Patrick Walsh

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5520
Email: Patrick.Walsh@ed.ac.uk

Street: Room 2.2105, JCMB
City: Kings Buildings
Post code: EH9 3FD

Biography

Background

1998-2003 MSci with Honours Zoology, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow

2003-2004 Research Assistant, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow

2004-2007 PhD, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow

2007-2010 Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews

2010-2012 Teaching Fellow, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

2012-2016 Lecturer, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

2016-Present Senior Lecturer, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

2017-Present Director of Teaching, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Teaching & PhD supervision

Undergraduate teaching

Evolution in Action (second year) - Course organiser

Origin and Diversity of Life (first year)

Biology, Ecology and Environment (first year) - Course Organiser

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Cammy Beyts 2017 - Present

Ashley Buchan (Co-supervisor) 2014 - Present

Past PhD students supervised

Thomas Godfrey (Co-supervisor) 2011 - 2017

A focus of my work is attempting to understand why animals do what they do, particularly in relation to animals' responses to ecological conditions. I am currently working in the field of animal behavioural syndromes, so called "animal personalities" using amphibians as a model systems. I have previous investigated, and remain interested, in understanding which factors play a role in the timing and duration of metamorphosis, including potential responses of British amphibians to a changing climate.

Publications

The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior: Effect of competition on variation in tadpole behavior (12 pages) 7 Jan 2023 In: Behavioral Ecology, vol. 34, pp. 210-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac109
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Exploring links between personality traits and their social and non-social environments in wild poison frogs (14 pages) 4 Jul 2022 In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03202-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Repeatable territorial aggression in a neotropical poison frog (7 pages) 27 Apr 2022 In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.881387
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Turning into frogs: asymmetry in forelimb emergence and escape direction in metamorphosing anurans: Lateralised forelimb emergence and turning (13 pages) 26 Sep 2016 In: Laterality, pp. 1-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2016.1235175
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Factors affecting the overwintering of tadpoles in a temperate amphibian Mar 2016 In: Journal of Zoology, vol. 298, pp. 183–190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12296
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Image analysis of weaverbird nests reveals signature weave textures 17 Jun 2015 In: Royal Society Open Science, vol. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150074
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Why do frog and toad forelimbs suddenly (but asynchronously) appear every time metamorphosis is near? (7 pages) 1 Jun 2015 In: Functional Ecology, vol. 29, pp. 816-822
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12386
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Image analysis of weaverbird nests reveals signature weave patterns 2015
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Abstract (Published)
Faecal avoidance and selective foraging: do wild mice have the luxury to avoid faeces? (8 pages) 30 Sep 2013 In: Animal Behaviour, vol. 86, pp. 559-566
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.06.011
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Individuality in nest building: Do Southern Masked weaver (Ploceus velatus) males vary in their nest-building behaviour? (6 pages) Sep 2011 In: Behavioural Processes, vol. 88, pp. 1-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2011.06.011
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Repeatability of nest morphology in African weaver birds (3 pages) 23 Apr 2010 In: Biology letters, vol. 6, pp. 149-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0664
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Anuran life history plasticity: Variable practice in determining the end-point of larval development (11 pages) 2010 In: Amphibia-Reptilia, vol. 31, pp. 157-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853810791069038
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Literature review (Published)
The paradoxical frog Pseudis paradoxa: larval anatomical characteristics, including gonadal maturation (10 pages) Jan 2009 In: The Herpetological Journal , vol. 19, pp. 1-10
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
The paradoxical frog Pseudis paradoxa: larval habitat, growth and metamorphosis (9 pages) Jan 2009 In: The Herpetological Journal , vol. 19, pp. 11-19
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Larval over-wintering: plasticity in the timing of life-history events in the common frog (8 pages) Dec 2008 In: Journal of Zoology, vol. 276, pp. 394-401
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00503.x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Predation-induced plasticity in metamorphic duration in Xenopus laevis (7 pages) Aug 2008 In: Functional Ecology, vol. 22, pp. 699-705
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01429.x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Temperature-mediated morphology changes during metamorphic climax in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis (6 pages) May 2008 In: Journal of Thermal Biology, vol. 33, pp. 244-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2008.02.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Nest building by birds (3 pages) 8 Apr 2008 In: Current Biology, vol. 18, pp. R271-R273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.01.020
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published)
Plasticity of the duration of metamorphosis in the African clawed toad (7 pages) Feb 2008 In: Journal of Zoology, vol. 274, pp. 143-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00367.x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Asymmetric larval competition between two species of neotropical foam-nesting frogs: Leptodactylus fuscus and Engystomops pustulosus (9 pages) 2008 In: Journal of Natural History, vol. 42, pp. 2151-2159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930802140178
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)

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