Peter J. Mayhew is a British biologist at the University of York in the United Kingdom. He graduated with a MA in Zoology from University of Oxford, and then undertook a PhD in insect behavioural ecology at Imperial College supervised by Charles Godfray from 1993 to 1996. [1] He is the lead author of a study showing a long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination, and extinction in the fossil record. [2] This study demonstrated that biodiversity tends to be relatively low during greenhouse phases in Earth history and that extinction rates (including mass extinctions) tend to be higher. [3] On the basis of this work he was nominated as one of the "Great Britons of 2007". [4] He is also author of a textbook on evolutionary ecology. [1]
References
- ^ a b Mayhew, Peter J (2006). Discovering Evolutionary Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857060-8. OCLC: 62133413 .
- ^ Mayhew, P. J.; Jenkins, G. B.; Benton, T. M. (7 January 2008). "A long term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 275 (1630). London: Royal Society: 47–53. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1302. PMC 2562410. PMID 17956842.
- ^ Borenstein, Seth (24 October 2007). "Warmer seas spark extinction worries". Toronto Star. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
- ^ "Great Britons". Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2007.