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Dr. Natalie Pilakouta is a Lecturer in Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution at the University of St Andrews' School of Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how climate change impacts animal reproduction, parental care strategies, and thermal adaptation. She leads projects investigating the effects of environmental stressors like heatwaves and chronic temperature changes on ecological and evolutionary processes.
Her work integrates experimental approaches with meta-analytic frameworks to address questions about inbreeding depression mitigation via parental care, non-additive stress responses, and evolutionary predictability under thermal gradients. Key collaborations include studies on geothermal sticklebacks and ectotherm social behavior under warming conditions.
- Current Projects: Royal Society-funded research on parental care under climate change
- PhD Supervision: Amber Chatten & Jakob Wiil
- Key Themes: Climate Change Biology, Thermal Adaptation, Evolutionary Ecology
Publications span high-impact journals like Ecology Letters and Proceedings of the Royal Society B, with datasets archived in Dryad and Zenodo. Her research contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to climate action and life on land/underwater.
