Professor of Evolutionary Palaeoecology
Faculty of Science and Technology
Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow
Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB
Professor John Stewart – Bournemouth University Staff Profile Pages
Email: jstewart@bournemouth.ac.uk
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Research Description
I am an evolutionary palaeoecologist with broad research interests encompassing the use of faunas in reconstructing Pleistocene and Holocene ecologies (and increasingly from the Neogene), understanding the nature, timing and location of ice age refugia for species, and building and testing molecular biogeographical hypotheses on how species respond to environmental change (in collaboration with ancient DNA practitioners). I have also worked extensively on the ecology and adaptations of Palaeolithic humans in Eurasia as well how this may impact their population or species extinctions. I am also interested in the relationship between species and subspecies level evolution as well as extinction during the Quaternary; and more recently the use of Quaternary data in conservation biology.