About me
I am a landscape ecologist with a particular interest in the maintenance of biodiversity in human-modified landscapes. My work covers community ecology, ecoacoustics, nature-based solutions, conservation conflicts and species distribution modelling.
PhD Ecology (University of Stirling, 2020)
MSc Environmental Management (University of Stirling, 2010)
MA Psychology (University of St. Andrews, 2005)
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Leverhulme-funded project "Land sharing vs. land sparing: new insights from ecological-economic modelling". This project evaluates the costs and benefits of different landscape-scale conservation approaches in farmed landscapes.
PhD Project. The long-term conservation of tropical biodiversity is dependent on whether human-modified landscapes can support viable species populations. Species respond very differently to land cover change and this response tends to be mediated by ecological and morphological traits. My PhD explored associations between bird assemblages and landscape structure, and investigated the potential of acoustic technologies for surveying and monitoring ecosystems and wildlife communities.
