Dr Chris Lavers
	Associate Professor
	Tel:	0115 95 15444
	Fax:	0115 95 15249
	Email:	chris.lavers@nottingham.ac.uk
	Room:	B23
Research Theme: Environmental and Geomorphological Sciences
Research and Teaching Interests
Research interests include: evolution, ecology and global biogeography of metabolism in vertebrates; coarse-scale patterns of biodiversity; ecology of saltmarsh, peatland and woodland birds; ecology of woodland beetles; deadwood ecology and dendrochronology of oaks in Sherwood Forest; ancient Greek and Roman and Medieval Asian natural history writing. Teaching responsibilities Earth & Environmental Dynamics Study Skills Patterns of Life Scale and diversity in the Canary Islands
Selected Recent Publications:
Lavers, C. and Knapp, M. (2008). On the origin of khutu. Archives of Natural History, 35(2). Field, R., O’Brien, E.M. and Lavers, C. (2007). Global models for predicting woody plant richness from climate: reply. Ecology, 88, 259-62. Lavers, C. and Field, R. (2006). A resource-based conceptual model of plant diversity that reassesses causality in the productivity–diversity relationship. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 213–224. Lavers, C., McCullagh, M. and Fuller, R. (2005). Combining archive territory mapping data and aerial photography to investigate bird–habitat relationships: a case study from the Lincolnshire coast. Bird Study, 52, pp. 314-322. Kotler, D., Watkins, C. and Lavers, C. (2005) The transformation of Sherwood Forest in the twentieth century: The role of private estate forestry. Rural History, 16, 95–110. Howard, R., Lavers, C. and Watkins, C. (2004). Dendrochronology and ancient oak trees: preliminary results from Sherwood Forest, UK, and the Val di Vara, Italy. Archeologia Postmedievale, 6, 35–47.