My name is Dr. Robert A. Montgomery. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, a Supernumerary Fellow in Exeter College, and the Director of the Biodiversity and Sustainability Research Group.
The Biodiversity and Sustainability Research Group is a vibrant research set of interdisciplinary scientists pursuing integrative ecological, sustainability, and biodiversity conservation related research around the world.
The broad goal of my research is to document the ways in which animals move through and use landscapes in an increasingly fragmented and human-disturbed world.
While diverse, my research centers on carnivore-prey interactions. I model the ways in which carnivores hunting prey can have physical and detectable consequences on the landscapes where they reside and on the human communities with which they share these landscapes. In this capacity, I reveal the influence of life history, abiotic, and biotic factors on individual carnivore/prey decision-making and quantify how these decisions can scale-up to have population-level consequences with relevance to conservation, environmental sustainability, and policy.
A central tenet of my research philosophy is to conduct enriching interdisciplinary research among real-world stakeholders, students, in-country partners, and colleagues to enhance the scope and broaden the implications of my work.
Dr. Robert A. Montgomery
