Patricia Monaghan is Regius Professor of Zoology in the Institute of

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at the

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Biography

Monaghan was educated at Durham University where her PhD investigated the utilisation of urban resources by the

herring gull Herring gull is a common name for several birds in the genus '' Larus'', all formerly treated as a single species. Three species are still combined in some taxonomies: * American herring gull (''Larus smithsonianus'') - North America * European ...

''Larus arqentatus''. She delivered the

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for ASAB in 2006 and the Witherby Memorial Lecture for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) in 2004. In 2011 she was appointed a member of the

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(MAE).

Research

Monaghan's research interests are in

behavioural ecology Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures. Behavioral ecology emerged from ethology after Niko Tinbergen outlined four questions to address when ...

, avian ecology,

ornithology Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

molecular ecology Molecular ecology is a field of evolutionary biology that is concerned with applying molecular population genetics, molecular phylogenetics, and more recently genomics to traditional ecological questions (e.g., species diagnosis, conservation and ...

and senescence. She has served as president of Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) since 2017.

Awards and honours

*1997:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This socie ...

(FRSE) *2002: Corresponding

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of the American Ornithologists Union *2017: Godman-Salvin Medal by the British Ornithologists' Union *2017:

Frink Medal The Frink Medal for British Zoologists is awarded by the Zoological Society of London "For significant and original contributions by a professional zoologist to the development of zoology." It consists of a bronze plaque (76 by 83 millimetres), de ...

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*2015: ASAB Medal

References

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Official biography
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