Editorial Board - Psyche: A Journal of Entomology Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust - ACCT. ACCT was founded to promote and co-ordinate conservation and research work on threatened water beetles. Aquatic beetles are a diverse group, and are excellent indicators of habitat quality, age, and 'naturalness'. Around 400 species of British beetle live in water for a significant proportion of their lives, including the familiar diving beetles. Many species have shown significant and dramatic contractions in range since the mid 20th century, in response to a variety of factors, particularly agricultural intensification and associated drainage of wetlands and increases in diffuse pollution, leading to eutrophication. (Secretary). Ponds Advisory Council. International body concerned with the biology and conservation of small water bodies. Ponds harbour the vast majority of regional aquatic biodiversity in most countries, but are often ignored by ecologists, who study the larger (and often ecologically simpler!) lakes and rivers instead. (Member).
Balfour-Browne Club. Aquatic Coleoptera World specialist group, with over 200 members, who, like water beetles, are distributed on all continents except Antarctica. Co-ordinated from the UK. (Committee Member). Grant Refereefor NERC, BBSRC, Austrian Science Foundation.
Invited Referee for numerous journals, including:Molecular Ecology, Proceeding of the Royal Society Series B, Journal of Applied Ecology, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Freshwater Biology, Conservation Genetics, Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, Functional Ecology, Hydrobiologia, Aquatic Conservation, Ecology Letters, Vie et Milieu, Annales Zoologici Fennici, Archive fur Hydrobiologie, Aquatic Insects, Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, Biological Conservation, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Estuaries, Journal of Biogeography, Ecological Entomology.
Oniscus asellus occidentalis Bilton, 1994 Terrestrial isopod (woodlouse), known from the UK, Ireland and France, first recognized in Dartmoor woodlands. Frequently hydridizes with the common Oniscus asellus asellus where the two meet.
Hydraena zezerensis Diaz-Pazos & Bilton, 1995 A hydraenid water beetle with elaborate male secondary sexual characters - endemic to a single headwater stream at the top of a glacial valley in Portugal's highest mountain massif, the Serra Estrela. Still known from knowhere else - one of the rarest water beetles in Europe.
Agabus picotae Foster & Bilton, 1997 Diving beetle, endemic to SW Portugal and Spain. Associated with wet rock faces beside headwater streams.
Hydraena hosseiniorum Bilton & Jach, 1998 Hydraenid water beetle endemic to the Zagros Mountains in western Iran - the most easterly member of its group.
Stictonectes rebeccae Bilton, 2012 A diving beetle endemic to the north and west of Spain and Portugal.
Discozantaena occidentalis Bilton & Perkins, 2012 A small 'water' beetle which has become secondarily terrestrial, living in damp litter by water. Known only from a single waterhole in West Coast National park, on the Western Cape of South Africa.
Pneuminion fontinalis Bilton & Perkins, 2012 Another small water beetle, restricted to permanent trickles of water, running like condensation on a window pane, in the high mountains near Paarl in the Western Cape of South Africa.
Crenitis bicolor Bilton, 2013 A hydrophilid water beetle so far only known from the high Kamiesberg in the Northern Cape of South Africa, an outlying fragment of the fynbos biome in arid Namaqualand.
Approximately 20 additional water beetles are in the system........
New animals named after me
Armadilloniscus biltoni Taiti & Ferrara, 1989 A terrestrial isopod (woodlouse) found in the entrance to a sea cave on the Togian Islands, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Althepus biltoni Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995 A spider from forests on the Togian Islands, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Neptosternus biltoni Hendrich and Balke, 1997 A small diving beetle from forest streams on one of the Togian Islands, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The adjacent island had a different species, also new to science at the time.
Deronectes biltoni Fery & Hosseinie, 1998 A diving beetle endemic to mountains in northern Iran, close to the Caspian Sea.
Helophorus biltoni Angus, Mahdizadeh & Hosseinie, 2005 A small crawling water beetle endemic to the Zagros Mountains in western Iran. It has close relatives on the Golan Heights, and in Spain.
