| Position in department | UG admissions for Eco, MB, BS degrees, Web Officer |
| Staff position | Lecturer |
| E-mail | adumb (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone | 2539 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Fax | 2592 |
| Room | 4.18 |
| Biography | 2010 - - Lecturer (University of Essex)
2009 - 2010 - Visiting Research Fellow (Radboud University Nijmegen)
2007 - 2009 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of York)
2002 - 2006 - Ph.D. (University of York)
2001 - 2002 - M.Sc. (University of Wales, Bangor)
1998 - 2001 - B.Sc. hons (University of Wales, Bangor) |
| Research interests |
- Community ecology (focus on microbial systems)
- Theoretical ecology (focus on models of biodiversity)
- Molecular ecology (focus on next generation sequencing)
- Macroecology (focus on examining patterns of biodiversity in microbial systems)
- Spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity
- Biodiversity-Ecosystem service/function relationships
- Species abundance distributions and species area relationships
- Biodiversity models (i.e. niche and neutral theories)
- Next generation sequencing technology and bioinformatics in ecological research
- Metagenetics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics
- Ecoinformatics
- Soil biodiversity and function
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and other symbiotic systems
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| Publications | Link to publications for Alex Dumbrell |