Overview
The title of my PhD is ‘Modelling the role of biodiversity in ecosystem resilience to climate change'. In particular, I will be looking at similarities and differences between tropical forests and coral reefs. I am supervised by Professor Peter Cox at the University of Exeter, and Professor Pete Mumby at the University of Queensland, under the QUEX institute.
So far, I have worked with Peter Cox on a toy model of an ecosystem looking at general relationships between biodiversity, evolution and fitness in a changing environment, finding critical rates of change under which the ecosystem persisted. I have recently started exploring a fish-foodsource model with Pete Mumby, initially focusing on the varied diets of parrotfish, with plans to investigate how the different components of the model are affected by future changes in environment.
I completed my undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Physics (MSci) at the University of Bristol. I then worked for a short period at the Met Office, compiling a report on land surface temperature biases in semi-arid regions in the JULES model.
Publications
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2023
- Millington R. (2023) Modelling the Role of Diversity in Ecosystem Responses to Warming.
- Millington R, García FC, Yvon-Durocher G. (2023) Adaptation dampens the response of microbial community respiration to temperature, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-802. [PDF]
2022
- Millington RC, Rogers A, Cox P, Bozec Y, Mumby PJ. (2022) Combined direct and indirect impacts of warming on the productivity of coral reef fishes, Ecosphere, volume 13, no. 7, DOI:10.1002/ecs2.4108. [PDF]
2020
- Millington R, Cox PM, García FC, Yvon-Durocher G. (2020) Modelling the role of selection and complementarity in ecosystem function under climate change, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16475. [PDF]
2019
- Millington R, Cox PM, Moore JR, Yvon-Durocher G. (2019) Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, DOI:10.1042/ETLS20180113. [PDF]