Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  ross.samuel.2ckyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From 2021, To Present

  International Society of Ecoacoustics
• From 2018, To Present

  Irish Ecological Association
• From 2018, To Present

  British Ecological Society
• From 2017, To Present

  Ecological Society of Japan

Academic Degree

• 01 Jun. 2016

  University of Leeds修士（Ecology and Environmental Biology）
• 17 Jun. 2022

  Trinity College Dublin博士（Natural Sciences）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• New College Nottingham, High Pavement Sixth form college (UK), Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Environmental Science, 卒業
• University of Leeds (UK), Faculty of Biological Sciences, School of Biology, Course: Ecology and Environmental Biology, 卒業

Research History

• From Sep. 2026, To Present

  Kyoto University, Hakubi center for advanced research / Faculty of Agriculture, Associate Professor
• From Nov. 2024, To Aug. 2026

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Integrative Community Ecology Unit, Staff Scientist
• From Nov. 2022, To Oct. 2024

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Integrative Community Ecology Unit, Postdoctoral Scholar, Postdoctoral Scholar
• From Nov. 2021, To Nov. 2022

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Integrative Community Ecology Unit, Postdoctoral Fellow, Canon Foundation in Europe 2021 Research Fellow
• From Sep. 2017, To Sep. 2021

  Trinity College Dublin, Zoology Department, PhD Student, Ussher Scholar
• From Mar. 2020, To Jul. 2020

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Biodiversity & Biocomplexity Unit, Visiting Research Student
• From May 2019, To Sep. 2019

  Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Visiting Research Student
• From Jan. 2018, To Aug. 2018

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Biodiversity & Biocomplexity Unit, Visiting Research Student
• From Oct. 2016, To Mar. 2017

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Biodiversity & Biocomplexity Unit, Research Intern
• From Jul. 2014, To Jun. 2016

  University of Leeds, School of Biology, Undergraduate Research Assistant

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0001-9402-9119

• J-Global ID

  202201000531817878

• External link

  https://srpjr.wordpress.com/

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/samrpjross

Research

Research Interests

• Community Ecology
• Ecoacoustics
• Biodiversity
• Ecological Stability
• Global Environmental Change

Research Areas

• Life sciences, Ecology and environmental science, Community Ecology; Biodiversity; Ecological Stability; Global Change; Ecoacoustics

Papers

• 

  A general hidden Markov model framework for capturing changes in species behaviour under disturbance in acoustic time series

  Litty Mathew; Caroline Brophy; Ian Donohue; Samuel R.P-J. Ross; Silvia D’Angelo

  Ecological Modelling, 2026, Peer-reviewed

  
• 

  Expert-led priorities for a response diversity research agenda in ecology

  Samuel R.P-J. Ross; Ceres Barros; Laura E. Dee; Mike S. Fowler; Owen L. Petchey; Takehiro Sasaki; Hannah J. White; Anna LoPresti

  Oikos, 2026, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• 

  Extreme Drought Increases the Temporal Variability of Grassland Productivity by Suppressing Dominant Grasses

  Wentao Luo; Naohiro I. Ishii; Taofeek O. Muraina; Lin Song; Niwu Te; Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan; Ingrid J. Slette; Samuel R. P. J. Ross; Takehiro Sasaki; Jennifer A. Rudgers; Melinda D. Smith; Alan K. Knapp; Scott L. Collins

  Ecology Letters, 28 Apr. 2025, Peer-reviewed

  
• 

  Assessing ecosystem dynamics under disturbance: a Hidden Markov Model framework for species detection data

  Mathew L.; Brophy C.; Donohue I.; Ross S.R.P-J.; D’Angelo S.