Hydraena biltoni Jach & Diaz-Pazos, 2012 A small water beetle currently known only from a handful of places in central Montenegro. Closely related to the widespread Hydraena morio, which also occurs in the region, but not, so far, in the same localities.
Another water beetle, a millipede and a centipede are currently on their way..........
Teaching interests I am interested in a range of questions related to the origin and distribution of the recent biota, particularly using aquatic invertebrates as models. Much of my teaching reflects my research interests, covering topics such as macroecology and biogeography, aquatic conservation, biological species concepts and speciation, and arthropod zoology. I teach on courses to all three undergraduate years, and supervise a range of BSc and MSc/MRes projects each year.
Stage 1
BIOL1403 Evolution and Behaviour - An introduction to evolution, genetics and animal behaviour. I co-ordinate this course, and teach sections on evolutionary genetics, the origin and maintenance of sex, species concepts and human evolution. Includes a practical session, currently on species boundaries and natural hybridization.
BIOL1403 Biodiversity - Comparative biology of the five kingdoms. I cover the arthropods, the most successful organisms ever to have existed on earth, surveying their past and present diversity, comparative zoology, and interactions with humans. Includes a practical session where a range of these animals can be seen first hand.
BIOL1406 Natural History - Animal and plant systematics, identification and natural history. I assist with freshwater invertebrate section of the course.
BIOL1101 Ecosystems - Introduction to the world's ecosystems, supported by a residential fieldcourse, currently in Brittany, France. I devised this fieldcourse, and still frequently attend it. It provides an opportunity to conduct field biology projects in a range of marine and coastal habitats with high biodiversity.
Stage 2
BIOL2113 Ecology - An up-to-date exploration of the fundamental principles of population and community ecology. I teach community ecology from a large-scale, or macroecological, perspective, examining the assembly of communities, island biogeography, adaptive radiation, biodiversity and ecosystem function, and asking why most species are rare, and why there are there are more species of organisms in the tropics?
BIOL2103 Marine Biology and Coastal Ecology Fieldcourse - an exploration of biodiversity in a coastal setting, currently in one of the World's Biodiversity Hotspots, on the western Cape of South Africa.
Stage 3
BIOL3106 Speciation and Diversity - What is a species?How do new species originate?What generates and maintains the diversity of life?How do we quantify this biodiversity? What are the ecological and evolutionary processes which underpin global patterns in biodiversity?Does biodiversity matter?An up-to-date exploration of the nature and generation of biological diversity, examining model taxa from a wide range of habitats and groups. I co-ordinate this course and teach biological species concepts and speciation.
I supervise a range of projects in aquatic biology, ecology and evolution - typically 6-10 students per year. Module leader for:
BIOL1403 Evolution and Behaviour
BIOL3106 Speciation and Diversity
First year tutor
Research interests My work addresses a range of questions in aquatic biology, using both freshwater and marine organisms as model systems, but with a particular focus on water beetles. Much of my research focuses on attempts to understand the geographical distribution and evolutionary differentiation of organisms at a number of spatial scales. Specific areas of interest include: Macroecology and macrophysiology of aquatic invertebrates. What determines relative geographical range size - why are most species rare? Testing hypotheses of rarity, using selected clades of aquatic insects as model systems. Investigation of thermal tolerance across clades containing both widespread and restricted endemic taxa. Unravelling the mechanisms underlying differences in thermal tolerance. Ecology and conservation of temporary waters. The invertebrate assemblages of temporary and fluctuating water bodies. Exploration of factors structuring communities at regional and local scales. The use of aquatic insects as biodiversity surrogates and indicator taxa in conservation. Dispersal biology of aquatic invertebrates. Causes and consequences of dispersal in aquatic invertebrates. Ecology and conservation of aquatic Coleoptera (water beetles). Evolution and ecology of aquatic beetles. Sexual conflict in diving beetles. Conservation biology of threatened taxa. Use of aquatic beetles as surrogates in ecosystem assessment and monitoring. Water beetle systematics and phylogeny. Phylogeography of aquatic taxa, with particular focus on the Postglacial recolonisation of northern Europe and the origins of endemic lineages. Estuarine Biodiversity. The biodiversity of tidally influenced lower river reaches. Phylogeography of putative cosmopolitan taxa (nematodes).
