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1969
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University of Cambridge(Current)
Imperial College London
University of Southampton
Universiti of Malaysia Sabah
Natural History Museum
William A. Foster is an author at University of Cambridge specializing in entomology, evolutionary biology, and biology.
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BiologyEntomologyEvolutionary BiologyNatural SciencesEngineeringBiodiversityAnimal BehaviorSymbiosisPublic HealthForestry
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1969–2024
Evidence for the dilution effect in the selfish herd from fish predation on a marine insect
William A. Foster, J. E. Treherne · Nature · 1981 · 625 citations
Selfish Herd, Engineering, Foraging +8
Doubling the estimate of invertebrate biomass in a rainforest canopy
M. D. Farnon Ellwood, William A. Foster · Nature · 2004 · 249 citations
Forest Productivity, Forest Biomass, Rainforest Canopy
Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf-litter
Tom M. Fayle, Edgar C. Turner, Jake L. Snaddon et al. · Basic and Applied Ecology · 2010 · 203 citations
Biodiversity, Forest Conservation, Evolutionary Biology +3
Group transmission of predator avoidance behaviour in a marine insect: The trafalgar effect
J. E. Treherne, William A. Foster · Animal Behaviour · 1981 · 200 citations
Biology, Group Transmission, Marine Insect +7
Stochastic and deterministic processes jointly structure tropical arthropod communities
M. D. Farnon Ellwood, Andrea Manica, William A. Foster · Ecology Letters · 2009 · 171 citations
Biology, Biodiversity, Molecular Ecology +10
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