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Jessica J Williams

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Postdoctoral research fellow, UCL

I am a conservation biologist working on the SHEFS project within the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research at UCL. Currently, I am investigating the impacts of land-use change and climate change on biodiversity within South African agricultural areas, and the resilience of nature's benefits to people under such changes. Further to this, I am a STEM Ambassador and thoroughly enjoy organising and getting involved with outreach activities.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University College London (UCL)
  • 2017–2021
    PhD Student, University College London (UCL)

Education

  • 2021 
    University College London, PhD Ecology and Environment
  • 2016 
    Imperial College London, MSc Conservation Science
  • 2014 
    University of Exeter, BSc (Hons) Biology and Animal Behaviour

Publications

  • 2022
    Vertebrate population trends are influenced by interactions between land use, climatic position, habitat loss and climate change, Global Change Biology
  • 2021
    Vertebrate responses to human land use are influenced by their proximity to climatic tolerance limits., Diversity and Distributions
  • 2020
    Mobile marine predators: an understudied source of nutrients to coral reefs in an unfished atoll., Proceedings of the Royal Society B
  • 2020
    Using environmental niche modelling to investigate the importance of ambient temperature in human-crocodilian attack occurrence for two species of crocodilian., Oryx
  • 2020
    Human-dominated land uses favour species affiliated with more extreme climates, especially in the tropics, Ecography
  • 2020
    Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change., Nature Ecology & Evolution.
  • 2020
    Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review., Diversity and Distributions
  • 2019
    Climate and land-use change homogenise terrestrial biodiversity, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and human well-being., Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Professional Memberships

  • British Ecological Society
  • Society for Conservation Biology