Dr Jason Chapman
Associate Professor
J.Chapman2@exeter.ac.uk
+44 (0)1326 371892
Stella Turk Building 120
University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, TR10 9FE
Overview
I am a movement ecologist interested in the evolution of animal migration strategies, and the population and community-level effects of these long-range movements. I study insects and birds to answer these questions, and use novel technologies including biological radars, weather radars, meteorological simulations, tethered flight techniques and genomic approaches to characterize their migration ecology.
Qualifications
1992 BSc (Swansea)
1997 PhD (Southampton)
Career
2016 – present Associate Professor, University of Exeter
2009 – 2016 Principal Research Scientist, Rothamsted Research
1999 – 2009 Senior Research Scientist, Rothamsted Research
1997 – 1999 Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Southampton
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Research group links
Research
Research projects
Insect Compass Navigation: I am interested in elucidating the compass mechanisms that migratory insects use to select and maintain beneficial migratory directions. We have good evidence that day-flying migrant butterflies use a time-compensated sun compass, but the compass mechanisms that nocturnal insects use are still to be identified.
Flow Detection and Selection: All swimming and flying migrants have to deal with currents, which may facilitate or oppose movement in the preferred direction, or cause the migrants to drift off course. I am interested in the mechanisms by which migrants detect the speed and directions of flows, and then how they integrate this information with their compass mechanisms to take up beneficial directions in relation to the flows they experience during their journeys.
Costs and Benefits of Migration: Migration is extremely costly energetically, and a risky behaviour which can lead to increased mortality through greater exposure to predators, parasites and pathogens, or through simply getting lost. Given these costs, why do so many animals migrate, and why are some migrants among the most successful and widespread species on the planet? I am investigating how the costs of migration are offset by the benefits that may accrue.
Using Radars to Monitor and Forecast Pest Invasions: Ongoing radar deployments in Texas and East-central China are aimed at developing pest monitoring and ultimately forecasting systems for important migratory crop pests such as the Fall Armyworm, Corn Earworm, Cotton Bollworm, Oriental Armyworm and Migratory Locust.
Developing Continental-scale Migration Monitoring: With many collaborators, I lead an EU COST Action called “ENRAM” (the European Network for the Radar surveillance of Animal Movement), aimed at developing methods for studying the atmospheric movements of birds, bats and insects over the European continent (see www.enram.eu).
Grants/Funding:
2016-2019 STFC - Newton Fund (China), £1M
2015-2016 USDA award, $20K
2015-2016 STFC - Newton Fund (China), £350K
2014-2016 BBSRC Standard Research Grant, £1M
2014-2017 EU COST Action (ENRAM), €500K
2014-2017 BBSRC China Partnering Award, £30K
2013-2016 NERC Standard Research Grant, £500K
2013-2015 ESI, University of Exeter contract, £200K
2013-2015 Rothamsted Directorate Award, £200K
2012-2015 BBSRC PhD Studentship, £80K
2011-2014 BBSRC PhD Studentship, £80K
2010-2012 Esmée Fairbairn Foundation grant, £50K
2006-2009 BBSRC PhD Studentship, £80K
2006-2009 BBSRC Standard Research Grant, £350K
2004-2007 BBSRC PhD Studentship, £80K
2001-2004 BBSRC Standard Research Grant, £285K
Publications
Journal articles
Yang F, Wang P, Zheng M, Hou X-Y, Zhou L-L, Wang Y, Si S-Y, Wang X-P, Chapman JW, Wang Y-M, et al (2024). Physiological and behavioral basis of diamondback moth Plutella xylostella migration and its association with heat stress. Pest Manag Sci, 80(4), 1751-1760. Abstract. Author URL.
Chen H, Wan G, Li J, Ma Y, Reynolds DR, Dreyer D, Warrant EJ, Chapman JW, Hu G (2023). Adaptive migratory orientation of an invasive pest on a new continent. iScience, 26(12).
Hawkes WL, Davies K, Weston S, Moyes K, Chapman JW, Wotton KR (2023). Bat activity correlated with migratory insect bioflows in the Pyrenees. Royal Society Open Science, 10(8). Abstract.
Lv H, Zhai M-Y, Zeng J, Zhang Y-Y, Zhu F, Shen H-M, Qiu K, Gao B-Y, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, et al (2023). Changing patterns of the East Asian monsoon drive shifts in migration and abundance of a globally important rice pest. Glob Chang Biol, 29(10), 2655-2668. Abstract. Author URL.
Hawkes WL, Ozden O, Foster O, Walliker T, Lacey K, Gao B, Chapman JW, Wotton KR (2023). High mortality of beetle migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean Flyway. INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY, 16(6), 896-901. Author URL.
Lehmann T, Bamou R, Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Armbruster PA, Dao A, Yaro AS, Burkot TR, Linton Y-M (2023). Urban malaria may be spreading via the wind-here's why that's important. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 120(18). Author URL.
Zhu J, Chen X, Liu J, Jiang Y, Chen F, Lu J, Chen H, Zhai B, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, et al (2022). A cold high-pressure system over North China hinders the southward migration of Mythimna separata in autumn. Mov Ecol, 10(1). Abstract. Author URL.
Yaro AS, Linton Y-M, Dao A, Diallo M, Sanogo ZL, Samake D, Ousmane Y, Kouam C, Krajacich BJ, Faiman R, et al (2022). Diversity, composition, altitude, and seasonality of high-altitude windborne migrating mosquitoes in the Sahel: Implications for disease transmission. Frontiers in Epidemiology, 2
Chen H, Wang Y, Huang L, Xu CF, Li JH, Wang FY, Cheng W, Gao BY, Chapman JW, Hu G, et al (2022). Flight Capability and the Low Temperature Threshold of a Chinese Field Population of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda. Insects, 13(5). Abstract.
Doyle T, Jimenez-Guri E, Hawkes WLS, Massy R, Mantica F, Permanyer J, Cozzuto L, Hermoso Pulido T, Baril T, Hayward A, et al (2022). Genome-wide transcriptomic changes reveal the genetic pathways involved in insect migration. Mol Ecol, 31(16), 4332-4350. Abstract. Author URL.
Hawkes WLS, Walliker E, Gao B, Forster O, Lacey K, Doyle T, Massy R, Roberts NW, Reynolds DR, Özden Ö, et al (2022). Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services. Ecography, 2022(10). Abstract.
Menz MHM, Scacco M, Bürki-Spycher H-M, Williams HJ, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, Wikelski M (2022). Individual tracking reveals long-distance flight-path control in a nocturnally migrating moth. Science, 377(6607), 764-768. Abstract.
Guo JW, Cui Y, Lin PJ, Zhai BP, Lu ZX, Chapman JW, Hu G (2022). Male nutritional status does not impact the reproductive potential of female Cnaphalocrocis medinalis moths under conditions of nutrient shortage. Insect Science, 29(2), 467-477. Abstract.
Shamoun-Baranes J, Bauer S, Chapman JW, Desmet P, Dokter AM, Farnsworth A, van Gasteren H, Haest B, Koistinen J, Kranstauber B, et al (2022). Meteorological Data Policies Needed to Support Biodiversity Monitoring with Weather Radar. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103(4), e1234-e1242.
Shi X, Hu C, Soderholm J, Chapman J, Mao H, Cui K, Ma Z, Wu D, Fuller RA (2022). Prospects for monitoring bird migration along the East <scp>Asian‐Australasian</scp> Flyway using weather radar. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 9(2), 169-181. Abstract.
Stefanescu C, Hu G, Oliver TH, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW (2022). Reply to López-Mañas et al.: Spatial population models of migrants should be underpinned by phenology, behavior, and ecology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 119(19). Author URL.
Lukach M, Dally T, Evans W, Hassall C, Duncan EJ, Bennett L, Addison FI, Kunin WE, Chapman JW, Neely RRIII, et al (2022). The development of an unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis of dual-polarization weather surveillance radar observations to assess nocturnal insect abundance and diversity. REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, 8(5), 698-716. Author URL.
Hu G, Stefanescu C, Oliver TH, Roy DB, Brereton T, Van Swaay C, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW (2021). Environmental drivers of annual population fluctuations in a trans-Saharan insect migrant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(26). Abstract.
Jyothi P, Aralimarad P, Wali V, Dave S, Bheemanna M, Ashoka J, Shivayogiyappa P, Lim KS, Chapman JW, Sane SP, et al (2021). Evidence for facultative migratory flight behavior in Helicoverpa armigera (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) in India. PLoS ONE, 16(1 January). Abstract.
Massy R, Hawkes WLS, Doyle T, Troscianko J, Menz MHM, Roberts NW, Chapman JW, Wotton KR (2021). Hoverflies use a time-compensated sun compass to orientate during autumn migration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1959), 20211805-20211805. Abstract.
