Jake L Snaddon is a Lecturer in Environmental Sciences within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, whose research focuses on tropical forest and agricultural ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and the conservation of biological resources.
PhD Students
Georgina Hollands, The effect of stressors on bees
Jennifer Ball, Measuring and optimising multiple ecosystem services provided by chalk streams, (Oct 2016-Present) Co-supervised with Kelvin Peh and Rob Holland
Andrew Hill, Acoustic environmental monitoring: a low-cost efficient tool for evaluating human exploitation of tropical forests. (Oct 2015-Present) Co-supervised with Patrick Doncaster and Alex Rogers.
Nunto Nattapoom, Evaluation of management and restoration of riparian reserves in oil palm plantations. (Oct 2014-Present) Co-supervised with Guy Poppy
Current MSc/MEnSci Students
Sophie Coombes, MSc Environmental Science, Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in thermal tolerance of ants
Hannah Gunn, MSc Environmental Science, Bat activity Upper Hamble Estuary and woods
Current BSc students
Ryan Brazendale, BSc Biodiversity & Conservation, Edge effect of linear clearings on diversity of flying insects
George O’Ferral, BSc Biodiversity & Conservation, Edge effect on ground beetles communities of woodland fragments in an urban environment
Former students
PhD Students
Peter Prince, Acoustic environmental monitoring: a low-cost efficient tool for evaluating human exploitation of tropical forests. (Oct 2015-Present) Co-supervised with Patrick Doncaster and Alex Rogers.
Adham Ashton-Butt, Rapid assessment of biodiversity and biogeochemical processing across tropical landscape gradients. (Jan 2015-Present) Co-supervised with Kelvin Peh and Guy Poppy
MSc students
Jack Patten, 2019, MEnSci Biodiversity & Conservation, Effects of land use change on bats in Belize
Olly Bevan, 2019, MEnSci Biodiversity & Conservation, Effects of land use change on moths in Belize
Kurt Lane, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, Pollinators in oil palm polycultures.
Flavia Olivieri, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, Internet of Things (IoT) in the rainforest: the impact of environmental factors affecting low-power wireless technologies.
Jordan Holmes, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, Bumblebee pollen diet in UK agri-environment landscape.
Yihuan Yao, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, The impact of eco-labelling on consumer choice of palm oil products.
Rupert Powell, 2018, MRes Advanced Biological Sciences, Biodiversity across the University of Southampton campuses.
Elizabeth Henderson, 2018, MSci Zoology, Winter activity and plant associations of Bumblebees.
Alex Hewitt, 2018, MSci Zoology, Comparing bait use in for camera trapping surveys, Belize.
Lisa Jones, 2017, MRes Advanced Biological Sciences, Cultural ecosystem services provided by chalk streams.
Georgina Hollands, 2017, MEcol, The effect of habitat and disturbance on tropical ant diversity. (completed 2017)
Chloe Lewis, 2017, MEcol, Impact of human activities and water quality on the population distribution of Morelet’s crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletti) in northern Guatemala.
Franscs Mullany, 2017, MSci Zoology, Relationship between neotropical fruit-feeding butterfly diversity & habitat structure.
Fraser J Harris, 2016, Strengths and weaknesses of citizen science datasets
Daria Zielinska, 2016, Differences in thermal tolerance between L. niger and L. flavus.
Ahmad Faisal, 2015, MRes Wildlife Conservation, Project: Monitoring White Rhino population inside and outside the Matobo National Park; Andrea Franceschini, 2015, MRes Wildlife Conservation, Project: Human (fire and livestock) impacts on the herbivore community; Christian Smith, 2013, University of Oxford, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management
Project: Nutrients and freshwater macrophytes
Graduate students
2019: Ryan Brazendale, BSc Biodiversity & Conservation, Edge effect of linear clearings on diversity of flying insects; George O’Ferral, BSc Biodiversity & Conservation, Edge effect on ground beetles communities of woodland fragments in an urban environment.
2018: Hannah Gunn, BSc Biology, Diversity and thermal characteristics of ant community in Chilworth conservation area; Alex Hewitt, Arthropod biodiversity and biocontrol in allotments; Rafe Cotton, MSci Biology & Marine Biology, Functional soil properties.
2017: Rachel Neill, Investigating the exotic dung preference of UK coprophage species; Sophie Vines, Water vole Habitat suitability.
2016: Fergus Horspool, Dispersal Agents of Durian Seeds in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo; Chloe Lewis, The impact of autumn temperatures on arthropod activity in an urban landscape.
2015: Alexander S H Dean, The effect of understory on soil feeding rates in oil palm plantations in Riau, Indonesia; Fraser J Harris, Do Ecological Gardening Practices and Householder Knowledge of Ecology Increase the Biodiversity of Private Urban Gardens?; Louise Sharp, Coleopteran morphological traits across in forest and oil palm habitats.
Jack Patten, 2019, MEnSci Biodiversity & Conservation, Effects of land use change on bats in Belize
Olly Bevan, 2019, MEnSci Biodiversity & Conservation, Effects of land use change on moths in Belize
Kurt Lane, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, Pollinators in oil palm polycultures.
Flavia Olivieri, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, Internet of Things (IoT) in the rainforest: the impact of environmental factors affecting low-power wireless technologies.
Jordan Holmes, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, Bumblebee pollen diet in UK agri-environment landscape.
Yihuan Yao, 2018, MSc Environmental Sciences, The impact of eco-labelling on consumer choice of palm oil products.
Rupert Powell, 2018, MRes Advanced Biological Sciences, Biodiversity across the University of Southampton campuses.
Elizabeth Henderson, 2018, MSci Zoology, Winter activity and plant associations of Bumblebees.
Alex Hewitt, 2018, MSci Zoology, Comparing bait use in for camera trapping surveys, Belize.
Lisa Jones, 2017, MRes Advanced Biological Sciences, Cultural ecosystem services provided by chalk streams.
Georgina Hollands, 2017, MEcol, The effect of habitat and disturbance on tropical ant diversity. (completed 2017)
Chloe Lewis, 2017, MEcol, Impact of human activities and water quality on the population distribution of Morelet’s crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletti) in northern Guatemala.
Franscs Mullany, 2017, MSci Zoology, Relationship between neotropical fruit-feeding butterfly diversity & habitat structure.
Fraser J Harris, 2016, Strengths and weaknesses of citizen science datasets
Daria Zielinska, 2016, Differences in thermal tolerance between L. niger and L. flavus.
Ahmad Faisal, 2015, MRes Wildlife Conservation, Project: Monitoring White Rhino population inside and outside the Matobo National Park; Andrea Franceschini, 2015, MRes Wildlife Conservation, Project: Human (fire and livestock) impacts on the herbivore community; Christian Smith, 2013, University of Oxford, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management
Project: Nutrients and freshwater macrophytes
Graduate students
2019: Ryan Brazendale, BSc Biodiversity & Conservation, Edge effect of linear clearings on diversity of flying insects; George O’Ferral, BSc Biodiversity & Conservation, Edge effect on ground beetles communities of woodland fragments in an urban environment.
2018: Hannah Gunn, BSc Biology, Diversity and thermal characteristics of ant community in Chilworth conservation area; Alex Hewitt, Arthropod biodiversity and biocontrol in allotments; Rafe Cotton, MSci Biology & Marine Biology, Functional soil properties.
2017: Rachel Neill, Investigating the exotic dung preference of UK coprophage species; Sophie Vines, Water vole Habitat suitability.
2016: Fergus Horspool, Dispersal Agents of Durian Seeds in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo; Chloe Lewis, The impact of autumn temperatures on arthropod activity in an urban landscape.
2015: Alexander S H Dean, The effect of understory on soil feeding rates in oil palm plantations in Riau, Indonesia; Fraser J Harris, Do Ecological Gardening Practices and Householder Knowledge of Ecology Increase the Biodiversity of Private Urban Gardens?; Louise Sharp, Coleopteran morphological traits across in forest and oil palm habitats.
