Jason Gilchrist
Jason Gilchrist

Dr Jason Gilchrist

Lecturer

 0131 455 2394

  j.gilchrist@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I am a Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences. As an ecologist, I am particularly interested in the social dynamics of animal species, stress physiology, biodiversity and conservation.

I teach behavioural ecology, physiology, taxonomy, biodiversity, evolutionary ecology, and conservation at BSc and MSc level.

My research involves fieldwork, laboratory work, and analytical approaches. Research interests focus on reproductive skew and pup care in banded mongooses, cooperative breeding in grey mouse lemurs, group dynamics of chimpanzees, demographics of social spiders, stress physiology of large ungulates, and effects of wild boar on biodiversity. My research has mostly been based in Africa, specifically Uganda, Madagascar and South Africa, as well as Scotland.

Prior to joining Edinburgh Napier, I conducted my PhD and postdoctoral research on the social dynamics of banded mongoose in Uganda with the University of Cambridge.

Webpage: www.jasongilchrist.co.uk

Research webpage: www.jasongilchrist.co.uk/research.html

Popular science writings: www.jasongilchrist.co.uk/magazine_articles.html

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Evidence of oxidative shielding of offspring in a wild mammal

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Vitikainen, E. I. K., Cant, M. A., Sanderson, J. L., Mitchell, C., Nichols, H. J., Marshall, H. H., …Blount, J. D. (2016)
Evidence of oxidative shielding of offspring in a wild mammal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00058
Oxidative damage has been proposed as a potential mechanism underlying a life history tradeoff between survival and reproduction. However, evidence that reproduction is associ...

Civil war among the mongooses...and why it's all about sexual success.

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Gilchrist, J. (2016)
Civil war among the mongooses...and why it's all about sexual success

Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses

Journal Article
Thompson, F. J., Marshall, H. H., Sanderson, J. L., Vitikainen, E. I. K., Nichols, H. J., Gilchrist, J. S., …Cant, M. A. (2016)
Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1826), 20152607. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2607
In many vertebrate societies, forced eviction of group members is an important determinant of population structure, but little is known about what triggers eviction. Three mai...

Only a Jurassic Park-style intervention can now save the northern white rhino

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Gilchrist, J. (2015)
Only a Jurassic Park-style intervention can now save the northern white rhino
No abstract available.

Spy-cam rhinos to take on poachers with devices hidden in their horns

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Gilchrist, J. (2015)
Spy-cam rhinos to take on poachers with devices hidden in their horns
No abstract available.

Chopping off the rhino’s horn and the war on wildlife crime

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Gilchrist, J. (2014)
Chopping off the rhino’s horn and the war on wildlife crime
No abstract available.

The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses.

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Bell, M. B. V., Nichols, H. J., Gilchrist, J., Cant, M. A., & Hodge, S. J. (2012)
The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, 619-624. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1093
Social species show considerable variation in the extent to which dominant females suppress subordinate reproduction. Much of this variation may be influenced by the cost of a...

Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses

Journal Article
Cant, M. A., Hodge, S. J., Bell, M. B. V., Gilchrist, J., & Nichols, H. J. (2010)
Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, 2219-2226. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2097
Considerable research has focused on understanding variation in reproductive skew in cooperative animal societies, but the pace of theoretical development has far outstripped ...

Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder

Journal Article
Gilchrist, J. (2008)
Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 2491-2498. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0597
Competition between young of the same brood or litter is of particular interest in the fields of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, because the competing individuals are li...

Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose

Journal Article
Gilchrist, J., Otali, E., & Mwanguhya, F. (2008)
Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose. Journal of Zoology, 275, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00405.x
In research on parental care and cooperative breeding an issue is whether caregivers recognize individual young and therefore preferentially care for those young that will max...