Prof Graeme Ruxton

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 4825

Email

graeme.ruxton@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I am interested in the evolutionary ecology of sensory interactions between species. Examples include camouflage in the natural world, signalling between predators and their prey and how plants can communicate with pollinators and seed dispersers.

PhD supervision

• Chon I Kam

Selected publications

• Open access

  Advanced circular statistics in biology: multiple factors, interactions and repeated measures

  Landler, L., Ruxton, G. D. & Malkemper, E. P., 3 Mar 2026, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 17, 3, p. 778-789 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Evolutionary influences of sexual signalling on protective colouring

  Wainwright, J. B., Ruxton, G. D. & Bailey, N. W., Feb 2026, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 41, 2, p. 130-138 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Pink Cricket Club: dramatic color change in a neotropical leaf-masquerading katylid (Arota festae, Griffini, 1896)

  Wainwright, J. B., Rowe, Z. W., Greenwell, M. P., Cannon, P. G., Bailey, N. W. & Ruxton, G. D., Mar 2026, In: Ecology. 107, 3, p. 1-5 5 p., e70333.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A model of optimal digestive strategy in infrequently-feeding snakes

  Wood, M. E. & Ruxton, G. D., 15 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Ecology. Online First, 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Can predation pressure help explain the curious evolution of ballistic seed dispersal?

  Sharpe, C. R. & Ruxton, G. D., 13 Mar 2025, In: Ecology and Evolution. 15, 3, 9 p., e71081.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Ecology needs a causal overhaul

  Franks, D. W., Ruxton, G. D. & Sherratt, T., 1 Oct 2025, In: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 100, 5, p. 1950-1969

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Exploring the importance of stochasticity to hybrid equilibria in a discrete signaling game

  Chisausky, J., Zollman, K. & Ruxton, G. D., Feb 2025, In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 38, 2, p. 157-166

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Functional and evolutionary synergy of trait components can explain the existence of leaf masquerade in katydids

  Wainwright, J. B., Rolfe, C. E. J., Ruxton, G. D. & Bailey, N. W., 3 Nov 2025, In: PLoS Biology. 23, 11, p. 1-16 16 p., e3003468.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Non-visual crypsis: an updated review of current understanding

  Day-Dell’Olio, I., Neirink, S., McKenna, R. K. & Ruxton, G. D., 22 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Ecology. Online first

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Saltatory search in virtual prey does not affect predation risk from fish predators

  Johnston-Barrett, D., Ruxton, G. D. & Ioannou, C. C., 1 Apr 2025, In: Animal Behaviour. 222, 9 p., 123049.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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