Chowdhury S, Fuller RA, Dingle H, Chapman JW, Zalucki MP (2021). Migration in butterflies: a global overview. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 96(4), 1462-1483. Abstract. Author URL.
Hedlund JSU, Lv H, Lehmann P, Hu G, Anderson RC, Chapman JW (2021). Unraveling the World's Longest Non-stop Migration: the Indian Ocean Crossing of the Globe Skimmer Dragonfly. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 9 Author URL.
Shamoun-Baranes J, Bauer S, Chapman JW, Desmet P, Dokter AM, Farnsworth A, Haest B, Koistinen J, Kranstauber B, Liechti F, et al (2021). Weather radars' role in biodiversity monitoring. Science, 372(6539).
Gao B, Wotton KR, Hawkes WLS, Menz MHM, Reynolds DR, Zhai B-P, Hu G, Chapman JW (2020). Adaptive strategies of high-flying migratory hoverflies in response to wind currents. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1928), 20200406-20200406. Abstract.
Florio J, Verú LM, Dao A, Yaro AS, Diallo M, Sanogo ZL, Samaké D, Huestis DL, Yossi O, Talamas E, et al (2020). Diversity, dynamics, direction, and magnitude of high-altitude migrating insects in the Sahel. Sci Rep, 10(1). Abstract. Author URL.
Zhang L, Cheng L, Chapman JW, Sappington TW, Liu J, Cheng Y, Jiang X (2020). Juvenile hormone regulates the shift from migrants to residents in adult oriental armyworm, Mythimna separata. Sci Rep, 10(1). Abstract. Author URL.
Wang Y-P, Tu X-B, Lin P-J, Li S, Xu C-M, Wang X-Q, Reynolds DR, Chapman J, Zhang Z-H, Hu G, et al (2020). Migratory Take-Off Behaviour of the Mongolian Grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus. Insects, 11(7). Abstract. Author URL.
Wang Y-P, Wu M-F, Lin P-J, Wang Y, Chen A-D, Jiang Y-Y, Zhai B-P, Chapman JW, Hu G (2020). Plagues of Desert Locust: No invasion risk to China. Abstract.
Wang Y-P, Wu M-F, Lin P-J, Wang Y, Chen A-D, Jiang Y-Y, Zhai B-P, Chapman JW, Hu G (2020). Plagues of Desert Locusts: Very Low Invasion Risk to China. Insects, 11(9), 628-628. Abstract.
Li X-J, Wu M-F, Ma J, Gao B-Y, Wu Q-L, Chen A-D, Liu J, Jiang Y-Y, Zhai B-P, Early R, et al (2020). Prediction of migratory routes of the invasive fall armyworm in eastern China using a trajectory analytical approach. Pest Manag Sci, 76(2), 454-463. Abstract. Author URL.
Satterfield DA, Sillett TS, Chapman JW, Altizer S, Marra PP (2020). Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 18(6), 335-344. Author URL.
Gao B, Hedlund J, Reynolds DR, Zhai B, Hu G, Chapman JW (2020). The ‘migratory connectivity’ concept, and its applicability to insect migrants. Movement Ecology, 8(1). Abstract.
Denerley C, Redpath SM, van der Wal R, Newson SE, Chapman JW, Wilson JD (2019). Breeding ground correlates of the distribution and decline of the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus at two spatial scales. Ibis, 161(2), 346-358. Abstract.
Wotton KR, Boya G, Menz M, Morris R, Ball S, Lim K, Reynolds D, Hu G, Chapman J (2019). Mass Seasonal Migrations of Hoverflies Provide Extensive Pollination and Crop Protection Services. Current Biology, 29(13), 2167-2173.
Tu X, Hu G, Fu X, Zhang Y, Ma J, Wang Y, Gould PJL, Du G, Su H, Zhang Z, et al (2019). Mass windborne migrations extend the range of the migratory locust in East China. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 22(1), 41-49. Abstract.
Menz MHM, Reynolds DR, Gao B, Hu G, Chapman JW, Wotton KR (2019). Mechanisms and Consequences of Partial Migration in Insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7
Wu Q, Hu G, Tuan HA, Chen X, Lu M, Zhai B, Chapman JW (2019). Migration patterns and winter population dynamics of rice planthoppers in Indochina: New perspectives from field surveys and atmospheric trajectories. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 265, 99-109. Abstract.
Jones CM, Parry H, Tay WT, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW (2019). Movement Ecology of Pest Helicoverpa: Implications for Ongoing Spread. Annu Rev Entomol, 64, 277-295. Abstract. Author URL.
Schmid B, Zaugg S, Votier SC, Chapman JW, Boos M, Liechti F (2019). Size matters in quantitative radar monitoring of animal migration: estimating monitored volume from wingbeat frequency. Ecography, 42(5), 931-941. Abstract.
Shamoun-Baranes J, Nilsson C, Bauer S, Chapman J (2019). Taking radar aeroecology into the 21st century. Ecography, 42(5), 847-851.
Bauer S, Shamoun-Baranes J, Nilsson C, Farnsworth A, Kelly JF, Reynolds DR, Dokter AM, Krauel JF, Petterson LB, Horton KG, et al (2019). The grand challenges of migration ecology that radar aeroecology can help answer. Ecography, 42(5), 861-875. Abstract.
Nilsson C, Dokter AM, Schmid B, Scacco M, Verlinden L, Bäckman J, Haase G, Dell’Omo G, Chapman JW, Leijnse H, et al (2018). Field validation of radar systems for monitoring bird migration. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55(6), 2552-2564. Abstract.
Jones CM, Lim KS, Chapman JW, Bass C (2018). Genome-Wide Characterization of DNA Methylation in an Invasive Lepidopteran Pest, the Cotton Bollworm Helicoverpa armigera. G3 (Bethesda), 8(3), 779-787. Abstract. Author URL.
Dällenbach LJ, Glauser A, Lim KS, Chapman JW, Menz MHM (2018). Higher flight activity in the offspring of migrants compared to residents in a migratory insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1881). Abstract.
Hu G, Lu MH, Reynolds DR, Wang HK, Chen X, Liu WC, Zhu F, Wu XW, Xia F, Xie MC, et al (2018). Long-term seasonal forecasting of a major migrant insect pest: the brown planthopper in the Lower Yangtze River Valley. Journal of Pest Science Abstract.
Nilsson C, Dokter AM, Verlinden L, Shamoun-Baranes J, Schmid B, Desmet P, Bauer S, Chapman J, Alves JA, Stepanian PM, et al (2018). Revealing patterns of nocturnal migration using the European weather radar network. Ecography Abstract.
Minter M, Pearson A, Lim KS, Wilson K, Chapman JW, Jones CM (2018). The tethered flight technique as a tool for studying life-history strategies associated with migration in insects. Ecological Entomology, 43(4), 397-411. Abstract.
Palmer G, Platts PJ, Brereton T, Chapman JW, Dytham C, Fox R, Pearce-Higgins JW, Roy DB, Hill JK, Thomas CD, et al (2017). Climate change, climatic variation and extreme biological responses. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 372(1723). Abstract. Author URL.
Bauer S, Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Alves JA, Dokter AM, Menz MMH, Sapir N, Ciach M, Pettersson LB, Kelly JF, et al (2017). From Agricultural Benefits to Aviation Safety: Realizing the Potential of Continent-Wide Radar Networks. BioScience, 67(10), 912-918. Abstract.
Chapman JW (2017). Honey buzzards don't always make a beeline. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86(2), 173-175. Abstract.
Mauchline AL, Cook SM, Powell W, Chapman JW, Osborne JL (2017). Migratory flight behaviour of the pollen beetle Meligethes aeneus. Pest Manag Sci, 73(6), 1076-1082. Abstract. Author URL.
Drake VA, Chapman JW, Lim KS, Reynolds DR, Riley JR, Smith AD (2017). Ventral-aspect radar cross sections and polarization patterns of insects at X band and their relation to size and form. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING, 38(18), 5022-5044. Author URL.
Lehmann T, Huestis D, Yaro A, Florio J, Diallo M, Sanogo Z, Djibril S, Faiman R, Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, et al (2017). WIND-ASSISTED LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATION OF MALARIA MOSQUITOES IN THE SAHEL. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 95(5), 209-209. Author URL.
Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, Stewart AJA (2017). Windborne migration of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) over Britain. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, 114, 554-564. Author URL.
Hu G, Lim KS, Horvitz N, Clark SJ, Reynolds DR, Sapir N, Chapman JW (2016). Mass seasonal bioflows of high-flying insect migrants. Science, 354(6319), 1584-1587. Abstract. Author URL.
Reynolds AM, Reynolds DR, Sane SP, Hu G, Chapman JW (2016). Orientation in high-flying migrant insects in relation to flows: Mechanisms and strategies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1704). Abstract.
Palmer G, Hill JK, Brereton TM, Brooks DR, Chapman JW, Fox R, Oliver TH, Thomas CD (2016). Retraction of the Research Article: "Individualistic sensitivities and exposure to climate change explain variation in species' distribution and abundance changes". Sci Adv, 2(4). Abstract. Author URL.
Hu G, Lim KS, Reynolds DR, Reynolds AM, Chapman JW (2016). Wind-related orientation patterns in diurnal, crepuscular and nocturnal high-altitude insect migrants. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10 Abstract.
Chapman JW, Nilsson C, Lim KS, Bäckman J, Reynolds DR, Alerstam T (2015). Adaptive strategies in nocturnally migrating insects and songbirds: Contrasting responses to wind. Journal of Animal Ecology, 85(1), 115-124. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Nilsson C, Lim KS, Bäckman J, Reynolds DR, Alerstam T, Reynolds AM (2015). Detection of flow direction in high-flying insect and songbird migrants. Current Biology, 25(17), R751-R752. Abstract.
Reynolds AM, Jones HBC, Hill JK, Pearson AJ, Wilson K, Wolf S, Lim KS, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW (2015). Evidence for a pervasive ‘idling-mode’ activity template in flying and pedestrian insects. Royal Society Open Science, 2(5). Abstract.
Jones CM, Papanicolaou A, Mironidis GK, Vontas J, Yang Y, Lim KS, Oakeshott JG, Bass C, Chapman JW (2015). Genomewide transcriptional signatures of migratory flight activity in a globally invasive insect pest. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 24(19), 4901-4911. Author URL.
Palmer G, Hill JK, Brereton TM, Brooks DR, Chapman JW, Fox R, Oliver TH, Thomas CD (2015). Individualistic sensitivities and exposure to climate change explain variation in species' distribution and abundance changes. Sci Adv, 1(9). Abstract. Author URL.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Wilson K (2015). Long-range seasonal migration in insects: Mechanisms, evolutionary drivers and ecological consequences. Ecology Letters, 18(3), 287-302. Abstract.
Jones HBC, Lim KS, Bell JR, Hill JK, Chapman JW (2015). Quantifying interspecific variation in dispersal ability of noctuid moths using an advanced tethered flight technique. Ecology and Evolution, 6(1), 181-190. Abstract.
Shamoun-Baranes J, Alves JA, Bauer S, Dokter AM, Hüppop O, Koistinen J, Leijnse H, Liechti F, Gasteren HV, Chapman JW, et al (2014). Continental-scale radar monitoring of the aerial movements of animals. Movement Ecology, 2(1). Abstract.
Reynolds DR, Reynolds AM, Chapman JW (2014). Non-volant modes of migration in terrestrial arthropods. Animal Migration, 2(1), 8-28.
Fu XW, Li C, Feng HQ, Liu ZF, Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Wu KM (2014). Seasonal migration of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) over the Bohai Sea in Northern China. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 104(5), 601-609. Abstract.
Jeffries DL, Chapman J, Roy HE, Humphries S, Harrington R, Brown PMJ, Handley L-JL (2013). Characteristics and drivers of high-altitude ladybird flight: insights from vertical-looking entomological radar. PLoS One, 8(12). Abstract. Author URL.
Reynolds DR, Nau BS, Chapman JW (2013). High-altitude migration of heteroptera in Britain. European Journal of Entomology, 110(3), 483-492. Abstract.
Stefanescu C, Páramo F, Åkesson S, Alarcón M, Ávila A, Brereton T, Carnicer J, Cassar LF, Fox R, Heliölä J, et al (2013). Multi-generational long-distance migration of insects: Studying the painted lady butterfly in the Western Palaearctic. Ecography, 36(4), 474-486. Abstract.
Bell JR, Aralimarad P, Lim KS, Chapman JW (2013). Predicting Insect Migration Density and Speed in the Daytime Convective Boundary Layer. PLoS ONE, 8(1). Abstract.
Chapman JW, Lim KS, Reynolds DR (2013). The significance of midsummer movements of <i>Autographa gamma</i>: Implications for a mechanistic understanding of orientation behavior in a migrant moth. CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 59(3), 360-370. Author URL.
O'Neill BF, Bond K, Tyner A, Sheppard R, Bryant T, Chapman J, Bell J, Donnelly A (2012). Climatic change is advancing the phenology of moth species in Ireland. ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA, 143(1), 74-88. Author URL.
Brooks DR, Bater JE, Clark SJ, Monteith DT, Andrews C, Corbett SJ, Beaumont DA, Chapman JW (2012). Large carabid beetle declines in a United Kingdom monitoring network increases evidence for a widespread loss in insect biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49(5), 1009-1019. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Bell JR, Burgin LE, Reynolds DR, Pettersson LB, Hill JK, Bonsall MB, Thomas JA (2012). Seasonal migration to high latitudes results in major reproductive benefits in an insect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(37), 14924-14929. Abstract.
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Chapman JW, Klaassen RHG, Drake VA, Fossette S, Hays GC, Metcalfe JD, Reynolds AM, Reynolds DR, Alerstam T (2011). Animal orientation strategies for movement in flows. Current Biology, 21(20). Abstract.
Alerstam T, Chapman JW, Bäckman J, Smith AD, Karlsson H, Nilsson C, Reynolds DR, Klaassen RHG, Hill JK (2011). Convergent patterns of long-distance nocturnal migration in noctuid moths and passerine birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1721), 3074-3080. Abstract.
Aralimarad P, Reynolds AM, Lim KS, Reynolds DR, Chapman JW (2011). Flight altitude selection increases orientation performance in high-flying nocturnal insect migrants. Animal Behaviour, 82(6), 1221-1225. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Drake VA, Reynolds DR (2011). Recent insights from radar studies of insect flight. Annual Review of Entomology, 56, 337-356. Abstract.
Reynolds AM, Reynolds DR, Smith AD, Chapman JW (2010). A single wind-mediated mechanism explains high-altitude 'non-goal oriented' headings and layering of nocturnally migrating insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1682), 765-772. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Nesbit RL, Burgin LE, Reynolds DR, Smith AD, Middleton DR, Hill JK (2010). Flight orientation behaviors promote optimal migration trajectories in high-flying insects. Science, 327(5966), 682-685. Abstract.
Wood CR, Clark SJ, Barlow JF, Chapman JW (2010). Layers of nocturnal insect migrants at high-altitude: the influence of atmospheric conditions on their formation. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 12(1), 113-121. Abstract.
Reynolds AM, Reynolds DR, Smith AD, Chapman JW (2010). Orientation cues for high-flying nocturnal insect migrants: Do turbulence-induced temperature and velocity fluctuations indicate the mean wind flow?. PLoS ONE, 5(12). Abstract.
Wood CR, Reynolds DR, Wells PM, Barlow JF, Woiwod IP, Chapman JW (2009). Flight periodicity and the vertical distribution of high-altitude moth migration over southern Britain. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 99(5), 525-535. Author URL.
Nesbit RL, Hill JK, Woiwod IP, Sivell D, Bensusan KJ, Chapman JW (2009). Seasonally adaptive migratory headings mediated by a sun compass in the painted lady butterfly, <i>Vanessa cardui</i>. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 78(5), 1119-1125. Author URL.
Reynolds DR, Smith AD, Chapman JW (2008). A radar study of emigratory flight and layer formation by insects at dawn over southern Britain. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 98(1), 35-52. Author URL.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Hill JK, Sivell D, Smith AD, Woiwod IP (2008). A seasonal switch in compass orientation in a high-flying migrant moth. Current Biology, 18(19). Abstract.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Mouritsen H, Hill JK, Riley JR, Sivell D, Smith AD, Woiwod IP (2008). Wind Selection and Drift Compensation Optimize Migratory Pathways in a High-Flying Moth. Current Biology, 18(7), 514-518. Abstract.
Chapman JW (2007). 29.1. Behavioural adaptations of long-range insect migrants. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part a Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 148
Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, Edwards AS, Smith AD, Wood CR, Barlow JF, Woiwod IP (2007). Radar studies of the vertical distribution of insects migrating over southern Britain: the influence of temperature inversions on nocturnal layer concentrations. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 95(3), 259-274.
Riley JR, Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Smith AD (2007). Recent applications of radar to entomology. Outlooks on Pest Management, 18(2), 62-68. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Brooks SJ, Smith AD, Woiwod IP (2006). Seasonal variation in the migration strategies of the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea species complex. Ecological Entomology, 31(4), 378-388. Abstract.
Wood CR, Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Barlow JF, Smith AD, Woiwod IP (2006). The influence of the atmospheric boundary layer on nocturnal layers of noctuids and other moths migrating over southern Britain. International Journal of Biometeorology, 50(4), 193-204. Abstract.
Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, Harrington R (2006). The migration of insect vectors of plant and animal viruses. PLANT VIRUS EPIDEMIOLOGY, 67, 453-517. Author URL.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Smith AD, Riley JR, Telfer MG, Woiwod IP (2005). Mass aerial migration in the carabid beetle Notiophilus biguttatus. Ecological Entomology, 30(3), 264-272. Abstract.
Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, Edwards AS, Smith AD, Wood CR, Barlow JF, Woiwod IP (2005). Radar studies of the vertical distribution of insects migrating over southern Britain: the influence of temperature inversions on nocturnal layer concentrations. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 95(3), 259-274. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Smith AD, Smith ET, Woiwod IP (2004). An aerial netting study of insects migrating at high altitude over England. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 94(2), 123-136. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Smith AD (2004). Migratory and foraging movements in beneficial insects: a review of radar monitoring and tracking methods. International Journal of Pest Management, 50(3), 225-232. Abstract.
Penagos DI, Magallanes R, Valle J, Cisneros J, Martínez AM, Goulson D, Chapman JW, Caballero P, Cave RD, Williams T, et al (2003). Effect of weeds on insect pests of maize and their natural enemies in Southern Mexico. International Journal of Pest Management, 49(2), 155-161. Abstract.
Armenta R, Martínez AM, Chapman JW, Magallanes R, Goulson D, Caballero P, Cave RD, Cisneros J, Valle J, Castillejos V, et al (2003). Impact of a Nucleopolyhedrovirus Bioinsecticide and Selected Synthetic Insecticides on the Abundance of Insect Natural Enemies on Maize in Southern Mexico. Journal of Economic Entomology, 96(3), 649-661. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Smith AD (2003). Vertical-looking radar: a new tool for monitoring high-altitude insect migration. BioScience, 53(5), 503-511. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Smith AD, Woiwod IP, Reynolds DR, Riley JR (2002). Development of vertical-looking radar technology for monitoring insect migration. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 35(2-3), 95-110. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Reynolds DR, Smith AD, Riley JR, Pedgley DE, Woiwod IP (2002). High-altitude migration of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella to the U.K.: a study using radar, aerial netting, and ground trapping. Ecological Entomology, 27(6), 641-650. Abstract.
Escribano A, Williams T, Goulson D, Cave RD, Chapman JW, Caballero P (2001). Consequences of interspecific competition on the virulence and genetic composition of a nucleopolyhedrovirus in <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> larvae parasitized by <i>Chelonus insularis</i>. BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 11(5), 649-662. Author URL.
Goulson D, Chapman JW, Hughes WOH (2001). Discrimination of unrewarding flowers by bees; direct detection of rewards and use of repellent scent marks. Journal of Insect Behavior, 14(5), 669-678. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Williams T, Martínez AM, Cisneros J, Caballero P, Cave RD, Goulson D (2000). Does cannibalism in Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) reduce the risk of predation?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 48(4), 321-327. Abstract.
Escribano A, Williams T, Goulson D, Cave Ronald D, Chapman Jason W, Caballero P (2000). Effect of parasitism on a nucleopolyhedrovirus amplified in Spodoptera frugiperda larvae parasitized by Campoletis sonorensis. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 97(3), 257-264. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Goulson D (2000). Environmental versus genetic influences on fluctuating asymmetry in the house fly, <i>Musca domestica</i>. BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 70(3), 403-413. Author URL.
Chapman JW, Goulson D (2000). Environmental versus genetic influences on fluctuating asymmetry in the house fly, Musca domestica. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 70(3), 403-413. Abstract.
CHAPMAN J (2000). Environmental versus genetic influences on fluctuating asymmetry in the house fly, Musca domestica. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 70(3), 403-413.
Martínez AM, Goulson D, Chapman JW, Caballero P, Cave RD, Williams T (2000). Is it feasible to use optical brightener technology with a baculovirus bioinsecticide for resource-poor maize farmers in mesoamerica?. Biological Control, 17(2), 174-181. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Williams T, Escribano A, Caballero P, Cave RD, Goulson D (1999). Age-related cannibalism and horizontal transmission of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus in larval Spodoptera frugiperda. Ecological Entomology, 24(3), 268-275. Abstract.
Williams T, Goulson D, Caballero P, Cisneros J, Martínez AM, Chapman JW, Roman DX, Cave RD (1999). Evaluation of a baculovirus bioinsecticide for small-scale maize growers in Latin America. Biological Control, 14(2), 67-75. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Williams T, Escribano A, Caballero P, Cave RD, Goulson D (1999). Fitness consequences of cannibalism in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda. Behavioral Ecology, 10(3), 298-303. Abstract.
Goulson D, Hughes WOH, Chapman JW (1999). Fly populations associated with landfill and composting sites used for household refuse disposal. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 89(6), 493-498. Abstract.
Escribano A, Williams T, Goulson D, Cave RD, Chapman JW, Caballero P (1999). Selection of a nucleopolyhedrovirus for control of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Structural, genetic, and biological comparison of four isolates from the Americas. Journal of Economic Entomology, 92(5), 1079-1085. Abstract.
Goulson D, Bristow L, Elderfield E, Brinklow K, Parry-Jones B, Chapman JW (1999). Size, symmetry, and sexual selection in the housefly, Musca domestica. Evolution, 53(2), 527-534. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Knapp JJ, Goulson D (1999). Visual responses of Musca domestica to pheromone impregnated targets in poultry units. Med Vet Entomol, 13(2), 132-138. Abstract. Author URL.
Chapman JW, Knapp JJ, Howse PE, Goulson D (1998). An evaluation of (<i>Z</i>)-9-tricosene and food odours for attracting house flies, <i>Musca domestica</i>, to baited targets in deep-pit poultry units. ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA, 89(2), 183-192. Author URL.
Chapman JW, Knapp JJ, Howse PE, Goulson D (1998). An evaluation of (Z)-9-tricosene and food odours for attracting house flies, Musca domestica, to baited targets in deep-pit poultry units. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 89(2), 183-192. Abstract.
Chapman JW, Howse PE, Knapp JJ, Goulson D (1998). Evaluation of three (Z)-9-tricosene formulations for control of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) in caged-layer poultry units. J Econ Entomol, 91(4), 915-922. Abstract. Author URL.
Chapters
Chapman JW, Drake VA (2019). Insect migration. In (Ed) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 573-580. Abstract.
Reynolds DR, Chapman JW, Drake VA (2018). Riders on the wind: the aeroecology of insect migrants. In (Ed) Aeroecology, 145-178. Abstract.
Bauer S, Nolet BA, Giske J, Chapman JW, Åkesson S, Hedenström A, Fryxell JM (2011). Cues and decision rules in animal migration. In (Ed) Animal Migration, Oxford University Press (OUP), 68-87.
Chapman JW, Drake VA (2009). Insect Migration. In (Ed) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 161-166. Abstract.
Conferences
Lehmann T, Yaro A, Lamissa Z, Djibril S, Diallo M, Yossi O, Huestis DL, Linton YM, Mitchell R, Krajacich B, et al (2019). WINDBORNE LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATION OF MOSQUITOES AND PATHOGENS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MALARIA ELIMINATION. Author URL.
Gürbüz SZ, Reynolds DR, Koistinen J, Liechti F, Leijnse H, Shamoun-Baranes J, Dokter AM, Kelly J, Chapman JW (2015). Exploring the skies: Technological challenges in radar aeroecology. Abstract.
Chilson PB, Bridge E, Frick WF, Chapman JW, Kelly JF (2012). Radar aeroecology: Exploring the movements of aerial fauna through radio-wave remote sensing. Abstract.
External Engagement and Impact
Committee/panel activities
Chair of ENRAM
Council member of the Royal Entomological Society
Editorial responsibilities
Associate Editor of the Journal of Animal Ecology
Teaching
- BIO3417 Tenerife Field Course
- BIO2443 Cyprus Field Course
Modules
2023/24
- BIO3421 - Animal Migration
- BIO3432 - Human-Wildlife Coexistence in India Field Course
- BIO3442 - Human-Wildlife Coexistence Field Course
Supervision / Group
Postdoctoral researchers
- Gao Hu (Visiting Chinese Scholar)
Postgraduate researchers
- Aislinn Pearson (University of Lancaster, Rothamsted Research, University of Exeter)
