I am an ecologist interested in using network theory to understand how environmental change impacts the structure and function of ecosystems.

For more information on my work please visit Google scholar, Mendeley, SCOPUS or ORCID 0000-0001-5030-3470. Follow me on @Fred_Windsor

Brief CV

• 2019-present: Postdoctoral Research Associate "Developing network ecology to understand and secure resilient food systems" with Prof Darren Evans, Prof Paulo Roberto Guimarães Junior and Prof Mariano Devoto (Royal Society Challenge-led Grant, Newcastle University)
• 2015-2019: PhD "The transfer and ecology effects of xenobiotic pollutants in freshwater ecosystems" with Prof Steve Ormerod and Prof Charles Tyler (Cardiff University)
• 2014-2015: River Environments and their Management MSc (University of Birmingham)
• 2011-2014: Geography BSc (University of Birmingham)

External activities

• Grants Committee of the British Ecological Society (2020-present)
• Editorial Advisory Panel for Global Change Biology (2020-present)
• Early Career Representative for the European Federation of Freshwater Sciences (2016-present)
• Early Career Committee Member of the Cardiff University Water Research Institute (2016-2018)

Membership of Learned Societies

• Member of the British Ecological Society
• Member of the Royal Society of Biology
• Member of the Royal Society of Entomology
• Member of the Freshwater Biological Association

Research summary

Using concepts from community, ecosystem and network ecology, my research focuses on understanding how and why ecosystems respond to environmental change. Using primary and secondary empirical data from experiments and field sampling, as well as simulated data from theoretical models, I develop and implement analyses to investigate ecological networks from local to global scales.

Grants and awards

• GW4 DTP Studentship (2015-2019)
  
• British Hydrological Society Scholarship (2014-2015)
• WA Cadbury Award (2014)
  

I currently contribute towards the following undergraduate modules: 

• BIO3040 Current Research in Ecology 
• BIO2032 Residential Field Course (Kielder Forest)

• Higino G, Windsor FM, Banville F, Dansereau G, Forero Muñoz NR, Poisot T. Mismatch between IUCN range maps and species interactions data illustrated using the Serengeti food web. EcoEvoRxiv 2022, 1-14.
• Tavella J, Windsor FM, Rother DC, Evans DM, Guimarães Jr PR, Palacios TP, Lois M, Devoto M. Using motifs in ecological networks to identify the role of plants in crop margins for multiple agriculture functions. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2022, 331, 107912.
• Pinheiro JPS, Windsor FM, Wilson R, Tyler CR. Global variation in freshwater physicochemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife. Biological Reviews 2021, epub ahead of print.
• Windsor FM, Docherty CL, Brekenfeld N, Tojo K, Krause S, Milner AM. Hydrological, physicochemical and metabolic signatures in groundwater and snowmelt streams in the Japanese Alps. Journal of Hydrology 2021, (ePub ahead of Print).
• Windsor FM, Tavella J, Rother DC, Raimundo RLG, Devoto M, Guimarães Jr PR, Evans DM. Identifying plant mixes for multiple ecosystem service provision in agricultural systems using ecological networks. Journal of Applied Ecology 2021, 58(12), 2770-2782.
• Windsor FM, Tavella J, Rother DC, Raimundo RLG, Devoto M, Guimarães Jr PR, Evans DM. Identifying plant mixes for multiple ecosystem service provision in agricultural systems using ecological networks. Journal of Applied Ecology 2021, epub ahead of print.
• Cuff JP, Windsor FM, Gilmartin EC, Boddy L, Jones TH. Influence of European Beech (Fagales: Fagaceae) Rot Hole Habitat Characteristics on Invertebrate Community Structure and Diversity. Journal of Insect Science 2021, 21(5), 7.
• Cuff JP, Windsor FM, Tercel MPTG, Kitson JJN, Evans DM. Overcoming the pitfalls of merging dietary metabarcoding into ecological networks. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2021, 13(3), 545-559.
• Windsor FM, Pereira MG, Morrissey CA, Tyler CR, Ormerod SJ. Environment and food web structure interact to alter the trophic magnification of persistent chemicals across river ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 2020, 717, 137271.
• Jâms IB, Windsor FM, Poudevigne-Durance T, Ormerod SJ, Durance I. Estimating the size distribution of plastics ingested by animals. Nature Communications 2020, 11, 1594.
• D'Souza JM, Windsor FM, Santillo D, Ormerod SJ. Food web transfer of plastics to an apex riverine predator. Global Change Biology 2020, 26(7), 3846-3857.
• Milner AM, Docherty CS, Windsor FM, Tojo K. Macroinvertebrate communities in streams with contrasting water sources in the Japanese Alps. Ecology and Evolution 2020, 10(14), 7812-7825.
• Stone C, Windsor FM, Munday M, Durance I. Natural or synthetic – how global trends in textile usage threaten freshwater environments. Science of the Total Environment 2020, 718, 134689.
• Windsor FM, Durance I, Horton AA, Thompson RC, Tyler CR, Ormerod SJ. A catchment-scale perspective of plastic pollution. Global Change Biology 2019, 25(4), 1207-1221.
• Windsor FM, Pereira GM, Tyler CR, Ormerod SJ. Biological Traits and the Transfer of Persistent Organic Pollutants through River Food Webs. Environmental Science and Technology 2019, 53(22), 13246-13256.
• Windsor FM, Tilley RM, Tyler CR, Ormerod SJ. Microplastic ingestion by riverine macroinvertebrates. Science of the Total Environment 2019, 646, 68-74.
• Windsor FM, Pereira MG, Tyler CR, Ormerod SJ. Persistent contaminants as potential constraints on the recovery of urban river food webs from gross pollution. Water Research 2019, 163, 114858.
• Windsor FM, Pereira MG, Tyler CR, Ormerod SJ. River organisms as indicators of the distribution and sources of persistent organic pollutants in contrasting catchments. Environmental Pollution 2019, 255(Part 1), 113144.
• Windsor FM, Ormerod SJ, Tyler CR. Endocrine disruption in aquatic ecosystems: upscaling research for addressing ecological consequences. Biological Reviews 2018, 93(1), 626-641.
• Gordon TAC, Harding HR, Clever FK, Davidson IK, Davison W, Montgomery DW, Weatherhead RC, Windsor FM, Armstrong JD, Bardonnet A, Bergman E, Britton JR, Côté IM, D'agostino D, Greenberg LA, Harborne AR, Kahilainen KK, Metcalfe NB, Mills SC, Milner NJ, Mittermayer FH, Montorio L, Nedelec SL, Prokkola JM, Rutterford LA, Salvanes AGV, Simpson SD, Vainikka A, Pinnegar JK, Santos EM. Fishes in a changing world: learning from the past to promote sustainability of fish populations. Journal of Fish Biology 2018, 92(3), 804-827.
• Windsor FM, Grocott MT, Milner AM. An inter-catchment assessment of macroinvertebrate communities across groundwater-fed stream systems within Denali National Park, Interior Alaska. Hydrobiologia 2017, 785(1), 373-384.