Current projects include:
What determines a species' geographical range? Physiology-dispersal-range size relationships in European water beetles. Collaborators: P. Calosi & J.I. Spicer (UoP); Ignacio Ribera (CSIC, Barcelona); Andres Millan (Universidad de Murcia). Oxygen limitation in aquatic arthropods. Does oxygen limitation set thermal limits in aquatic arthropods, and does respiratory mode influence this? In collaboration with Dr Wilco Verberk, Marie Curie Fellow, UoP.
Conservation biology of threatened aquatic beetles Ecology and conservation of UK Biodiversity Action Plan species. In association with the Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust.
Sexual conflict in diving beetles Inter-relationships between male and female morphology in sexually dimorphic taxa; evolution and biogeography of sexual dimorphism in dytiscids.
Other research
Current PhD Students
John Thorpe-Dixon. Biodiversity of the Sadas, Western Ghats, India. (Supervised with Mairi Knight).
Balbina Ramsay. Tardigrade spatial ecology in the Andes. (Supervised with Simon Rundle).
Nigel Marley. Taxonomy of Tardigrades. (Advisor with Simon Rundle). PhD via staff candidature.
Recent Lab Visitors
Dr Pedro Abellán (University de Murcia)
Dr David Sanches-Fernandez (University de Murcia)
Dr Maragrita Florencio (Doñana Biological Station, Seville)
Dr Lucy Kelly. Dispersal, Genetic Differentiation and Community Composition of Insular Stream Invertebrates. (Supervised with Simon Rundle). Awarded 2001. Dr Louise McAbendroth. Mediterranean Temporary Ponds in the UK: Ecology, Status and Management. (Supervised with Simon Rundle and Andy Foggo ). Awarded 2004. Dr Punyasloke Bhadury. Molecular resolution of marine nematode biodiversity: Development of a rapid assessment technique. (Supervised with Mel Austin & Gary Smerdon, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and John Lambshead, Natural History Museum, London). Awarded 2006. Dr Ena Mata-Zayas.The distribution of phylogenetic diversity of mammals in Mexico and its implications for conservation. (Supervised with Miguel Franco). Awarded 2007. Dr Victor Aguirre-Hidalgo. Demographic and genetic diversity of the Mexican black iguana Ctenosaura pectinata. (Supervised with Miguel Franco). Awarded 2008. Dr Sonia Fontani. Genetic biodiversity of the European barnacle Chthalamus montagui. (Supervised with John Bishop). Awarded 2009.
Dr Tony Bicknell. Population biology of Leach's storm petrel. (Supervised with Steven Votier and Mairi Knight). Awarded 2011.
