Dr Graeme Shannon

Lecturer in Zoology (Behaviour) / Director of Impact and Engagement

Contact info

Location: 304 Environment Centre Wales

Tel: 01248 382318

Website: www.wildliferesearch.co.uk

 

My research and teaching centres on the fields of animal behaviour, ecology and conservation, with particular focus on the effects of human activities on wildlife, animal cognition and the behavioural ecology of large herbivores. I have studied African elephants over the past two decades, addressing questions on foraging and movement ecology as well as investigating the detailed social and ecological knowledge of elephant family groups and the role of the matriarch. The research that I have conducted on elephant cognition has involved extensive use of acoustic playbacks, whereby animal vocalisations are broadcast to study the responses of elephants to social and ecological threats. More recently, I have applied these playback techniques to understand the effects of anthropogenic noise - a growing source of environmental disturbance - on animal behavior and wildlife ecology. I am also interested in the role that large herbivores play in ecosystem function and structure in natural and human altered habitats. This has led to the development of a project exploring fallow deer behaviour and habitat utilisation in the Elwy Valley, North Wales.

  1. 2023
  2. Overlap not Gap: conceptualising natural language and its co-existence with non-human communication and cognition using Prototype Theory.

    Author: Amphaeris, J., 20 Sept 2023

    Supervisor: Tenbrink, T. (Supervisor) & Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

  3. Exploring novel techniques to quantify habitat use, diet, and ecological effects of deer, with a focus on fallow deer (Dama dama) in the Elwy Valley, North Wales

    Author: Gresham, A., 11 Aug 2023

    Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor), Healey, J. (Supervisor), Eichhorn, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Creer, S. (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

  4. Mind the Monkeys: Road Ecology of the Zanzibar Red Colobus

    Author: Skinner, H., 7 Jun 2023

    Supervisor: Georgiev, A. (Supervisor), Healey, J. (Supervisor), Shannon, G. (Supervisor) & Davenport, T. R. B. (External person) (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Masters by Research

  5. Activity Overlap and Risk of Mycobacterium bovis Transmission Between Wild European Mammals

    Author: Justus, W., 6 Mar 2023

    Supervisor: Valle, S. (Supervisor) & Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Masters by Research

  6. Assessing landscape-scale patterns of activity and habitat-use by fallow deer (Dama dama) in the Elwy Valley region of North Wales, UK

    Author: Barton, O., 6 Mar 2023

    Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor), Cordes, L. (Supervisor) & Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

  7. 2022
  8. A long-term temporal comparison of ecological predictors on relative elephant presence within a forested environment

    Author: Keeble, D., 22 Nov 2022

    Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor), Georgiev, A. (Supervisor), Chapman, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Sarkar, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Masters by Research

  9. Detection of an invasive, semi-aquatic mammal: development of an environmental DNA assay and comparison to a conventional method

    Author: Pugh, B., 24 Oct 2022

    Supervisor: Creer, S. (Supervisor) & Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Masters by Research

  10. 2021
  11. Interspecific Differences in Treefrog Response to Artificial Light at Night and Spectral Manipulation

    Author: Harcourt, A., 26 May 2021

    Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Masters by Research

  12. Rensch’s Rule and the Drivers of Sexual Dimorphism in Ungulates

    Author: Roylance-Casson, E., 9 Mar 2021

    Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

    Student thesis: Masters by Research

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