  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'25), 2025, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• 

  Measuring the Response Diversity of Ecological Communities Experiencing Multifarious Environmental Change

  Francesco Polazzo; Romana Limberger; Frank Pennekamp; Samuel R.P.-J. Ross; Gavin L. Simpson; Owen L. Petchey

  Global Change Biology, Nov. 2024, Peer-reviewed

  
• 

  A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Samuel Challéat; Nicolas Farrugia; Jérémy S. P. Froidevaux; Amandine Gasc; Nicolas Pajusco; Carlos R. Abrahams; Orlando Acevedo-Charry; Ludmilla M. S. Aguiar; Zachary R. Ahlin; Franz Aiple; Cécile H. Albert; Irene Alcocer; Ana Sofia Alves; Francisco Amorim; Ludmila B. Andrade; Pedro M. Araújo; Fernando Ascensão; Serge Aucoin; Elias Bader; Diego Balbuena; Luc Barbaro; Eder Barbier; Eliana Barona Cortés; Luis Emilio Barrie; José L. Bartheld; Henry Bates; Alice Baudouin; Richard D. Beason; Christa Beckmann; Amy Beeston; Gvan Belá; Kristen M. Bellisario; Simon Belshaw; Juan F. Beltrán; Raone Beltrão-Mendes; Enrico Bernard; Thierry Besche; Peter A. Biro; Cathie Boléat; Mathieu Bossaert; Ally Bradley; Paulo Branco; Wijnand Bredewold; Philip A. Briggs; Sylvio Romério Briglia-Ferreira; Emily Buckner; Ivana Budinski; Albane Burens; Rachel T. Buxton; Andrés Canavero; Paulo Cardoso; Farah Carrasco-Rueda; Paula C. Caycedo; Frédéric Cazaban; Lara R. Cerveira; Ada Ceuppens; Alain Challéat; Angela Chappa Larrea; Adrien Charbonneau; Mina Charnaux; Pooja Choksi; Jan Cibulka; Julián Clavijo-Bustos; Zuania Colón-Piñeiro; Sofia Conde; Maria João Costa; António Cotão; Clément Couturier; Marina D. A. Scarpelli; Luis P. da Silva; Tom Davis; Nathalie de Lacoste; Sarah L. Deans; Serge Dentin; Krzysztof Deoniziak; Sarah R. Dodgin; Ivo dos Santos; Tudor I. Draganoiu; Bruno Drolet; Marina H. L. Duarte; Gonçalo Duarte; Chloé Dubset; Frank Dziock; Alice Eldridge; Simon Elise; David R. Elliott; Arthur Enguehard; Karl Esztl; Darren M. Evans; Daniel M. Ferreira; Sonia A. F. Ferreira; Diogo F. Ferreira; Ana Margarida Ferreira; Penelope C. Fialas; Lauren Foster-Shaner; Bárbara Freitas; Nicholas R. Friedman; Susan Fuller; Didier Galop; Daniel Garside; Jean-Christophe Gattus; Sylvain Geoffray; Louis Godart; Laurent Godet; Inês Gomes Marques; Fernando González-Garca; Paul Griesberger; Bilal Habib; Madeline E. Hallet; Meena M. Haribal; Jennifer Hatlauf; Sylvain Haupert; José M. Herrera; Sierra E. Herzberger; Frederico Hintze Oliveira; Kathy H. Hodder; Isabelle Hoecherl; Mark F. Hulme; Emilia Hyland; Michel Jacobs; Akash