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Research At Durham

Does interspecific behavioural interference limit the ability of species to range shifts? I workon a genus of damselflies,Hetaerina, where species engage and experience varying levels ofaggressive and reproductive interference. Do the ranges ofHetaerinaspecies that experience lower levels of interspecific interference expand more rapidly?

Journal Article

• Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non‐Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies ( Hetaerina spp.)
  
  Patterson, C., Brennan, A., Cowling, H., González‐Rodríguez, A., Grether, G. F., Mendoza Cuenca, L., Springer, M., Vega‐Sánchez, Y. M., & Drury, J. (2025). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non‐Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies ( Hetaerina spp.). Molecular Ecology. Advance online publication, Article e17797. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17797
• Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions
  
  Patterson, C. W., & Drury, J. P. (2024). Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions. Biological Reviews, 98(6), 2012-2027. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12993
• A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia)
  
  Patterson, C. W., Bonillas-Monge, E., Brennan, A., Grether, G. F., Mendoza-Cuenca, L., Tucker, R., Vega-Sánchez, Y. M., & Drury, J. (2024). A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia). Journal of Heredity, 115(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad070
• A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night
  
  Sanders, D., Frago, E., Kehoe, R., Patterson, C., & Gaston, K. J. (2021). A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01322-x
• The status of Clibanarius erythropus after a recent range expansion to Great Britain, with the highest latitude recording of a gravid individual
  
  Patterson, C., Slater, M., Early, R., & Laing, C. (2020). The status of Clibanarius erythropus after a recent range expansion to Great Britain, with the highest latitude recording of a gravid individual. Marine Biodiversity Records, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-020-00186-1