Role
Administrative Assistant (Research)
Previously Research Fellow from May 2008 - April 2011
Qualifications & background
PhD Agricultural Sciences (2006) University of Nottingham. "Parasitoid interactions in behavioural ecology and biological control"
MSc Behavioural Ecology (2001) Manchester Metropolitan University
PGCE Secondary Biology (2000) University of York
BSc (Hons) Biology (1999) University of York
Research interests
When working as a postdoc I was interested in the influence of Resource Holding Potential (RHP) and Resource Value (RV) on contest outcome. I was interested in how group size and correlates of RHP influence the outcome of group battles, in addition to the effect of RHP and RV in pair-wise encounters.
Publications
Batchelor, T.P., Santini, G. & Briffa, M. 2012. Size distribution and battles in wood ants: Group resource holding potential is the sum of the individual parts. Animal Behaviour 83, 111-117.
Batchelor, T.P. & Briffa, M. 2011. Fight tactics in wood ants: Individuals in smaller groups fight harder but die faster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 278, 3243-3250.
Batchelor, T.P. & Briffa, M. 2010. Influences on resource-holding potential during dangerous group contests between wood ants. Animal Behaviour 80, 443-449.
Goubault, M., Batchelor, T. P., Romani, R., Linforth, R. S. T., Fritzsche, M., Francke, W. & Hardy, I. C. W. 2008 Volatile chemical release by bethylid wasps: identity, phylogeny, anatomy and behaviour. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94, 837-852.
Goubault, M., Batchelor, T. P., Linforth, R. S. T., Taylor, A. J. & Hardy, I. C. W. 2006 Volatile emission by contest losers revealed by real-time chemical analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273, 2853-2859.
Batchelor, T. P., Hardy, I. C. W. & Barrera, J. F. 2006 Interactions among bethylid parasitoid species attacking the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera : Scolytidae). Biological Control 36, 106-118.
Humphries, E. L., Hebblethwaite, A. J., Batchelor, T. P. & Hardy, I. C. W. 2006 The importance of valuing resources: host weight and contender age as determinants of parasitoid wasp contest outcomes. Animal Behaviour 72, 891-898.
Batchelor, T. P., Hardy, I. C. W., Barrera, J. F. & Pérez-Lachaud, G. 2005 Insect gladiators II: Competitive interactions within and between bethylid parasitoid species of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus Hampei (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Biological Control 33, 194-202.
Perez-Lachaud, G., Batchelor, T. P. & Hardy, I. C. W. 2004 Wasp eat wasp: facultative hyperparasitism and intra-guild predation by bethylid wasps. Biological Control 30, 149-155.
