Information about me

My current job
Education
Employment
Research
Publications

My current job

I am a lecturer in Environmental Biology at Bath Spa University College, U.K. I joined the Department of Environmental Biology in September, 2003 and lecture on a wide range of ecological topics including - animal behaviur, ecology, genetics, agriculture and physiology.

Education

I carried out my BSc and PhD at the University of Wales, College Cardiff. My first degree was in Zoology and my PhD thesis was on the foraging behaviour of blue tits.

Employment

Previous research jobs have included

Time perception and processing in animals at the University of Cambridge
Concept formation in animals at the University of Cambridge.
Ecology of arable wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus at the University of Oxford.
Hoarding in marsh tits Parus palustris at the University of Oxford.
Technical support for Statview with Cherwell Scientific Publishing, Oxford

Research

At the moment I am concentrating on small mammal research and the effect of human management. In particular I am interested in arable farming and how it affects small mammal distribution and abundance. I am also looking at the effect of woodland management (such as coppicing) on small mammal populations.

I am always happy to discuss collaborative projects with researchers anywhere in the world. If you think this might be appropriate for you then please email me.

Publications

Below are a selection of my publications.

Todd, I.A. and Cowie, R.J. (1990): Measuring the risk of predation in an energetic currency: field experiments with foraging blue tits, Parus caeruleus. Animal Behaviour 40 p112-117.
Todd, I.A. and Mackintosh, N.J. (1990): Evidence for perceptual learning in pigeons' recognition memory for pictures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 42B p385-400.
Todd, I.A. (1991): A suite of Macintosh programs for use in radio-telemetry studies. Poster presented at the 4th European International Conference on Wildlife Telemetry.
Todd, I. A. (1992): Wildtrak. Non parametric home range analysis for Macintosh computers. 93 page manual + computer software
Kacelnik, A. and Todd, I.A. (1992): Psychological mechanisms and the Marginal Value Theorem: effect of variability in travel time on patch exploitation. Animal Behaviour 42 p313-322.
Macdonald, D.W., Tew, T.E. and Todd, I.A. (1993): The Arable Mouse: Lessons from the Wood Mouse for Wildlife on Farmland. NERC News 26 (July 1993) p16-19.
Todd, I.A. and Kacelnik, A. (1993): Psychological mechanisms and the Marginal Value Theorem: dynamics of scalar memory for travel time. Animal Behaviour 46 p765-775
Tew, T.E., Todd, I.A. and Macdonald, D.W. (1994): Field Margins and Small Mammals. BCPC Monograph No 58: Field Margins: Integrating Agriculture and Conservation. p85-93
Tew, T.E., Todd, I.A. and Macdonald, D.W. (1994): The effects of trap spacing on sampling small mammal populations. Journal of Zoology 233 p340-344
Tew, T.E., Todd, I.A. and Macdonald, D.W. (1994): Temporal changes in olfactory preference in murid rodents revealed by live- trapping. Journal of Mammalogy 75 p750-756
Brown, E.D., Macdonald, D.W., Tew, T.E. and Todd, I.A. (1994): Rhythmicity of egg production by Heligmosomoides polygyrus in wild wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus Journal of Helminthology 68 p105-108
Brown, E.D., Macdonald, D.W., Tew, T.E. and Todd, I.A. (1994): Apodemus sylvaticus infected with Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) in an arable ecosystem: epidemiology and effects of infection on the movements of male mice. Journal of Zoology 234 p623-640
Todd, I.A., Tew, T.E and Macdonald, D.W. (in press): Comparisons between radio-tracking and trap-derived estimates of home range parameters. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Wildlife Telemetry