Grants & contracts
2011-2013 Evolution of the thermal tolerance in Pleistocene range expansions of aquatic Coleoptera from Mediterranean refugia Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation PI: Ignacio Ribera, Barcelona, Spain. Co-PIs: David Bilton (University of Plymouth, UK), Josefina Garrido (Universidad de Vigo), Luis Felipe Valladares (Universidad de León)
2011-2013 Integrating ecophysiological and evolutionary aspects to undersatnd past, present and future distributions of Iberian hypersaline beetles Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation PI: Josefa Velasco García, Murcia, Spain. Co-PIs: David Bilton (University of Plymouth, UK), Andres Millan(Universidad de Murcia), Ignacio Ribera (CSIC, Barcelona)
2010-2012 RESPIRE - Climate-driven oxygen limitation in freshwater macroinvertebrates European Union Marie Curie Fellowship (Euro 180,103) for Dr Wilco Verberk 2009-2011 Oxygen deficiency in stream ectotherms Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Rubicon Fellowship (Euro 97,060) for Dr Wilco Verberk
2009-2012 THESEUS: Innovative technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate European Union (Euro 250,000) Co-PI with R.C. Thompson, S.D. Rundle & M Hanley
2007-2010 Population genetics of grazing marsh invertebrates Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (£38,000) PI
2007-2010 Biodiversity of lower, tidally-influenced river reaches Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (£128,000) Co-PI with S.D. Rundle & M.J. Attrill
2007-2010 The evolution of the size of the geographical range as a key factor in the generation of biodiversity. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation PI: Ignacio Ribera, Barcelona, Spain. Co-PIs: David Bilton (University of Plymouth, UK), Josefina Garrido (Universidad de Vigo), Juan Angel Díaz-Pazos (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Luis Felipe Valladares (Universidad de León), Michael Balke (Zoologische Staatssammlung München). 2008-2009 Thermal adaptation in ectotherms: linking life history, physiology, behaviour and genetics European Science Foundation ThermAdapt Programme, collaboration Short Visit grant (working with Ignacio Ribera, Barcelona) (Euro 750) PI
2006-2008 What determines a species' geographic range? Physiology and range size relationships in European diving beetles. Leverhulme Trust (£51,000) PI
2005-2008 Neutral theories to explain genetic diversity of aquatic insects NERC (£272,000) Co-PI with A.P. Vogler & T.G. Barraclough, Natural History Museum & Imperial College, London
1999-2004 Status, ecology and management of Mediterranean Temporary Ponds in the UK English Nature & UoP (£32,000 - £18,000 each) PI & DoS (supervised with Simon Rundle) 1999-2000 Molecular solutions to previously intractable aspects of trophic ecology NERC new investigator’s grant (£25,654) PI
Publications
I have published over 100 papers to date, largely concerning aquatic ecology and biogeography Selected papers since 2001
Alarie, Y. & Bilton, D.T. 2012. The larva of Hydroporus zimmermanni J. Müller, 1926 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae), with notes on its ecology and a review of described larvae of Hydroporus Clairville. The Coleopterists Bulletin66:81-91.
Bilton, D.T. & Perkins, P. 2012. Two new species of Parhydraenini from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa3342: 51–59.
Bicknell, A.W.J., Knight, M.E., Bilton, D.T., Reid, J.B. Burke, T. & Votier, S.C. 2012. Population genetic structure and long-distance dispersal among seabird populations: Implications for colony persistence. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05558.x.
Arribas P., Abellán P., Velasco J., Bilton D.T., Millán A. & Sánchez-Fernández D. 2012. Evaluating drivers of vulnerability to climate change: a guide for insect conservation strategies.Global Change Biology18: 2135–2146.
Bergsten, J., Bilton, D.T., Fujisawa, T., Elliott, M., Monaghan, M.T., Balke, M., Hendrich, L., Geijer, J., Herrmann J., Foster, G.N., Ribera, I., Nilsson, A.N., Barraclough, T.G. & Vogler, A.P. 2012. The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding. Systematic Biology doi: 10.1093/sysbio/sys037.
Bilton, D.T. 2012. Stictonectes rebeccae sp. nov. from the Iberian peninsula, with notes on its phylogenetic position (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Zootaxa3188: 42–54.
Calosi, P.C., Bilton, D.T., Spicer, J.I., Verberk, W.C.E.P., Atfield, A. & Garland, T. Jr. 2012. The comparative biology of diving in two genera of European Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Journal of Evolutionary Biology25: 329–341.
Arribas, P., Velasco, J., Abellán, P., Sánchez-Fernandez, D., Andújar, C., Calosi, P. Millán, A., Ribera, I. & Bilton, D.T. 2011. Dispersal ability rather than ecological tolerance drives differences in range size between lentic and lotic water beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Journal of Biogeography doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02641.x.
Verberk, W.C.E.P. & Bilton, D.T. 2011. Can oxygen set thermal limits in an insect and drive gigantism? PLoS ONE 6:e22610.