Jaiswal; Laurent Jégou; Steve Jones; Hervé Jourdan; Tomáš Jůnek; Leili Khalatbari; Sarika Khanwilkar; James J. N. Kitson; Amanda H. Korstjens; Kim Krähenbühl-Künzli; Natalija Lace; Sébastien Laguet; Hedwig Lankau; Thiago O. Laranjeiras; Gregoire Lauvin; Samuel Lavin; Matthieu Le Corre; Monica León; Judah J. Levenson; Pavel Linhart; Juliette Linossier; Diego J. Lizcano; Diego Llusia; Marty Lockett; Pedro B. Lopes; Ricardo Jorge Lopes; José Vicente López-Bao; Adrià López-Baucells; David López-Bosch; Ricardo B. Machado; Claude Mande; Guillaume Marchais; Fabio Marcolin; Oscar H. Marn Gómez; Carina B. Marques; J. Tiago Marques; Tilla Martin; Vanessa Mata; Eloisa Matheu-Cortada; Vincent Médoc; Kirsten E. Miller; Basile Montagne; Allen Moore; JoMari M. A. Moreno; Felipe N. Moreno-Gómez; Sandra Mueller; Daniela Murillo-Bedoya; Luciano N. Naka; Adrian C. Newton; João T. Nunes; Pierrette Nyssen; Fionn Ó Marcaigh; Darren P. O’Connell; M. Teague O’Mara; David Ocampo; Meryem Ouertani; Jan Olav Owren; Vitor H. Paiva; Stéphane Paris; Marion Parisot; Swaroop Patankar; Jorge M. Pereira; Slvia Pereira Barreiro; Cédric Peyronnet; Magali Philippe; Bryan C. Pijanowski; Nuno Pinto; Zach Poff; Jonathan M. Poppele; Andrew Power; Victoria Pratt; Darren S. Proppe; Raphaël Proulx; Laura Prugh; Sebastien J. Puechmaille; Xavier Puig-Montserrat; Lorenzo Quaglietta; John E. Quinn; Nancy I. Quiroga; Mariana Ramos; Rebecca Rasmussen; Georges Reckinger; Mimi Reed; Jean-Benoît Reginster; Vanesa Rivera; Clara F. Rodrigues; Patricia Mara Rodrguez-González; Eduardo Rodrguez-Rodrguez; Luke Romaine; Andrei L. Roos; Joao Rosa; Samuel R. P-J. Ross; Quentin Rouy; Alyssa M. Ryser; Sougata Sadhukhan; Robin Sandfort; José M. Santos; David Savage; Stéphanie C. Schai-Braun; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen; Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag; Pedro Segurado; Ana M. Serronha; Taylor Shaw; Brenda Shepherd; Cárol Sierra-Durán; Bruno M. Silva; Victoire Simon; Peter F. Sinclair; Carolina Soto-Navarro; Anne Sourdril; Jérôme Sueur; Larissa S. M. Sugai; Ian B. Tarrant; Fran Tattersall; Christopher N. Templeton; Michelle E. Thompson; Marcela Todd; Juan D. Tovar-Garca; Karina Townsend; Amaro Tuninetti; Paul A. Ullrich; Juan S. Vargas Soto; Kevin Vega; Gabriella Ventrice; Pierre J. Victor; Josep Vidal Oliveras; Sara Villén-Pérez; Olivier Vinet; Agnés Vivat; Jean-Do. Vrignault; William D. J. Walton; Christopher J. Watson; Oliver R. Wearn; Damion L. Whyte; Fredric M. Windsor; Yanchen Wu; Selena Xie; Ignacio Zeballos Puccherelli; Vera Zina

