in an alpine bat revealed by complete mitochondrial genomes and evolutionary history inference

Abstract:Unravelling the evolutionary history and future prospects of endemic species restricted to former glacial refugia

Abstract:Scale-dependent effects of landscape variables on gene flow and population structure in bats

Abstract:Second generation sequencing and morphological faecal analysis reveal unexpected foraging behaviour by Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in winter.

Abstract:The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change.

Abstract:Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use in desert bat communities?

Abstract:High-throughput sequencing offers insight into mechanisms of resource partitioning in cryptic bat species.

Chapters

Abstract:Plecotus austriacus Species Complex (P. austriacus, P. kolombatovici, P. gaisleri, P. teneriffae)

Publications by year

In Press

Abstract:Diet diversification shapes broad-scale distribution patterns in European bats

Abstract:Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

Abstract:What about Adaptive Introgression? the Genomic Revolution is Shaping Scientific and Public Perception

2022

Abstract:The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions

2021

Abstract:The role of the gut microbiota in the dietary niche expansion of fishing bats

2020

Abstract:Plecotus austriacus Species Complex (P. austriacus, P. kolombatovici, P. gaisleri, P. teneriffae)

2019

Abstract:Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

2018

Abstract:An integrated framework to identify wildlife populations under threat from climate change.

2016

Abstract:Painting maps with bats: Species distribution modelling in bat research and conservation

Abstract:Predicting the effect of interspecific competition on habitat suitability for the endangered african wild dog under future climate and land cover changes

2015

Abstract:Beyond species distribution modeling: a landscape genetics approach to investigating range shifts under future climate change

Abstract:Contrasting population-level responses to Pleistocene climatic oscillations in an alpine bat revealed by complete mitochondrial genomes and evolutionary history inference

Abstract:Unravelling the evolutionary history and future prospects of endemic species restricted to former glacial refugia

2014

Abstract:Scale-dependent effects of landscape variables on gene flow and population structure in bats

Abstract:Second generation sequencing and morphological faecal analysis reveal unexpected foraging behaviour by Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in winter.

2013

Abstract:The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change.

2011

Abstract:Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use in desert bat communities?

Abstract:High-throughput sequencing offers insight into mechanisms of resource partitioning in cryptic bat species.

2010

External Engagement and Impact

Awards

Advice to Government, Parliament, devolved and English regional administrations, other national, international, regional or local agencies; advice to non-government organisations and to private practice

Editorial responsibilities

Teaching

Modules

2021/22

Supervision / Group

Postgraduate researchers

Abstract:
Diet diversification shapes broad-scale distribution patterns in European bats

Abstract:
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

Abstract:
The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions

Abstract:
The role of the gut microbiota in the dietary niche expansion of fishing bats

Abstract:
Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

Abstract:
An integrated framework to identify wildlife populations under threat from climate change.

Abstract:
Painting maps with bats: Species distribution modelling in bat research and conservation

Abstract:
Predicting the effect of interspecific competition on habitat suitability for the endangered african wild dog under future climate and land cover changes

Abstract:
Beyond species distribution modeling: a landscape genetics approach to investigating range shifts under future climate change

Abstract:
Contrasting population-level responses to Pleistocene climatic oscillations in an alpine bat revealed by complete mitochondrial genomes and evolutionary history inference

Abstract:
Unravelling the evolutionary history and future prospects of endemic species restricted to former glacial refugia

Abstract:
Scale-dependent effects of landscape variables on gene flow and population structure in bats

Abstract:
Second generation sequencing and morphological faecal analysis reveal unexpected foraging behaviour by Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in winter.

Abstract:
The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change.

Abstract:
Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use in desert bat communities?

Abstract:
High-throughput sequencing offers insight into mechanisms of resource partitioning in cryptic bat species.

Abstract:
Plecotus austriacus Species Complex (P. austriacus, P. kolombatovici, P. gaisleri, P. teneriffae)

Abstract:
Diet diversification shapes broad-scale distribution patterns in European bats

Abstract:
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

Abstract:
What about Adaptive Introgression? the Genomic Revolution is Shaping Scientific and Public Perception

Abstract:
The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions

Abstract:
The role of the gut microbiota in the dietary niche expansion of fishing bats

Abstract:
Plecotus austriacus Species Complex (P. austriacus, P. kolombatovici, P. gaisleri, P. teneriffae)

Abstract:
Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

Abstract:
An integrated framework to identify wildlife populations under threat from climate change.

Abstract:
Painting maps with bats: Species distribution modelling in bat research and conservation

Abstract:
Predicting the effect of interspecific competition on habitat suitability for the endangered african wild dog under future climate and land cover changes

Abstract:
Beyond species distribution modeling: a landscape genetics approach to investigating range shifts under future climate change

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Contrasting population-level responses to Pleistocene climatic oscillations in an alpine bat revealed by complete mitochondrial genomes and evolutionary history inference

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Unravelling the evolutionary history and future prospects of endemic species restricted to former glacial refugia

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Scale-dependent effects of landscape variables on gene flow and population structure in bats

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Second generation sequencing and morphological faecal analysis reveal unexpected foraging behaviour by Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in winter.

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The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change.

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Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use in desert bat communities?

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High-throughput sequencing offers insight into mechanisms of resource partitioning in cryptic bat species.