Verberk, W.C.E.P., Bilton, D.T., Calosi, P. & Spicer, J.I. 2011. Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns. Ecology92: 1565–1572. Evaluated as a 'must read' by the Faculty of 1000
Bicknell, A.W.J., Campbell, M., Knight, M.E., Bilton, D.T., Newton, J. & Votier, S.C. 2011. Effects of formalin preservation on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope signatures in Calanoid copepods: Implications for the use of Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey samples in stable isotope analyses. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectroscopy2011: 1794-1800.
Picazo, F., Bilton, D.T., J.L. Moreno, J.L., Sánchez-Fernández, D. & Millán, A. 2011. Water beetle biodiversity in Mediterranean standing waters: assemblage composition, environmental drivers and nestedness patterns. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00144.x.
Florencio, M., Díaz-Paniagua, C., Serrano, L. & Bilton, D. T. 2011.Spatio-temporal nested patterns in macroinvertebrate assemblages across a pond network with a wide hydroperiod range. Oecologia166:469–483.
Guitiérrez-Estrada, J.C. & Bilton, D.T. 2010. A heuristic approach to predicting water beetle diversity in temporary and fluctuating waters. Ecological Modelling in press.
Sánchez-Fernández, D., Calosi, P., Atfield, A., Arribas, P., Velasco, J., Spicer, J.I. Millán, A. & Bilton, D.T. 2010. Reduced salinities compromise the thermal tolerance of hypersaline specialist diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Physiological Entomology in press.
Calosi, P., Bilton, D.T., Spicer, J.I., Votier, S. & Atfield, A. 2010. What determines a species' geographical range? Thermal biology and latitudinal range size relationships in European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 194–204. JAE's second most highly cited paper of the year
Gaston K.J., Chown S.L., Calosi P., Bernardo J., Bilton D.T., Clarke A., Clusella-Trullas S., Ghalambor C.K., Konarzewski M., Peck L.S., Porter W.P., Pörtner H.O., Rezende E.L., Schulter P.M., Spicer J.I., Stillman J., Terblanche J.S. & van Kleunen M. 2009. Macrophysiology: a conceptual re-unification. American Naturalist174: 595–612.
Bhadury, P., Bridge, P.D., Austen, M.C., Bilton, D.T. & Smerdon, G.R. 2009. Detection of fungal 18S rRNA sequences in conjunction with marine nematode 18S rRNA amplicons. Aquatic Biology5: 149-155.
Bilton, D.T., McAbendroth, L.C., Nicolet, P., Bedford, A., Rundle, S.D., Foggo, A. & Ramsay, P.M. 2009. Ecology and conservation status of temporary and fluctuating ponds in two areas of southern England. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19: 134-146.
Sánchez-Fernández, D., Bilton, D.T., Abellán, P., Picazo, F., Ribera, I., Velasco, J. & Millán, A. 2009. Los coleópteros acuáticos como indicadores de la biodiversidad. Quercus275: 22-27.
Bilton, D.T., Thompson, A. & Foster, G.N. 2008. Inter- and intra-sexual dimorphism in the diving beetle Hydroporus memnonius Nicolai (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 685-697.
Bhadury, P., Austen, M.C., Bilton, D.T., Lambshead, P.J.D., Rogers, A.D. & Smerdon, G.R. 2008. Evaluation of combined morphological and molecular techniques for marine nematode (Terschellingia spp.) identification. Marine Biology154: 509-518.
Sánchez-Fernández, D., Bilton, D.T., Abellán, P., Ribera, I., Velasco, J. & Millán, A. 2008. Are the endemic water beetles of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands effectively protected? Biological Conservation141: 1612-1627.
Calosi, P., Bilton, D.T. & Spicer, J.I. 2008. Thermal tolerance, acclimatory capacity and vulnerability to global climate change. Biology Letters4: 99-102.
