Imperial College London
Silwood Park Campus
Buckhurst Road
Ascot
Berkshire, SL5 7PY

charles.edwards @ imperial.ac.uk

Research interests

My research is focused on the development and application of strategies to sustainably manage exploited species, both marine and terrestrial. Much of this work comes under the heading of management strategy evaluation, accounting for both biological and socio-economic uncertainty to develop statistically robust frameworks for harvest. Examples of this work include the bioeconomic evaluation of enforcement and assessment methods for the South Georgia toothfish fishery, and development of a data-poor harvest regime for lion hunting concessions in Africa. I also have a continued interest in spatial management, particularly the assessment of marine protected areas using dynamic population models, and have developed and applied appropriate methods to do this.

Publications

Large P.A., Agnew D.J., Cleote R., Damalas D., Dransfield L., Edwards C.T.T., Feist S., Figueiredo I., Barrio- Frojan C., Gonz´alez F., Gil-Herrera J., Kenny A., Jakobsd´ ottir K., Longshore M., Lorance P., Marchal P., Mytilineou C., Perez A., Planque B. and Politou C.Y. (2012) Strengths and weaknesses of the management and monitoring of deep-water stocks, fisheries and ecosystems in various areas of the world a roadmap towards sustainable deep-water fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic? Reviews in Fisheries Science. In press.

Edwards C.T.T., Hillary R., Levontin P., Blanchard J. and Lorenzen K. (2012) Assessment and management approaches for deepwater stocks. Reviews in Fisheries Science. In press.

Edwards C.T.T. and Plaga´nyi E´ .E. (2011) Protecting old fish through spatial management: is there a benefit for sustainable exploitation?. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 853-863.

Edwards C.T.T., Hillary R., Hoshino E., Pearce J. and Agnew D.J. (2010) Bioeconomic evaluation of fisheries enforcement effort using a multifleet simulation model. Fisheries Research 107: 253-260.

Milner-Gulland E.J., Arroyo B., Bellard C., Blanchard J., Bunnefeld N., Delibes-Mateos M., Edwards C., Nuno A., Palazy L., Reljic S., Riera P., Skrbinsek T. (2010) New directions in Management Strategy Evaluation through cross-fertilisation between fisheries science and terrestrial conservation. Biology Letters 6: 719-722.

Struve J., Lorenzen K., Blanchard J., Maccall A., Bunnefeld N., Bernard R., Singh N., Edwards C.T.T., Matthiopoulos J., Royer F., Borger L., Ozgul A., Hortal J., Van Moorter B. and Yesson C. (2010) Lost in space? Searching for directions in the spatial modelling of individuals, populations and species ranges. Biology Letters 6: 575-578.

Agnew D.J., Grove P., Peatman T., Burn R. and Edwards C.T.T. (2010) Estimating optimal observer coverage in the Antarctic krill fishery. CCAMLR Science 17: 139-154.

Hillary R.M., Edwards C.T.T., Mitchell R.E. and Agnew D.J. (2010) Length-based assessment of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) in sub-area 48.3. CCAMLR Science 17: 129-137.

Agnew D.J., Edwards C.T.T., Hillary R., Mitchell R. and L´opez Abell ´an L.J. (2009) Status of the coastal stocks of Dissostichus spp. in East Antarctica (Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2). CCAMLR Science 16: 71-100.

Edwards C.T.T., Rademeyer R.A., Butterworth D.S. and Plaga´nyi E´ .E. (2009) Investigating the consequences of Marine Protected Areas for the South African deepwater hake (Merluccius paradoxus) resource. ICES Journal of Marine Science 66: 72-81.

Edwards C.T.T. and Plaga´nyi E´ .E. (2008) Participatory assessment of the South African abalone resource and its impact on predicted population trajectories. South African Journal of Science 104(5): 185-191.

Edwards C.T.T., Holmes E.C., Pybus O.G., Wilson D.J., Viscidi R.P., Abrams E.J., Phillips R.E. and Drummond A.J. (2006) Evolution of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus envelope gene is dominated by purifying selection. Genetics 174: 1441-1453.

Edwards C.T.T., Frater A.J., McCarthy N., Fox J., Brown H., Milicic A., Mackie N., Pillay T., Drijfhout J.W., Dustan S., Clarke J.R., Holmes E.C., Zhang H.-T., Pfafferott K., Goulder P.J., McClure M.O., Weber J., Phillips R.E. and Fidler S. (2006) Passive sexual transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 variants and adaptation in new hosts. Journal of Virology 80(14): 7226-7234.

Asquith B., Edwards C.T.T., Lipsitch M. and McLean A.R. (2006) Inefficient Cytotoxic T Lymphocytemediated killing of HIV-1-infected cells in vivo. PloS Biology 4(4): e90.

Edwards C.T.T., Holmes E.C., Wilson D.J., Viscidi R.P., Abrams E.J., Phillips R.E. and Drummond A.J. (2006) Population genetic estimation of the loss of genetic diversity during horizontal transmission of HIV-1. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 28.

Edwards C.T.T., Milicic A., Hue S., Fox J., Brown H., Pillay T., Drijfhout J.W., Weber J.N., Holmes E.C., Fidler S.J., Zhang H.-T. and Phillips R.E. (2005) Sexual transmission of single Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 virions encoding highly polymorphic multisite Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte escape variants. Journal of Virology 79(22): 13953-13962.

Edwards C.T.T., Pfafferott K.J., Goulder P.J.R., Phillips R.E. and Holmes E.C. (2005) Intrapatient escape in the A*0201-restricted epitope SLYNTVATL drives evolution of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 at the population level. Journal of Virology 79(14): 9363-9366.

Leslie A., Kavanagh D., Honeyborne I., Pfafferott K., Edwards C.T.T., Pillay T., Hilton L., Thobakgale C., Ramduth D., Draenert R., Le Gall S., Luzzi G., Edwards A., Brander C., Sewell A., Moore S., Mullins J., Moore C., Mallal S., Bhardwaj N., Yusim K., Phillips R., Klenerman P., Korber B., Kiepiela P., Walker B. and Goulder P. (2005) Transmission and accumulation of CTL escape variants drive negative associations between HIV polymorphisms and HLA. Journal of Experimental Medicine 201(6): 891-902.

Oxenius A., Price D.A., Trkola A., Edwards C.T.T., Gostick E., Zhang H.-T., Easterbrook P.J., Tun T., Johnson A., Waters A., Holmes E.C. and Phillips R.E. (2004) Loss of viral control in early HIV-1 infection temporally associated with sequential escape from CD8+ T cell responses and decrease in HIV-1-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell frequencies. Journal of Infectious Disease 190: 713-721.