Dr Tiffany Ki
- Henslow Research Fellow
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About
I completed my undergraduate in Education with Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge and then took my MSc in Applied Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia. I then worked on the British Ecological Society’s Policy team in 2019-2020. In 2021, I joined the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York for my PhD, where I used museum collections to examine long-term changes in tropical butterflies in response to climate change and land-use change. In 2024, I joined Darwin College and the Insect Ecology Group as a Henslow Research Fellow and I am using the Zoology Museum’s Insect Collection to examine two centuries of change in UK macromoths and how it relates to anthropogenic changes (e.g. street lighting, land-use and climate).
Research
Key publications
Ki, Beale, Huertas & Hill. (2025) Little long-term change in regional species richness of tropical butterflies over the past 166 years masks turnover in community composition, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2057), 10.1098/rspb.2025.1772.
Ki, Beale, Huertas & Hill. (2024) Examining the vulnerability of endemic tropical butterflies to climate change, Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17(5), 10.1111/icad.12744.
Ki, Pain, Gill & Green. (2023) The relationship between Mute Swan Cygnus olor population trends in Great Britain and environmental change, Bird Study, 70(3) 10.1080/00063657.2023.2239554.
Full list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Dg5tOn0AAAAJ&hl=en
I am a conservation scientist interested in understanding how biodiversity and ecosystems work, especially urban and more novel ecosystems, and in turn understanding how best to reconcile human development and conservation. I am particularly fascinated by insects, and using museum collections to understand long-term biodiversity change and inform effective conservation action today.