  Scientific Data, 27 Aug. 2024, Peer-reviewed

  
• 

  The Acoustic Index User's Guide: A practical manual for defining, generating and understanding current and future acoustic indices

  Tom Bradfer‐Lawrence; Brad Duthie; Carlos Abrahams; Matyáš Adam; Ross J. Barnett; Amy Beeston; Jennifer Darby; Benedict Dell; Nick Gardner; Amandine Gasc; Becky Heath; Nia Howells; Magnus Janson; Maria‐Viktoria Kyoseva; Thomas Luypaert; Oliver C. Metcalf; Anna E. Nousek‐McGregor; Frederica Poznansky; Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross; Sarab Sethi; Siobhan Smyth; Emily Waddell; Jérémy S. P. Froidevaux

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 28 May 2024, Peer-reviewed

  
• Worldwide soundscape ecology patterns across realms

  Darras KFA; Rountree R.; Van Wilgenburg S.; Cord AF; Chen Y.; Dong L.; Rocquencourt A.; Desjonquères C.; Diaz PM; Lin T-H.; Turco T.; Emmerson L.; Bradfer-Lawrence T.; Gasc A.; Marley S.; Salton M.; Schillé L.; Wensveen PJ; Wu S-H.; Acero Murcia AC; Acevedo-Charry O.; Adam M.; Aguzzi J.; Akoglu I.; Amorim MCP; Anders M.; André M.; Antonelli A.; Do Nascimento LA; Appel G.; Archer S.; Astaras C.; Atemasov A.; Atkinson J.; Attia J.; Baltag E.; Barbaro L.; Basan F.; Batist C.; Baucells AL; Baumgarten JE; Bayle Sempere JT; Bellisario K.; David AB; Berger-Tal O.; Bertucci F.; Betts MG; Bhalla IS; Bicudo T.; Bolgan M.; Bombaci S.; Bota G.; Boullhesen G.; Briers RA; Buchan S.; Budka M.; Burchard K.; Buscaino G.; Calvente A.; Campos M.; Ceraulo M.; Cerezo-Araujo M.; Cerwén G.; Chaskda AA; Chistopoloba M.; Clark CW; Cox KD; Cretois B.; Czarnecki C.; da Silva LP; da Silva W.; De Clippele LH; de la Haye D.; de Oliveira; Tissiani AS; de Zwaan D.; Degano ME; Deichmann J.; del Rio J.; Devenish C.; Díaz-Delgado R.; Diniz P.; Diógenes Oliveira-Júnior D.; Dorigo T.; Dröge S.; Duarte M.; Duarte A.; Dunleavy K.; Dziak R.; Elise S.; Enari H.; Enari HS; Erbs F.; Eriksson BK; Ertör-Akyazi P.; Ferrari NC; Ferreira L.; Fleishman AB; Fonseca P.; Freitas B.; Friedman NR; Froidevaux J.; Gogoleva S.; Gonçalves MI; Gonzaga C.; González Correa JM; Goodale E.; Gottesman B.; Grass I.; Greenhalgh J.; Gregoire J.; Haché S.; Hagge J.; Halliday W.; Hammer A.; Hanf-Dressler T.; Haupert S.; Haver S.; Heath B.; Hending D.; Hernandez-Blanco J.; Higgs D.; Hiller T.; Huang LC-C.; Hutchinson KL; Hyacinthe C.; Iniunam IA; Jackson J.; Jacot A.; Jahn O.; Juanes F.; Jasper Kanes KS; Kenchington E.; Kepfer-Rojas S.; Kitzes J.; Kusuminda T.; Lehnardt Y.; Lei J.; Leitman P.; Leon J.; Li D.; Lima-Santos CS; Lloyd KJ; Looby A.; López-Bosch D.; Louth-Robins T.; Maeda T.; Malige F.; Mammides C.; Marcacci G.; Markolf M.; Marques MI; Martin CW; Martin DA; Martin K.; McArthur E.; McKown M.; McLeod LJT; Mèdoc V.; Metcalf O.; Meyer C.; Mikusinski G.; Miller B.; Monteiro J.; Mooney A.; Moreira S.; Moreira Sugai LS; Morris D.; Müller S.; Muñoz-Duque SE; Murchy KA; Nagelkerken I.; Navarro MM; Nouioua R.; Ocampo-Ariza C.; Olden JD; Oppel S.; Osiecka AN; Papale E.; Parsons M.; Pashkevich M.; Patris J.; Pedro Marques J.; Pérez-Granados C.; Piatti L.; Pichorim M.; Pine MK; Pinheiro T.; Pradervand J-N.; Quinn J.; Quintella B.; Radford C.; Raick X.; Rainho A.; Ramalho E.; Ramesh V.; Rétaux S.; Reynolds LK; Riede K.; Rimmer T.; Rios N.; Rocha R.; Rocha L, Roe P.; Ross SRP-J.; Rosten CM; Ryan J.; Salustio-Gomes C.; Samarra FIP; Samartzis P.; Santos J.; Sattler T.; Scharffenberg K.; Schoeman RP; Schuchmann K-L.; Sebastian-Gonzalez E.; Seibold S.; Sethi S.; Shabangu F.; Shaw T.; Shen X.; Singer D.; Sirovic A.; Slater M.; Spriel B.; Stanley J.; da Cunha; Tavares V.; Thomisch K.; Thorn S.; Tong J.; Torrent L.; Traba J.; Tremblay JA; Trevelin L.; Tseng S.; Tuanmu M-N.; Valverde M.; Vernasco B.; Vierira M.; Vital da Paz R.; Ward M.; Watson M.; Weldy M.; Wiel J.; Willie J.; Wood H.; Xu J.; Zhou W.; Li S.; Sousa-Lima R.; Wanger TC

  Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14 Apr. 2024, Peer-reviewed

  
• 

  Limited theoretical and empirical evidence that response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change

  Samuel RP-J Ross; Takehiro Sasaki

  Ecological Research, Nov. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
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  Divergent ecological responses to typhoon disturbance revealed via landscape-scale acoustic monitoring

  Samuel RP-J Ross; Nicholas R Friedman; Kenneth L Dudley; Takuma Yoshida; Masashi Yoshimura; Evan P Economo; Dave W Armitage; Ian Donohue

  Global Change Biology, Nov. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• 

  Response trait diversity and species asynchrony underlie the diversity-stability relationship in Romanian bird communities

  Hannah J White; Joseph J Bailey; Cortan Bogdan; Samuel R P-J Ross

  Journal of Animal Ecology, 2023, Peer-reviewed, Last author

  
• 

  How to measure response diversity

  Samuel RP-J Ross; Owen L Petchey; Takehiro Sasaki; David W Armitage

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• 

  Passive Acoustic Monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions

  Samuel R.P-J. Ross; Darren P. O'Connell; Jessica L. Deichmann; Camille Desjonquères; Amandine Gasc; Jennifer N. Phillips; Sarab S. Sethi; Connor M. Wood; Zuzana Burivalova

  Functional Ecology, 2023, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• 

  A suburban soundscape reveals altered acoustic dynamics during COVID-19 lockdown

  Samuel R. P-J. Ross

  Journal of Ecoacoustics, 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• 

  Predators mitigate the destabilising effects of heatwaves on multitrophic stream communities

  Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross; Jorge García Molinos; Atsushi Okuda; Jackson Johnstone; Keisuke Atsumi; Ryo Futamura; Maureen A. Williams; Yuichi Matsuoka; Jiro Uchida; Shoji Kumikawa; Hiroshi Sugiyama; Osamu Kishida; Ian Donohue

  Global Change Biology, Jan. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
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  Universal scaling of robustness of ecosystem services to species loss

  Samuel R. P.-J. Ross; Jean-François Arnoldi; Michel Loreau; Cian D. White; Jane C. Stout; Andrew L. Jackson; Ian Donohue

  Nature Communications, Dec. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
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  Illuminating the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of ecological stability across scales

  Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross; Yuka Suzuki; Michio Kondoh; Kenta Suzuki; Paula Villa Martín; Maria Dornelas

  Ecological Research, 28 May 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
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  Utility of acoustic indices for ecological monitoring in complex sonic environments

  Samuel R.P-J. Ross; Nicholas R. Friedman; Masashi Yoshimura; Takuma Yoshida; Ian Donohue; Evan P. Economo

  Ecological Indicators, Feb. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
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  A test of trophic and functional island biogeography theory with the avifauna of a continental archipelago

  Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross; Nicholas R. Friedman; Julia Janicki; Evan P. Economo

  Journal of Animal Ecology, 14 Sep. 2019, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
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  Selective logging intensity in an East African rain forest predicts reductions in ant diversity

  Samuel R. P.-J. Ross; Francisco Hita Garcia; Georg Fischer; Marcell K. Peters

  Biotropica, 19 Sep. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
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  A Generalizable Framework for Multi-Scale Auditing of Digital Learning Provision in Higher Education

  Samuel Robert Peter-James Ross; Veronica Elizabeth Volz; Matthew K Lancaster; Aysha Divan

  Online Learning, 01 Jun. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
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  Listening to ecosystems: data-rich acoustic monitoring through landscape-scale sensor networks

  Samuel R. P. -J. Ross; Nicholas R. Friedman; Kenneth L. Dudley; Masashi Yoshimura; Takuma Yoshida; Evan P. Economo

  Ecological Research, 06 Jan. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
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  Incorporating intraspecific trait variation into functional diversity: Impacts of selective logging on birds in Borneo

  Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross; Christopher Hassall; William J. E. Hoppitt; Felicity A. Edwards; David P. Edwards; Keith C. Hamer

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11 Nov. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  

Presentations

• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  James Cook University, Australia, 23 Oct. 2025, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  University of Queensland, Australia, 17 Oct. 2025, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  Monash University, Australia, 15 Oct. 2025, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia, 13 Oct. 2025, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  Graduate School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hokkaido University, 19 Mar. 2025, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, 28 Feb. 2025, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  The Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, 26 Feb. 2025, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Samuel Ross

  Department of International Studies, University of Tokyo, Nov. 2024, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  University of Colorado Boulder, Aug. 2024, Invited

  
• What can buckets and microphones tell us about resilience in the natural world?

