Autor: Richard Harrington

– Steve Wratten is a Professor of Ecology at Lincoln University, Principal Investigator in the Bio-Protection Research Centre , and a visiting professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia and at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China. He has previously studied or worked at the Universities of Reading, Glasgow, London, Cambridge and Southampton (UK) and Oregon State University (USA). Professor Wratten is a world-leading researcher in agro-ecology, with a focus on the biological control of pests and pollination. Professor Wratten has published more about 400 journal articles, 8 books, 90 book chapters, and has supervised more than 80 Ph D students to completion. He has published papers in high-profile journals, including Nature, Ecology, Ecology Letters and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. In 2014, he was named among the top 10 authors in the centenary editorial of the international journal Annals of Applied Biology (doi: 10.1111/aab.12093). Prof Wratten has contributed 38 papers to this journal since its inception.