Freshwater Networks Laboratory

A lab group based in the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University

Publications

Tavella, J., Windsor, F.M., Oreja, F., Rother, D.C., Monsterolo, M., Palacios, T.P., Tognetti, P., Omacini, M., Guimarāes Jr., P.R., Evans, D.M. & Devoto, M.D. (2025). Herbicide application indirectly affects non-crop plant-pollinator networks in agroecosystems. Journal of Applied Ecology, 62(9), 2237-2248. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70113

Reynolds, M., Windsor, F.M., Perkins, S. & Cable, J. (2025). Parasites alter interaction patterns in fish social networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292(2047). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0793

de Lima, V.M.M., de Medonça-Filho, J.C.G., Lima, M.K. de O., Honório, L.C.B., Falkenberg, J.M., Yamada, F.H., Yamada, P. de O.F., Lustosa-Costa, S.Y., Ramos, T.P.A., Teixera de Mello, F., Menezes, R.F., Windsor, F.M., & Lacerda, A.C.F. (2025). Unveiling new data on fish parasite diversity in reservoirs of the Brazilian semi-arid. Journal of Helminthology, 99, e56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X25000288

Rother, D.C., Cosmo, L.G., Tavella, J., Windsor, F.M., Devoto, M., Evans, D.M. & Guimarães Jr, P.R. (2025). Spatial networks reveal how forest cover decreases the spread of agricultural pests. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 23(2), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2025.03.006

Clitherow, L.R., Sønderland, S.H., Windsor, F.M. & Milner, A.M. (2024). Chapter Three – Variation in the diet of juvenile salmonids across a gradient of stream development in Glacier Bay, Alaska. In: Dumbrell, A.J. & Milner, A.M. eds. Advances in Ecological Research, 71, 85-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2024.10.005

Windsor, F.M., Wilkes, M.A., Brown, L.E., Robertson, A.L. & Milner, A.M. (2024). Chapter Five – Invertebrate functional trait variation along successional gradients in stream ecosystems. In: Dumbrell, A.J. & Milner, A.M. eds. Advances in Ecological Research, 71, 139-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2024.10.001

Milner, A.M., Sønderland, S.H., Brown, L.E., Clitherow, L.R., Lawrence, E., Gloyne-Phillips, I., Finn, D.S., Flory, E., Klaar, M.J., Malone, E., Kieran, M., Robertson, A.L., Veal, A.J., Wilkes, M.A. & Windsor, F.M. (2024). Chapter Six – Looking forward; A synthesis of stream research undertaken in Glacier Bay. In: Dumbrell, A.J. & Milner, A.M. eds. Advances in Ecological Research, 71, 171-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2024.10.004

Cuff, J.P., Labonte, D. & Windsor, F.M. (2024). Understanding trophic interactions in a warming world by bridging foraging ecology and biomechanics with network science. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 64(2), 306-321. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae070

Cuff, J.P., Evans, D.M., Vaughan, I.P., Wilder, S., Tercel, M.P.T.G. & Windsor, F.M. (2024). Networking nutrients: how nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 93(8), 974-988. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14124

Cuff, J.P., Tercel, M.P.T.G., Windsor, F.M., Hawthorne, B.S.J., Hambäck, P.A., Bell, J.R., Symondson, W.O.C. & Vaughan, I.P. (2024) Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks. Ecological Entomology, 49(3), 418-432. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13315

Windsor, F.M. (2023). Expanding network ecology in freshwater ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(8), 1575-1588. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13947

Aspin, T.W.H., Khamis, K., Matthews, T.J., Trimmer, M., Williams, G.M.D., Windsor, F.M., Woodward, G. & Ledger, M.E. (2023). Extra-terrestrials: Supraseasonal drought and the diversity of invertebrates colonising dry streambeds. Biology Letters, 19(11). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0381

Cuff, J.P, Windsor, F.M., Evans, D.M, Tercel, M.P.T.G., Bell, J., Symondson, W.O.C. and Vaughan, I.P. (2023) Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice. Ecography, 2023(7), e06737. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06737

Windsor, F.M., van Hoogan, J., Routh, D., Crowther, T.W. & Evans, D.M. (2022). Using ecological networks to answer questions in global biogeography and applied ecology. Journal of Biogeography, 50(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14447