Professor Patrick Doncaster is an academic faculty member at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, within the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences. His research spans population ecology, conservation management of forest and freshwater lake ecosystems, and development of conservation technology and data analysis tools. BSc in Environmental Sciences (1st-class) from University of East Anglia D.Phil. in Zoology from University of Oxford Research interests include: Population ecology Forest biodiversity Human-predator-shared prey interactions Acoustic ecology Open-source conservation technology Early warning signals for ecosystem tipping points Climate change mitigation mechanisms Robust evidence-based analysis methods His publications from 2023-2025 demonstrate expertise in statistical ecology, conservation technology, and ecosystem dynamics across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. He develops tools for ANOVA analysis, radio-tracking data, and evidence-based conservation. Academic contributions include: Active projects on lake ecosystem recovery pathways Completed NERC and PTES-funded field studies Methods development for statistical power and ecological modeling Interdisciplinary collaborations across environmental science and technology Teaching materials on statistics and evolutionary genetics Leadership in the Ecology and Evolution Centre and Institute for Life Sciences He supervises PhD students and maintains active research groups focused on ecological theory and conservation practice.







