Proffil Staff Dr Ben Rowson
Prif Guradur: Sŵoleg
Manylion Cyswllt
Parc Cathays
Caerdydd
CF10 3NP
Ffôn: +44 (0)29 2057 3110
Enw Staff
Enw Swydd
Cyfrifoldebau:
Cymhwysterau ac Aelodaeth o Gyrff Perthnasol
BSc (Anrh.) Bywydeg Amgylcheddol (St Andrews); MSc Ecoleg (Bangor); PhD Systemateg (Caerdydd). Aelodaeth: Cymdeithas Gregynegol Prydain Fawr ac Iwerddon; UNITAS Malacologica; Cymdeithas Casgliadau’r Gwyddorau Naturiol (NatSCA); Ymddiriedolaeth Bywyd Gwyllt De a Gorllewin Cymru.
Swyddi: Llywydd a Chofiadur Anrhydeddus Anforol (Cymdeithas Gregynegol Prydain Fawr ac Iwerddon).
Diddordebau Ymchwil
Malacoleg (astudio molysgiaid) yn seiliedig ar gasgliadau cregyn, anatomegol a DNA/meinweoedd yr Amgueddfa, o Gymru drefol a gwledig i goedwigoedd glaw trofannol. Ymchwil cyfredol yn canolbwyntio ar: 1) newidiadau ddoe a heddiw i falwod a gwlithod Prydain, a’u cadwraeth; 2) tacsonomeg alffa a biodaearyddiaeth yn nwyrain Affrica, yn enwedig ‘malwod hela’ cigysol (Streptaxidae). Mae canfyddiadau wedi’u defnyddio i greu canllawiau maes, canfod rhywogaethau goresgynnol a phlâu planhigion, ail-greu amgylcheddau cynhanesyddol, cadwraeth rhywogaethau prin, a pharasitioleg. Caiff canlyniadau eu rhannu trwy sgyrsiau, digwyddiadau, addysgu, cyfryngau cymdeithasol a chyfryngau traddodiadol, gwyddoniaeth dinasyddion, arddangosfeydd a chyhoeddiadau. Mae gwaith contract yn cynnwys arolygon o rywogaethau prin neu safleoedd bregus, gweminarau, archaeoleg, ac asesiadau Rhestr Goch IUCN.
Allweddeiriau
Tacsonomeg, systemateg, ffylogenedd, Molysgiaid, Gastropoda, gwlithod, malwod, casgliadau, hanes amgylcheddol, bioamrywiaeth, bioddaearyddiaeth, codau bar DNA, cofnodi, rhywogaethau ymledol, coedwigoedd trofannol, Affrica.Cysylltiadau
Detholiad o Gyhoeddiadau
Rowson, B., Seddon, M. B., Tattersfield, P., a Lange, C. N. 2024. Snails of “sky islands” above an equatorial desert: terrestrial molluscs on four isolated mountain ranges in northern Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 62 (3): 13303. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13303
Rowson, B. 2024. Descriptions of four new higher taxa of “hunter snails” (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Streptaxidae) in the Afrotropics. Journal of Conchology 45 (1): 116–124. https://doi.org/10.61733/jconch/4513
Rowson, B., Law, M., Miller, J. M., White, T., Shipton, C., Crowther, A., Ndiema, E., Petraglia, M., & Boivin, N. 2024. A Quaternary sequence of terrestrial molluscs from East Africa: a record of diversity, stability, and abundance since Marine Isotope Stage 5 (78,000 BP). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 153 (1): 61–86. https://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/153/061-086
Walker, T., Rowson, B., a Gittenberger, A. 2024. Liardetia samoensis (Mousson, 1865) (Stylommatophora: Microcystidae): another hothouse mollusc new to Britain and the first record of this species outside Asia. Journal of Conchology 45 (1): 116–124. https://doi.org/10.61733/jconch/4515
Rowson, B., Powell, H., Willing, M., Dobson, M., & Shaw, H. 2021. Freshwater Snails of Britain and Ireland. Field Studies Council, Swydd Amwythig, DU. 192 tud.
