Weedy and invasive plant species are excellent models to study ecological and evolutionary processes in plants. My research seeks to understand and model these processes for improved management of weedy and invasive plants. Current interests include:
Experimental evolution of resistance to herbicides
Modelling the evolution of herbicide resistance
Climate change impacts on arable plants and crop-weed interactions
Ecology and modelling of seed germination, dormancy and recruitment
Paul gained a first class honours degree in Plant Science and a PhD in Plant Ecology at the University of Liverpool. Following a short spell working as an editor for CAB International, he moved to Perth, Australia to take up a postdoctoral position at the University of Western Australia. During a six year period in Australia, Paul worked on many aspects of the evolution and management of herbicide resistance in cropping systems. He joined the weeds group at Warwick HRI in December 2004 and took up a permanent position as a Senior Research Fellow in 2007.
MSc Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate
Module Leader - Weed Management & Ecology
MSc Plant Bioscience for Crop Production
Lecturer
BSc module - Ecological Principles & Processes
Module leader - Biological Invasions in Changing Environments
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MSc Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate
Lecturer - Organic & Low Input Systems
MSc Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Assessing the impact of climate change on the assembly and function of arable plant communities, Rothamsted Research,
Project Start Date:
01/07/2008
Project End Date:
30/06/2011
Assessing the impact of climate change on the assembly and function of arable plant communities, with Mikhail Seminov, Rothamsted Research, BBSRC,
Project Start Date:
01/12/2008
Project End Date:
01/12/2011
Experimental evolution of resistance to herbicides in Chlamydomoas reinhardtii, The Leverhulme Trust,
Project Start Date:
01/09/2009
Project End Date:
01/09/2012
Investigating the 'cost of adaptation' in weed populations with evolved resistance to glyphosate, BBSRC Industrial CASE Partnership - Syngenta,
Project Start Date:
01/10/2009
Project End Date:
01/10/2013
Investigating fitness costs and inheritance of evolvedglyphosate resistance in common waterhemp: BBSRC CASE Studentship (Helen Cockerton), Syngenta, Ltd,
Project Start Date:
05/10/2009
Project End Date:
04/10/2013
Neve, P.
(2007) 'Challenges for resistance evolution and management: 50 years after Harper.'
Weed Research
47
365 - 369 (0043-1737)
Neve P, Powles S B
(2005) 'Recurrent selection with reduced herbicide rates results in the rapid evolution of herbicide resistance in Lolium rigidum
'
Theoretical And Applied Genetics
110
(6), 1154 - 1166 (0040-5752)
Neve, P., Vila-Aiub, M.M. and Roux, F.
(2009) 'Evolutionary-thinking in agricultural weed management'
New Phytologist
184
(4), 783 - 793 (0028-646X)
[article]
Vila-Aiub, M.M., Neve, P. and Powles, S.B.
(2009) 'Fitness costs associated with evolved herbicide resistance alleles in plants'
New Phytologist
184
(4), 751 - 767 (0028-646X)
[article]
Vila-Aiub, M.M., Neve, P. and Powles, S.B.
(2009) 'Evidence for an ecological cost of enhanced herbicide metabolism in Lolium rigidum'
Journal Of Ecology
97
(4), 772 - 780 (0022-0477)
[article]
