Faye Moyes

Dr Faye Moyes is a Researcher at the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, affiliated with the Centre for Biological Diversity. Her work focuses on biodiversity dynamics, particularly in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. She contributes to the BioTIME initiative, a global database tracking biodiversity time series, and has pioneered methods for analyzing temporal changes in alpha and beta diversity. Her research integrates biostatistics, community ecology, and conservation biology to address global biodiversity challenges.

Key research interests include functional rarity in marine fish, body size shifts in populations, and the impacts of invasive species on plant communities. She collaborates internationally on projects analyzing biodiversity trends across ecosystems, with a focus on long-term datasets. Notable contributions include refining metrics for biodiversity change and advancing frameworks for comparing taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity.

Publications highlight her work on biotic homogenization/differentiation dynamics, rarefaction/extrapolation methods, and the implications of body size trends for ecosystem stability. She has published in leading journals such as Science, Nature Communications, and Ecological Monographs.