Dr Reut Vardi
Junior Research Fellow in Environmental Sustainability
Reut is an ecologist and conservation scientist. Prior to joining the University of Oxford and St Edmund Hall, she was a Postdoctoral researcher at Tel Aviv University under the Alexander and Eva Lester and the George S. Wise post-doctoral fellowships. She completed her PhD from Ben-Gurion University, exploring the effects of environmental variability on animal behaviour.
Reut’s research interests are mostly behavioural ecology and conservation culturomics, centring around environmental and anthropogenic changes effects on animals and challenges for biodiversity.
From an ecological point of view, she explores animals’ behavioural and physiological responses to their environments, as well as future anthropogenic changes effects on animal distribution. From a social point of view, she explores digital human-nature interactions and how novel online platforms can inform conservation science and actions, as well as help reconnect people to nature.
1. Vardi R, Dubiner S, Ben Bezalel R, Meiri S, & Levin E. 2023. Do urban habitats induce physiological adaptations in Mediterranean lizards? Journal of Zoology. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13089
2. Sbragaglia V, Espasandín Soneira L, Jarić I, Vardi R, Ramírez F, & Coll M. 2023. Tracking ongoing transboundary marine distributional range-shifts in the digital era. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14309
3. Caetano GH, Vardi R, Jarić I, Correia RA, Roll U & Veríssimo D. 2023. Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation. Conservation Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14100
4. Vardi R & Berger-Tal O. 2022. Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioural flexibility in urban environments. Behavioral ecology. http://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac002
5. Vardi R, Berger-Tal O, & Roll U. 2021. iNaturalist insights illuminate COVID-19 effects on large mammals in urban centers. Biological Conservation 254, 108953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108953
6. Vardi R, Mittermeier JC, & Roll U. 2021. Combining culturomic sources to uncover trends in popularity and seasonal interest in plants. Conservation Biology 35, 460-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13705
7. Vardi R, Goulet CT, Matthews G, Berger-Tal O, Wong BBM, & Chapple DG. 2020. Spatial learning in captive and wild-born lizards: heritability and environmental effects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74(2), 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-2805-6
Where next?
Dr Reut Vardi
PhD
- Junior Research Fellow in Environmental Sustainability
- Rothschild Fellow at Oxford School of Geography and the Environment