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Trophic cascades in a changing environment: elevated CO 2 and multi-trophic interactions

Trophic cascades in a changing environment: elevated CO 2 and multi-trophic interactions. William Hentley. Supervisors. Rosie Hails & Adam Vanbergen. Hefin Jones. Scott Johnson. Gilles San Martin. My PhD. Dealing with multiple supervisors Experiments Challenges

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Trophic cascades in a changing environment: elevated CO 2 and multi-trophic interactions

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  1. Trophic cascades in a changing environment:elevated CO2 and multi-trophic interactions William Hentley Supervisors Rosie Hails & Adam Vanbergen Hefin Jones Scott Johnson Gilles San Martin

  2. My PhD • Dealing with multiple supervisors • Experiments Challenges • Elevated CO2 experiment • The drought experiment • Opportunities • Future work - The thesis

  3. Dealing with supervisors • Avoid this combination of supervisors • Welsh • A director of Science • Alpha male • At the other side of the world.

  4. Dealing with supervisors Managing their time

  5. Dealing with supervisors One supervisor giveth... ...the other taketh away

  6. Challenges • Elevated CO2 experiment • A drought experiment

  7. The Grodome

  8. Plant disease Lack of reliability resulted in years of neglect and under use. Aphids that shouldn’t be there…and the wrong species

  9. Ask for help! • Contacted other institutions • Found a solution • Pestered the management • Helped secure £60K • Problem solved…

  10. How about a drought experiment?

  11. The drought-a-tron

  12. “Everyone in Ecology knows each other, so don’t piss anyone off!” Rosie Hails, 2013

  13. Opportunities

  14. Opportunities

  15. The thesis Procrastination Search – ‘why procrastinators procrastinate’

  16. Procrastination

  17. Procrastination

  18. Acknowledgements Adam Vanbergen, Hefin Jones, Rosie Hails, Scott Johnson, Caroline Schultz, Scott McKenzie, Joe Rowland, Leah Cuthbertson, Louise Barwell, Rory O’Connor, Gary Powney, Tom August, Phil Martin, Helen Hicks, Sarah McCormack, Miles Nunn, Ned Hewit, Denise Pallet, Helen Roy, Helen Hesketh, Karsten Schonrogge, Phil White, Caroline Wills-Wright, Carolyn Mitchell, Lindsay McMenemy, Alison Dobson, Sheena Lamond, Jim McNicol, Simon Leather, Richard Harrington, Adam Butler, Elma Lahive, Mum, Dan Hentley, Emily Shaw, Sarah Hulmes, Lucy Hulmes, Julia Ferrari, Ali Karley, Ruth Wade, Andrew Beckerman, Sarah Facey, Chris Lesley, Timo Blake, Ian Parker, Alan Bloomfield, Alan Warwick, Geoff Wicks, Jim Jones, Ron Stevenson, Melanie Brien, Rob Thomas, Mike Dunbar, Jason Baverstock, Keith Byrom, Morag McCracken, Emily Taylor, Shabbir Ahmed, Trish Saunders, Marc Botham, David Roy, Alex Stevenson, Chris van derGast, Mark Jervis, Joanne Lello, Matt Dray, Don O’Bear, Tom Crowther, Steven Thomas, Catlin Pearson, James Ryalls, James Vafidis, Tiffany Aslam, Emma Sayer, Matt Heard

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