Allen, A., Greig, C., Rowson, B., Gasser, R. B., Jabbar, A., Morelli, S., Morgan, E. R., Wood, M., & Forman, D. 2020. DNA Footprints: using parasites to detect elusive animals, proof of principle in hedgehogs. Animals 10 (1420): doi:10.3390/ani10081420
Rowson B., Ablett J., Gallichan J., Holmes A. M., Oliver P. G., Salvador A., Turner J. A., Wood H., Brown C., Gordon D., Hunter T., Machin R., Morgenroth H., Reilly, M. Petts R. & Sutcliffe R. 2018. Mollusca Types in Great Britain. Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales / Natural History Museum. Ar gael ar-lein ar https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk
Aziz, N. A. A., Daly, E., Allen, S., Rowson, B., Greig, C., Forman, D., & Morgan, E. R. 2016. Distribution of Angiostrongylus vasorum and its gastropod intermediate hosts along the rural-urban gradient in two cities in the United Kingdom, using real time PCR. Parasites & Vectors, 9, 56. doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1338-3
Owen, C., Rowson, B., & Wilkinson, K. 2016. First record of the predatory semi-slug Daudebardia rufa (Draparnaud, 1805) from the UK (Eupulmonata: Daudebardiidae). Journal of Conchology, 42 (3), 119-121.
Rowson, B. 2015. Mollusca. Yn George Smith ac Elizabeth A. Walker. Snail Cave rock shelter, North Wales: a new prehistoric site. Archaeologia Cambrensis, 163, 99-131.
Rowson, B., & Wood, A.H. 2015. Shells from Alfred Russel Wallace in the National Museum of Wales. Mollusc World,37, 19-23.
Rowson, B. 2014. Cyrhaeddiad Hirfaith yr Ysbrydwlithen, Erthygl Amgueddfa Cymru.
Rowson, B., Turner, J.A., Anderson, R., & Symondson, W.O.C. 2014. Slugs of Britain and Ireland: identification, understanding and control. Field Studies Council, Shropshire, UK, tud. 140.
Rowson, B., Anderson, R., Turner, J.A., & Symondson, W. O. C. 2014. The Slugs of Britain and Ireland: undetected and undescribed species increase a well-studied, economically important fauna by more than 20%. PLOS One,9 (3) e91907. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091907
Rowson, B. & Tattersfield, P. 2013. Revision of Dadagulella gen. nov., the “Gulella radius” group (Gastropoda: Streptaxidae) of the eastern Afrotropics, including six new species and three new subspecies. [PDF] European Journal of Taxonomy, 37, 1-46.
Rowson, B. & Van Goethem, J.L. 2012. A second remarkable slug and a thin-shelled Trochonanina snail from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Stylommatophora: Helicarionoidea: Urocyclidae). Journal of Conchology, 41, 239-247.
Salvador, R.B., Rowson, B., & Simone, L.R.L. 2011. Re-writing the fossil history of Cerionidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata); new family assignment of the Brazilian Paleocene genus Brasilennea Maury, 1935. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77, 445-447.
Herbert, D.G., & Rowson, B. 2011. Pupa menkeana Pfeiffer, 1853, type species of the speciose land snail genus Gulella Pfeiffer, 1856: correction of longstanding misidentification and designation of neotype (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Streptaxidae). African Invertebrates, 52 (2) 233-242.
Tattersfield, P., Rowson, B. & Gallichan, J. 2011. Bernard Verdcourt (1925-2011) – An Appreciation, Malacological Names and Bibliography. Journal of Conchology, 40 (6) 681-704.
Rowson, B., Warren, B.H., & Ngereza, C.F. 2010. Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an “oceanic” island. ZooKeys, 70, 1-39.
Rowson, B., Tattersfield, P., & Symondson, W.O.C. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of tropical carnivorous land-snails (Pulmonata: Streptaxoidea) with particular reference to East Africa and the Indian Ocean. Zoologica Scripta, 50, 85-96.
Verdcourt, B., Wood, H, & Rowson, B. 2003. Thomas Pain (1915-2003). Journal of Conchology, 38, 179-191.
