### My research focuses on how, why, and when species move and adapt into new areas/environments. A pressing issue as rapid anthropogenic (human) pressures alter the availability and distribution of habitats. # Study systems - ### [[Three Spined Sticklebacks Ecotypes - North Uist]] - ### [[Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics]] - ### [[St Pirans Crab - Clibanarius erythropus]] # Research papers - **Patterson, C**, Brennan A, Cowling H, González-Rodríguez A, Grether GF, Mendoza-Cuenca L, Springer M, Vega-Sánchez YM, Drury J. [[Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerina spp.)]] *Molecular Ecology* 2025. - **Patterson C**, Bonillas-Monge E, Brennan A., Grether GF, Mendoza-Cuenca L, Tucker R, Vega-Sánchez YM, Drury, J. [[A chromosome-level genome assembly for the smoky rubyspot damselfly (Hetaerina titia)]] *Journal of Heredity* 2024 - **Patterson C** and Drury J. [[Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics - current insights and future directions]] *Biological Reviews* 2023 - **Patterson C**, Laing C, Early R. [[The range expansion of Clibanarius erythropus to the UK suggests that other range-shifting intertidal species may not follow]] *Marine Biology* 2022 - Sanders D, Frago E, Kehoe R, **Patterson C**, and Gaston KJ. . [[A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night]] *Nature Ecology & Evolution* 2021 - **Patterson C**, Slater M, Early R, Laing C. [[The status of Clibanarius erythropus after a recent range expansion to Great Britain, with the highest latitude recording of a gravid individual]] *Marine Biology Records.* 2020 ![[C_erythropus_H_titia_photo_1.jpg]]