The Evolutionary Ecology of Hoverflies
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Description: Francis Gilbert's research on the Syrphidae.
The evolutionary ecology of hoverflies Evolutionary ecology of hoverflies My research programme in this field mostly concerns the evolutionary biology of the hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae), a very large group of flower-visiting flies whose diverse larval feeding strategies are particularly interesting from an evolutionary standpoint. Using comparative and experimental approaches, I concentrate on morphology, life-histories, feeding specialization and mimetic communities. Funded initially by a Leverhulme fellowship, I am still struggling to complete a monograph on the evolutionary biology of the Syrphidae. This summarises and reinterprets information from more than 5300 published works on the family, most of which I have scanned as pdfs; much of this work will be published also as papers. The databases that abstract the information from the literature will be placed on the Web.
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