Craig R. White
School of Biosciences
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT, UK
Ph: +44 (0) 121 414 3822
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 5925
c.r.white@bham.ac.uk
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I'm a comparative ecological and evolutionary physiologist, currently a
member of the behavioural and ecological physiology research group
at The University of Birmingham working with Professors
Graham Martin and
Pat Butler
on the visual and energetic determinants of pursuit-dive foraging in Great Cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo.
During recent years, this species has been the subject of much negative campaigning for their
control because of perceived damage to fishery interests, particularly on commercial angling waters.
We hope to enhance understanding of the biological bases of the perceived conflict between aquatic
birds and human economic interests and inform the management of these species, as well as providing a
basic understanding of the visual and energetic constraints that limit the diving behaviour of
aquatic birds.
Through my research career to date, I've been fortunate to work on subjects as diverse
as the allometry of mammalian BMR, energetics of the beetle pollinators of
thermoregulating flowers (in French Guiana), the biology of a range of burrowing animals
including scorpions, mole crickets, hopping mice, and wombats, reproductive biology of the
southern hairy-nosed wombat (in South Australia), and gas exchange in the warrens of the
critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombat (in Central Queensland, Australia)
and the egg masses of frogs. Information on each of these topics can be accessed through
the images to the right.
Selected Publications
White C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2003) Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 100, 4046-4049
Seymour, R.S., White, C.R. and Gibernau, M. (2003) Heat reward for insect pollinators. Nature 426, 243-244
White, C.R.,
Blackburn, T.M., Martin, G.R., and Butler, P.J. (2007) Basal
metabolic rate of birds is associated with environmental temperature
and precipitation, not primary productivity. Proceedings of the
Royal Society B. 274: 287-293.
White, C.R.,
Blackburn, T.M., Terblanche, J.S., Marais, E., Gibernau, M., Chown,
S.L. (in press) Evolutionary responses of discontinuous gas
exchange in insects.
Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the USA
White,
C.R., Cassey, P. and Blackburn, T.M. (In press) Allometric
exponents do not support a universal metabolic allometry. Ecology
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