Background

Background

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

Brief CV

• 2019-present: Postdoctoral Research Associate "Developing network ecology to understand and secure resilient food systems" with Dr Darren Evans, Dr 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 (GW4 DTP Studentship, Cardiff University)
• 2014-2015: River Environments and their Management MSc (British Hydrological Society Scholarship, University of Birmingham)
• 2011-2014: Geography BSc (WA Cadbury Award, 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

Personal websites

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SCOPUS

ORCID 0000-0001-5030-3470

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Publications

• 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, epub ahead of print.
• Milner AM, Docherty CS, Windsor FM, Tojo K. Macroinvertebrate communities in streams with contrasting water sources in the Japanese Alps. Ecology and Evolution 2020, (ePub ahead of Print).
• 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.
• Stone C, Windsor FM, Munday M, Durance I. Global risks to freshwater environments from trends in textile usage - a technological or societal issue?. Science of the Total Environment 2019, 134689.
• 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.