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
- Erthygl adolygu › Ymchwil › Adolygwyd gan gymheiriaid
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Over 50 years of behavioural evidence on the magnetic sense in animals: what has been learnt and how?
Schneider, W., Holland, R. & Lindecke, O., Maw 2023, Yn: The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 232, 2, t. 269-278 10 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl adolygu › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Principles and patterns of bat movements: From aerodynamics to ecology
Voigt, C. C., Frick, W., Holland, R., Holdereid, M., Kerth, G., Mello, M., Plowright, R., Swartz, S. & Yovel, Y., Medi 2017, Yn: Quarterly Review of Biology. 92, 3, t. 267-287 20 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl adolygu › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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True navigation in birds: from quantum physics to global migration
Holland, R., Mai 2014, Yn: Journal of Zoology. 293, 1, t. 1-15Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl adolygu › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Nature’s GPS: how animals use the natural world to perform extraordinary feats of navigation
Holland, R., 30 Rhag 2021, The Conversation.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
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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
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Orientation and Navigation in Bats
Holland, R., 2010, Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour. Academic Press, Cyfrol 2. t. 177-185 9 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
- Erthygl › Ymchwil › Adolygwyd gan gymheiriaid
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A comparison of machine-learning assisted optical and thermal camera systems for beehive activity counting
Morton Williams, S., Bariselli, S., Palego, C., Holland, R. & Cross, P., 1 Rhag 2022, Yn: Smart Agricultural Technology. 2, 100038.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology
Karwinkel, T., Peter, A., Holland, R., Thorup, K., Bairlein, F. & Schmaljohann, H., 17 Ebr 2024, (E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu) Yn: Biological Reviews.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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A functional role of the sky’s polarization pattern for orientation in the greater mouse-eared bat
Greif, S., Borissov, I., Yovel, Y. & Holland, R., 2014, Yn: Nature Communications. 5, 4488.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird
Packmor, F., Kishkinev, D., Bittermann, F., Kofler, B., Machowetz, C., Zechmeister, T., Zawadzki, L., Guilford, T. & Holland, R., Tach 2021, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 224, 22, 10 t., 243337.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid