Alex Cranston

A PhD thesis title page. Title reads "Assembly of Ungulate Communities as an Outcome of Interspecific Interactions Over Ecological and Evolutionary Timeframes". Subtitle reads "Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements of the University of Liverpool for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy by Alexander William Cranston, May 2025"

Personal milestone - submitted my PhD thesis yesterday after three and a half years of study on the ecology and evolution of ungulate communities in Africa 🎉🥳!

Definitely looking forward to enjoying a short break but excited for the viva and (hopefully) a few publications further down the line.

16.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

A blue trolley with two shelves. On the shelves are piled rolled up skins of antelope. These are light brown in colour

The skin of a lesser kudu being measured by Alex in a red jumper using a blue tape measure. The brown skin with white stripes is laid on a white table. In the background two people (Chloe and Hannah) are recording data onto laptops.

A much larger skin of a greater kudu being measured by measured. The skin is dark brown with a few white stripes and sits on a white table. The head and legs are hanging off the table as it is such a large skin.

Today we are collecting data for a project on stripes in spiral horned antelope. The skins are rolled up in the collections. We then move them to a side room where @cranstonalex.bsky.social is measuring. Chloe and Hannah are recording. This genus (Tragelaphus) varies a lot in size as you can see!

16.12.2024 15:13 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Christmas surprising science m.youtube.com/watch?v=rScW... from @cranstonalex.bsky.social (also the reason I had a polar bear skull in my office!)

05.12.2024 09:00 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Using joint species distribution modelling to identify climatic and non‐climatic drivers of Afrotropical ungulate distributions The relative importance of the different processes that determine the distribution of species and the assembly of communities is a key question in ecology. The distribution of any individual species ...

Trying to actually to use this account over *the other place*, so here's a plug for my first PhD paper, published a few months ago.

We found evidence that dispersal barriers + species interactions influence species distributions in sub-Saharan ungulates. Give it a read! ⬇️

doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

14.11.2024 13:49 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0