Dr Jim Provan
PhD, BSc
Reader in Biological Science
Contact Details
- Email: jip14@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 3.22, Edward Llwyd Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622324
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- BR34520 - Wildlife Conservation
- BR10110 - Introduction to Conservation
- BR33420 - Global Biodiversity Conservation
- BR12810 - The Science of Climate
Coordinator
- BR34520 - Wildlife Conservation
- BR10110 - Introduction to Conservation
- BR33420 - Global Biodiversity Conservation
- BR12810 - The Science of Climate
Grader
Lecturer
- BR25820 - Aquatic Botany
- BR10020 - Foundations for Life
- BR10110 - Introduction to Conservation
- BR12810 - The Science of Climate
- BR33420 - Global Biodiversity Conservation
- BR30420 - The Agri-Environment
- BRM4920 - Frontiers in the Biosciences
- BR34520 - Wildlife Conservation
Additional Lecturer
Additional Tutor
Tutor
- BR10110 - Introduction to Conservation
- BR34520 - Wildlife Conservation
- BRM4920 - Frontiers in the Biosciences
- BR15720 - Wildlife Forensics
- BR10020 - Foundations for Life
- BR33420 - Global Biodiversity Conservation
- BR12810 - The Science of Climate
- BR15700 - Wildlife Forensics
- BG12410 - Sgiliau Astudio a Chyfathrebu
Research
My current research is primarily concerned with the evolutionary responses of natural populations to global change. This ranges from using phylogeographic approaches to elucidate the response of species to previous climatic changes through the Ice Ages, through population genetic analyses of the impacts of present-day climate change on populations, to using next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches to determine the potential for populations to respond to future climate change. I also carry out work in conservation genetics to inform management strategies for rare and threatened species.
Publications
Healey, AJE, McKeown, N, Taylor, AL, Provan, J, Sauer, W, Gouws, G & Shaw, P 2018, 'Cryptic species and parallel genetic structuring in Lethrinid fish: Implications for conservation and management in the southwest Indian Ocean', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2182-2195. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3775
Roberts, HR, Warren, J & Provan, J 2018, 'Evidence for facultative protocarnivory in Capsella bursa-pastoris seeds', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, 10120. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-28564-x
Mooney, K, Beatty, G, Elsäßer, B, Follis, E, Kregting, L, O'Connor, N, Riddell, G & Provan, J 2018, 'Hierarchical structuring of genetic variation at differing geographic scales in the cultivated sugar kelp Saccharina latissima', Marine Environmental Research, vol. 142, pp. 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.09.029
Lam, VKY, Darby, H, Merckx, VSFT, Lim, G, Yukawa, T, Neubig, KM, Abbott, JR, Beatty, GE, Provan, J, Gomez, MS & Graham, SW 2018, 'Phylogenomic inference in extremis: : A case study with mycoheterotroph plastomes', American Journal of Botany, vol. 105, no. 3, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1070
Wu, Z, Liu, J, Provan, J, Wang, H, Chen, C-J, Cadotte, M, Luo, Y-H, Amorim, B, Li, D-Z & Milne, R 2018, 'Testing Darwin’s transoceanic dispersal hypothesis for the inland nettle family (Urticaceae)', Ecology Letters, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 1515-1529. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13132
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