  Earth Species Project, Aug. 2024, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  University of Cambridge, UK, Jul. 2024, Invited

  
• Microphones, models, and mesocosms for understanding ecological stability across scales

  Anglia Ruskin University, Jul. 2024, Invited

  
• Integrative approaches for understanding the patterns and drivers of ecological stability under global environmental change

  Tohoku University, Dec. 2023, Invited

  
• Understanding disturbance impacts in terrestrial ecosystems through ecoacoustics

  K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, May 2023, Invited

  
• Integrative approaches for understanding the patterns and drivers of ecological stability under global environmental change

  University of Tokyo, Apr. 2023, Invited

  
• Integrative approaches for understanding the patterns and drivers of ecological stability under global environmental change

  Samuel Ross

  Ecological Society of Japan, Mar. 2023, Invited

  
• Response diversity: concepts, methods, and applications

  Samuel Ross

  Ecological Society of Japan Kanto Regional Meeting, Jul. 2022, Invited

  
• Patterns and drivers of stability responses to environmental change

  University of Oldenburg, Germany, Jun. 2022, Invited

  
• Patterns and drivers of stability responses to environmental change

  University of Zurich, Switzerland, Jun. 2022, Invited

  
• Understanding disturbance impacts in terrestrial ecosystems through ecoacoustics

  University of the West of England, UK, Apr. 2021, Invited

  
• Understanding disturbance impacts in terrestrial ecosystems through ecoacoustics

  UK Acoustics Network Bioacoustics Special Interest Group, Apr. 2021, Invited

  
• Global change erodes ecological stability

  Yokohama National University, Feb. 2021, Invited

  
• Novel methods reveal the structure, diversity, and dynamics of Ryūkyūan avifaunal communities

  University of Tokyo, Sep. 2019, Invited

  
• Ecoacoustic diversity, structure, and stability revealed through landscape-scale monitoring

  Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Jun. 2019, Invited

  
• Novel methods reveal the structure, diversity, and dynamics of Ryūkyūan avifaunal communities

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, May 2019, Invited

  
• When individuals matter: Biodiversity and the impacts of logging in Borneo

  National Centre for Biological Sciences, India, Apr. 2017, Invited

  
• When individuals matter: Biodiversity and the impacts of logging in Borneo

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Mar. 2017, Invited

  

Awards

• 14 Mar. 2019

  Ecological Research Award Ross et al. 2018(Ecological Society of Japan)
• 14 Mar. 2025

  Ecological Research Award Ross & Sasaki 2024(Ecological Society of Japan)
• 08 Jan. 2019

  Best presentation award(Irish Ecological Association)
• 08 Jan. 2021

  Early career achievement award(Irish Ecological Association)
• 01 Aug. 2021

  Postgraduate researcher of the year highly commended(ESAI)
• 14 Mar. 2023

  鈴木賞(日本生態学会）
• 01 May 2019

  W.C. Campbell Postgraduate Teaching Inspiration Award(Dept. of Zoology, TCD)
• 01 Apr. 2020

  Trinity Teaching award for postgraduate students(Trinity College Dublin)

Media Coverage

• Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time

  The Japan Times, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/04/21/wildlife/okinawa-sound-climate-change/, Apr. 2024, Paper

  
• BBC Digital Planet: Machine Learning and Soundscapes

  BBC, BBC Digital Planet, https://soundcloud.com/sam-ross-14/bbc-digital-planet-machine-learning-and-soundscapes-20210720, Jul. 2021, Media report

  

Academic, Social Contribution

Committee Memberships

• From Jan. 2022, To Present

  Handling Editor, Ecological Research
• From May 2019, To Present

  Publications Committee, British Ecological Society
• From Nov. 2019, To Sep. 2024

  Early Career Working Group, British Ecological Society