Dr Isabel Jones

Lecturer

Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

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Email i.l.jones@stir.ac.uk
Telephone+44 (0)1786 466541

ORCID 0000-0002-8361-1370

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About me

I am a community ecologist, with broad interests in conservation biology and conservation conflict research.

My BSc. (hons.) was at the University of Plymouth (2005-2008) and I completed a MRes degree at Imperial College London (2011-12) before undertaking my PhD at Stirling (2013-17). I am now a part-time lecturer at the University of Stirling, and am the Vice Chair of the British Ecological Society Scottish Policy Group.

Research

My research interests are varied, and encompass the biodiversity impacts of large infrastructure, conservation conflicts, tropical forest ecology, and carbon dynamics.

My PhD focused on the biodiversity impacts of hydropower in Amazonia, and the carbon dynamics of secondary forests in Panama. I continue to pursue research under the broad umbrella of biodiversity response to environmental change and anthropogenic disturbance, and collaborate with researchers in the UK, USA, Brazil, China, and Panama.

As a Postdoc I developed my research skills and interests in conservation conflicts. For example, I worked with project partners in Kazakhstan and the UN-AEWA to assess motivations for the illegal hunting of lesser white-fronted geese. I also work with Scottish farmers to understand their values and preferences in terms of managing the goose-agriculture conflict in Orkney.

Outputs

Article

Above- and belowground carbon stocks are decoupled in secondary tropical forests and are positively related to forest age and soil nutrients respectively

Jones IL, DeWalt SJ, Lopez OR, Bunnefeld L, Pattison Z & Dent DH (2019) Above- and belowground carbon stocks are decoupled in secondary tropical forests and are positively related to forest age and soil nutrients respectively. Science of The Total Environment, 697, Art. No.: 133987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133987

Article

Major dams and the challenge of achieving “No Net Loss” of biodiversity in the tropics

Jones IL & Bull JW (2019) Major dams and the challenge of achieving “No Net Loss” of biodiversity in the tropics. Sustainable Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1997

Article

Instability of insular tree communities in an Amazonian mega-dam is driven by impaired recruitment and altered species composition

Jones I, Peres C, Benchimol M, Bunnefeld L & Dent D (2019) Instability of insular tree communities in an Amazonian mega-dam is driven by impaired recruitment and altered species composition. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56 (3), pp. 779-791. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13313

Letter

Decision Trees for Data Publishing May Exacerbate Conservation Conflict

Minderman J, Cusack JJ, Duthie AB, Jones IL, Pozo RA, Rakotonarivo OS & Bunnefeld N (2019) Decision Trees for Data Publishing May Exacerbate Conservation Conflict. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3, p. 318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0804-7

Article

GMSE: an R package for generalised management strategy evaluation

Duthie AB, Cusack JJ, Jones IL, Minderman J, Nilsen EB, Pozo RA, Rakotonarivo OS, Van Moorter B & Bunnefeld N (2018) GMSE: an R package for generalised management strategy evaluation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9 (12), pp. 2396-2401. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13091

Research Report

Assessing Motivations for the Illegal Killing of Lesser White-fronted Geese at Key Sites in Kazakhstan (2017)

Jones I, Whytock R & Bunnefeld N (2017) Assessing Motivations for the Illegal Killing of Lesser White-fronted Geese at Key Sites in Kazakhstan (2017). UN-AEWA. AEWA Lesser White-fronted Goose International Working Group Report Series, 6. Bonn, Germany. https://www.unep-aewa.org/en/publication/assessing-motivations-illegal-killing-lesser-white-fronted-geese-key-sites-kazakhstan

Article

Woody lianas increase in dominance and maintain compositional integrity across an Amazonian dam-induced fragmented landscape

Jones IL, Peres CA, Benchimol M, Bunnefeld L & Dent DH (2017) Woody lianas increase in dominance and maintain compositional integrity across an Amazonian dam-induced fragmented landscape. PLoS ONE, 12 (10), Art. No.: e0185527. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185527

Article

Extinction debt on reservoir land-bridge islands

Jones IL, Bunnefeld N, Jump A, Peres CA & Dent D (2016) Extinction debt on reservoir land-bridge islands. Biological Conservation, 199, pp. 75-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.04.036

Article

Quantifying habitat impacts of natural gas infrastructure to facilitate biodiversity offsetting

Jones IL, Bull JW, Milner-Gulland EJ, Esipov AV & Suttle KB (2014) Quantifying habitat impacts of natural gas infrastructure to facilitate biodiversity offsetting. Ecology and Evolution, 4 (1), pp. 79-90. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.884

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