Dr. Ellie Dyer

Ellie's research interests concern topics in biodiversity and macroecology; specifically global-scale patterns in the abundance and distribution of species through space and time. Her current research explores the drivers of changes in the global abundance and distribution of insects, as part of the NERC-funded Global Insect Threat-Response Synthesis (GLiTRS) Project.

Prior to this her focus was on the spatial ecology of invasions, particularly global patterns of richness, range size and spread of alien birds. At the Zoological Society of London she co-created the Global Avian Invasions Atlas (GAVIA) Project – a unique global database containing over 28,000 records for more than 960 introduced bird species – and used this novel data set in her PhD to tackle key questions covering invasion biology.