Calosi, P., Bilton, D.T., Spicer, J.I. & Atfield, A. 2008. Thermal tolerance and geographic range size in the Agabus brunneus group of European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Journal of Biogeography35: 295-305.
Calosi, P., Bilton, D.T. & Spicer, J.I. 2007. The diving response of the diving beetle Ilybius montanus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): the effects of temperature and acidification. Journal of Zoology 273: 289–297.
Foggo, A., Bilton, D.T.& Rundle, S.D. 2007. Do developmental mode and dispersal shape abundance-occupancy relationships in marine macroinvertebrates? Journal of Animal Ecology76: 695-702.
Rundle, S.D., Bilton, D.T., Abbott, J.C. & Foggo,A. 2007.Range size in North American Enallagma damselflies correlates with range size. Freshwater Biology52: 471-477.
Bhadury, P., Austen, M.C., Bilton, D.T., Lambshead, P.J.D., Rogers, A.D. & Smerdon, G.R. 2007. Exploitation of archived marine nematodes- a hot lysis DNA extraction protocol for molecular studies Zoologica Scripta36: 93-98.
Bhadury, P., Austen, M.C., Bilton, D.T., Lambshead, P.J.D., Rogers, A.D. & Smerdon, G.R. 2006. Development and evaluation of a DNA barcoding approach for rapid identification of marine nematodes. Marine Ecology Progress Series320: 1-9.
Abellan, P., Bilton, D.T., Millan, A., Sanchez-Fernandez, D. and Ramsay, P.M. 2006. Can taxonomic distinctness assess anthropogenic impacts in inland waters? A case study from a Mediterranean river basin. Freshwater Biology51: 1744-1756.
Bhadury, P., Austen, M.C., Bilton, D.T., Lambshead, P.J.D., Rogers, A.D. & Smerdon, G.R. 2006. Molecular detection of marine nematodes from environmental samples- overcoming eukaryotic interference. Aquatic Microbial Ecology44: 97-103.
Bilton, D.T., McAbendroth, L., Bedford, A. & Ramsay, P.M. 2006. How wide to cast the net? Cross-taxon congruence of species richness, community similarity and indicator taxa in ponds. Freshwater Biology51: 578-590.
Biggs, J., Bilton, D.T., Williams, P., Nicolet, P., Briggs, L., Eeles, B. & Whitfield, M. 2005. Temporary ponds of eastern Poland: an initial assessment of importance for nature conservation. Archives de Sciences57: 23-41.
Alarie, Y. & Bilton, D.T. 2005. Larval morphology of Aspidytidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) and its phylogenetic implications. Annals of the Entomological Society of America98: 417-430.
Bhadury, P., Austen, M.C., Bilton, D.T., Lambshead, P.J.D., Rogers, A.D. & Smerdon, G.R. 2005. Combined morphological and molecular analysis of individual nematodes through short-term preservation in formalin. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 965-968.
McAbendroth, L., Ramsay, P.M., Foggo, A., Rundle, S.D. & Bilton, D.T. 2005. Does macrophyte structural complexity drive invertebrate diversity, biomass and body size distributions? Oikos111: 279-290.
McAbendroth, L., Foggo, A., Rundle, S.D. & Bilton, D.T. 2005. Unravelling nestedness and spatial pattern in pond assemblages. Journal of Animal Ecology. 74: 41-49.
Ribera, I., Bilton, D.T., Balke, M. & Hendrich, L. 2003. Evolution, mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and systematic position of the Macaronesian endemic Hydrotarsus Falkenstrom (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Systematic Entomology28:1-16.
Foggo, A., Rundle, S.D. & Bilton, D.T. 2003. The net result: evaluating species richness extrapolation techniques for pond invertebrates. Freshwater Biology48: 1-9.
Ribera, I., Bilton, D.T. & Vogler, A. 2003. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of Meladema diving beetles on the Atlantic Islands and in the Mediterranean basin. Molecular Ecology12: 153-167.
