Dr Michael Webster

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 461690

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

• Helen Spence-Jones
• Karina Vanadzina
• Dagmar Der Weduwen

Selected publications

• 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

• How STRANGE are your study animals?

  Webster, M. M. & Rutz, C., 18 Jun 2020, In : Nature. 582, p. 337-340 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Social recognition and social attraction in group-living fishes

  Ward, A. J. W., Kent, M. I. A. & Webster, M. M., 2 Feb 2020, In : Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8, 16 p., 15.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• A four-questions perspective on public information use in sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)

  Webster, M. M., Chouinard-Thuly, L., Herczeg, G., Kitano, J., Riley, R. J., Rogers, S., Shapiro, M. D., Shikano, T. & Laland, K. N., 20 Feb 2019, In : Royal Society Open Science. 6, 2, 24 p., 181735.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Mid-sized groups perform best in a collective decision task in sticklebacks

  Ward, A. J. W. & Webster, M. M., 2 Oct 2019, In : Biology Letters. 15, 10, 20190335.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• No experimental evidence of stress-induced hyperthermia in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

  Jones, N. A. R., Mendo, T., Broell, F. & Webster, M. M., 24 Jan 2019, In : Journal of Experimental Biology. 222, 2, 8 p., jeb.192971.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: private and social information in fish

  Borcherding, J., Webster, M. M. & Heubel, K., 2 Dec 2019, In : Ecology and Evolution. Early View, 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Cohesion, order and information flow in the collective motion of mixed-species shoals

  Ward, A., Schaerf, T., Burns, A., Lizier, J., Crosato, E., Prokopenko, M. & Webster, M. M., 12 Dec 2018, In : Royal Society Open Science. 5, 12, 14 p., 181132.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Consistency of fish?shoal social network structure under laboratory conditions

  Gaffney, K. A. & Webster, M. M., 6 Apr 2018, In : Journal of Fish Biology. Early View, 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Experience shapes social information use in foraging fish

  Webster, M. M. & Laland, K. N., Dec 2018, In : Animal Behaviour. 146, p. 63-70

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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