Principal Investigator

Dr. Jonathan Millett
j.millett[at]lboro.ac.uk

Jon is a plant ecologist who is particularly interested in the cycling of nitrogen within plants and between plants and other organisms. He works on trees in forest ecosystems and on carnivorous plants in bog ecosystems and uses stable isotopes to provide insight into the movement of nitrogen within and between organisms.

Jon is currently in the process of establishing the Loughborough University Research Forest (LURF). This will consist of a set of permanent monitoring plots in woodlands on Loughborugh University campus.
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Graduate Students

Joni Cook (2010-2013)

Joni is investigating the physiological ecology of carnivorous plants. Joni’s  focus is on impacts on the process of attracting and capturing insect prey, and the uptake of nutrients from the prey once captured. Joni measured prey capture and nitrogen uptake in Drosera rotundifolia at two contrasting bogs in Wales and the Welsh borders. She is currently undertaking a greenhouse study to investigate in detail the impacts of nutrient availability on the investment in carnivory for this plant and two contrasting carnivorous plants (Pinguicula vulgaris and Dionea muscipula).

Andrew Pledger (2010-2013)
(Primary supervisor: Prof. Steve Rice) 

Andy is looking at how the behaviour of bottom feeding fish (Barbel) affects the shape of the stream bed and the impact that this has on the hydrology of the stream. Andy had used video analysis of feeding behaviour to inform ex-situ experiments in flumes.

MSc Dissertation students

Summer Undergraduate
Research Students 

Collaborators