Dr Michael Webster

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1690

Email

mmw1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I’m interested in the behaviour of group-living animals, including social foraging, competition, information diffusion and predator-prey dynamics. What are the benefits and costs of grouping? How do groups form and function? How does the behaviour of individuals shape that of the group, and how does being in a group change the behaviour of its individual members?

PhD supervision

• Dagmar Der Weduwen
• Alice Veiros

Selected publications

• Open access

  False alarms and information transmission in grouping animals

  Gray, L. & Webster, M. M., 18 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Biological Reviews. Early View, 16 p.

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

• Open access

  Why prey animals often see threats where there are none – and how it costs them

  Gray, L. & Webster, M., 2 Mar 2023, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  Sampling biases and reproducibility: experimental design decisions affect behavioural responses in hermit crabs

  Hills, A. & Webster, M. M., 1 Dec 2022, In: Animal Behaviour. 194, p. 101-110 10 p.

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

• Open access

  Ecological and behavioural drivers of offspring size in marine teleost fishes

  Vanadzina, K., Phillips, A., Martins, B., Laland, K. N., Webster, M. M. & Sheard, C., Dec 2021, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30, 12, p. 2407-2419 13 p.

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

• Ethology adopts the STRANGE framework for animal behaviour research, to improve reporting standards

  Rutz, C. & Webster, M. M., Feb 2021, In: Ethology. 127, 2, p. 99-101

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

• Open access

  Individual behavioural traits not social context affects learning about novel objects in archerfish

  Jones, N. A. R., Spence-Jones, H. C., Webster, M. & Rendell, L. E., 22 Feb 2021, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 75, 11 p., 58.

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

• Open access

  Passive traps and sampling bias: social effects and personality affect trap-entry by sticklebacks

  Kressler, M., Gerlam, A., Spence-Jones, H. C. & Webster, M. M., 19 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ethology. Early View, 13148.

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

• Open access

  Physical enrichment research for captive fish: time to focus on the DETAILS

  Jones, N. A. R., Webster, M. M. & Salvanes, A. G. V., 20 Sep 2021, In: Journal of Fish Biology. 99, 3, p. 704-725 22 p., 14773.

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

• Open access

  Short range hunters: exploring the function and constraints of water shooting in dwarf gouramis

  Jones, N. A. R., Klump, B., Abaurrea, T., Harrower, S., Marr, C., Scott, L., Rendell, L. & Webster, M., Dec 2021, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 224, 24, 9 p., 243477.

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

• Open access

  Cognitive styles: speed–accuracy trade-offs underlie individual differences in archerfish

  Jones, N. A. R., Webster, M., Newport, C., Templeton, C. N., Schuster, S. & Rendell, L., Feb 2020, In: Animal Behaviour. 160, p. 1-14 14 p.

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

 

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