Kelly, L.C., Rundle, S.D. & Bilton, D.T 2002. Genetic population structure and dispersal in Atlantic Island caddisflies. Freshwater Biology47: 1642-1650.
Rundle, S.D., Foggo, A., Choisel, V. & Bilton, D.T.. 2002. Are distribution patterns linked to dispersal mechanism? An investigation using pond invertebrate assemblages. Freshwater Biology 4: 1571-1581.
Villalobos, L.C. Ribera, I. & Bilton, D.T. 2001. First data on Iberian Nematomorpha, with redescription of Gordius aquaticus Linnaeus, G. plicatulus Heinze, Gordionus wolterstorffii (Camerano) and Paragordius tricuspidatus (Dufour). Contributions to Zoology70: 73-84.
Alarie, Y. & Bilton, D.T. 2001. Larval morphology of Hydrotarsus Falkenstrom: Generic characteristics, description of H. compunctus (Wollaston), and analysis of relationships with other members of the tribe Hydroporini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae). Coleopterists Bulletin55: 341-350.
Kelly, L.C., Bilton, D.T. & Rundle, S.D. 2001. Population structure and dispersal in the Canary Island caddisfly Mesophylax aspersus (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae). Heredity86: 370-377.
Bilton, D.T., Foggo, A. & Rundle, S.D. 2001. Size, permanence and the proportion of predators in ponds. Archiv fur Hydrobiologia151: 451-458.
Some papers from back before 2001......
Bilton, D.T. 1993. Genetic population structure of the Postglacial relict diving beetle Hydroporus glabriusculus Aube (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Heredity69: 503-511.
Bilton, D.T. 1994 Intraspecific variation in the terrestrial isopod Oniscus asellus Linnaeus, 1758 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society110: 325-354.
Bilton, D.T. 1994. Phylogeography and recent historical biogeography of the diving beetle Hydroporus glabriusculus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in the british Isles and Scandinavia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society51: 293-307.
Bilton, D.T., Mirol, P., Masceretti, S., Fredga, K., Zima, J. & Searle, J.B. 1998. Mediterranean Europe as an area of endemism for small mammals, rather than a source for northwards postglacial colonisation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B265: 1219-1226.
Bilton, D.T., Goode, D & Mallet, J. 1999 Genetic differentiation and natural hybridization between two forms of the common woodlouse, Oniscus asellus Linnaeus, 1758. Heredity82: 462-469
Reports & invited lectures
Invited/keynote conference presentations since 2001
Royal Entomological Society Insects and Climate Change meeting, Rothamstead 2011. Invited speaker.
European Congress of Entomology, Budapest, Hungary 2010. Aquatic Insects special session. Invited speaker.
Royal Entomological Society of London Annual Meeting, Plymouth 2008 Session Chair: Aquatic Entomology.
First International Macrophysiology Meeting, Plymouth 2008. Invited speaker.
Royal Entomological Society of London Annual Meeting, Edinburgh 2007 Session chair: Population Genetics.
British Ecological Society Symposium ‘Body Size in Aquatic Ecosystems’ Northampton, UK 2005. Invited contributor.
Conservation and Monitoring of Pond Biodiversity, Geneva, 2004. Invited speaker.
MANSCAPE Conference, Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, Brussels, 2003. Invited speaker.
European Temporary Ponds Conference, Birmingham 2001. Invited speaker.
10th National Biology Conference, Shiraz, Iran, 2001. Invited speaker.
Recent Invited lectures at Universities/Institutes include: University of York (UK), University of Exeter (UK), Queen Mary, University of London (UK), University of Murcia (Spain), University of Tehran (Iran), University of Shiraz (Iran), Uppsala University (Sweden), Doñana Biological Station, Seville (Spain), Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) (Barcelona, Spain).
Conferences organised Royal Entomological Society Annual Meeting. Plymouth 2008
Climate Change in Aquatic Systems: Past Present & Future (British Ecological Society, Freshwater Biological Association, Marine Biological Association) Plymouth 2004
