Michael Bertram

I am a behavioural ecologist / ecotoxicologist researching the impacts of human-induced environmental change on ecological and evolutionary processes in wildlife. In particular, I am interested in uncovering how exposure to ‘emerging’ forms of chemical pollution can disrupt complex traits and behavioural processes in wild animals. I address these questions using a combination of lab and field approaches in order to uncover how contaminants affect animals across multiple levels of biological organisation, from individuals to populations and communities. Increasingly, I am interested in upscaling environmental realism in behavioural ecotoxicology—e.g. field exposures, multiple stressors, high-resolution acoustic telemetry. 

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, working within the Aquatic Ecology Research Group, as well as a Guest Researcher in the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University, and an Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. I am also an Associate Editor at Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, an Early-Career Editorial Advisory Board Member at Environmental Science & Technology, and a Board Member at the International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP) and the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE). In addition, I led the creation of the EthoCRED evaluation method, for which all documents and guidance material are available at ethocred.org

More information on my research can be found at www.michaelbertramlab.org