Projects/Dissertations

Some examples of research projects undertaken by MRes students.

• Aquatic macrophytes as indicators of the ecological status of Scottish lochs
• Co-evolution of albatrosses and their feather lice
• Cross-species utility of microsatellite markers in parasitic nematodes
• Ecology of basking sharks in the Clyde
• Great skua diets in Orkney and Shetland
• Habitat use by Red Sea reef fish
• Homing behaviour of groupers in Nabq Protected Area, Egypt
• Immunisation of fish in aquaculture against infectious disease
• Impacts of oil pollution around a single-point mooring in Oman
• Interactions between yellow-legged gulls and roseate terns in the Azores
• Long-line bycatch mitigation in the Alaskan halibut fishery
• Male phenotype, antioxidants and fertility in the zebra finch
• Mercury dynamics in Mediterranean marine food-webs
• Modelling capercaillie distribution in Scotland
• Morphological plasticity in the red mangrove in Grand Cayman
• Porcupine feeding preferences in eastern Canada
• Racial distinctiveness of the subspecies of Starling in the Azores
• Retreat of fox rabies in Western Europe after oral vaccination programmes
• Shark distribution and abundance in the Red Sea 
• Signal crayfish in the upper Clyde Catchment
• Spring growth of diatoms under the ice in Svalbard
• Stable isotopes, contaminants and antioxidants in sequentially laid eggs
• Tree-frog ecology in Trinidad