Professor Richard Holland
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Contact info
Room: 531 Brambell
Email: r.holland@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1248 382344
Web: Bangor Animal Navigation Group Google Scholar Researchgate
My research and teaching interests fall broadly in the area of animal behaviour and sensory biology. I am the course co-ordinator for the Zoology with Animal Behaviour degree (C3D3) and teach on several animal behaviour focused modules, as well as ornithology. My research questions focus the cognitive processes and sensory mechanisms by which animals navigate and migrate. While my principle focus is at the level of the whole organism I also incorporate aspects of neurobiology, molecular biology, and physics to identify the environmental cues, sensory pathways and mechanisms used by animals to decide how, when and where to move. My work also operates in a comparative framework as I compare and contrast across species, taxa, age class, spatial scale and sensory mechanisms to reveal how natural selection has acted to shape navigation behaviour in different animal groups. New avenues my lab is exploring include the impact of artificial light and electromagnetic noise on navigation and spatial cognition, and the impact of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on bird behaviour.
Biography:
2021-2024, Director of Research, School of Natural Sciences
2020-current, Professor in Animal Behaviour
2017-2020, Senior Lecturer, Bangor University
2016-2017, Lecturer, Bangor University
2011-2016, Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast
2009-2010, Research scientist, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
2006-2008, Marie Curie Outgoing International fellow, Princeton University and University of Leeds
2002-2005, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Leeds
1999-2002, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Nebraska
1994-1998, DPhil, Oxford University
1990-1993, BSc (Hons), University of Nottingham
Research Area
- 2008
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Blind as a bat? The sensory basis of orientation and navigation at night
Holland, R., 2008, In the neurobiology of Umwelt: how animals perceive the world. Springer, t. 125-139Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
- 2007
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Evidence for a navigational map stretching across the continental US in a migratory songbird
Thorup, K., Bisson, I. A., Bowlin, M. S., Holland, R., Wingfield, J. C., Ramenofsky, M. & Wikelski, M., 13 Tach 2007, Yn: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 104, 46, t. 18115-18119 5 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The effect of familiarity on echolocation in the megachiropteran bat Rousettus aegyptiacus
Holland, R. & Waters, D. A., 1 Medi 2007, Yn: Behaviour. 144, 9, t. 1053-1064 12 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Orientation and navigation in bats: known unknowns or unknown unknowns?
Holland, R., Maw 2007, Yn: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61, 5, t. 653-660 8 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Where the Wild things Go
Holland, R., Thorup, K. & Wikelski, M., 2007, Yn: Biologist. 54, t. 2-7 6 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2006
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Navigation: Bat orientation using Earth's magnetic field
Holland, R., Thorup, K., Vonhof, M. J., Cochran, W. W. & Wikelski, M., 7 Rhag 2006, Yn: Nature. 444, 7120, t. 702 1 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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How and why do insects migrate?
Holland, R., Wikelski, M. & Wilcove, D. S., 11 Awst 2006, Yn: Science. 313, 5788, t. 794-796 3 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2005
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Sensory systems and spatial memory in the fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus
Holland, R., Winter, P. & Waters, D. A., Awst 2005, Yn: Ethology. 111, 8, t. 715-725 11 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Echolocation signals and pinnae movement in the fruitbat Rousettus aegyptiacus
Holland, R. & Waters, D. A., 2005, Yn: Acta Chiropterologica. 7, 1, t. 83-90 8 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2004
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Echolocation signal structure in the Megachiropteran bat Rousettus aegyptiacus Geoffroy 1810
Holland, R., Waters, D. A. & Rayner, J. M. V., Rhag 2004, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 207, 25, t. 4361-4369 9 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2003
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The role of visual landmarks in the avian familiar area map - Commentary
Holland, R., Meh 2003, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 206, 11, t. 1773-1778 6 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2000
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Short distance phase shifts revisited: tracking clock-shifted homing pigeons (Rock Dove Columba livia) close to the loft
Holland, R., Bonadonna, F., Dall'antonia, L., Benvenuti, S., De Perera, T. B. & Guilford, T., Ion 2000, Yn: Ibis. 142, 1, t. 111-118 8 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Tracking clock-shifted homing pigeons from familiar release sites
Bonadona, F., Holland, R., Dall'Antonia, L., Guilford, T. & Benvenuti, S., Ion 2000, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 203, 2, t. 207-212 6 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 1998
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Homing pigeons use olfactory cues for navigation in England
Guilford, T., Gagliardo, A., Chappell, J., Bonadonna, F., De Perera, T. B. & Holland, R., 1998, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 201, 6, t. 895-900 6 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 1997
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Further evidence for visual landmark involvement in the pigeon's familiar area map
Burt, T., Holland, R. & Guilford, T., Meh 1997, Yn: Animal Behaviour. 53, t. 1203-1209 7 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid