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Stuart Smith
+44 (0)344 928 5428
James Hutton Institute
Errol Road
Dundee
Scotland
DD2 5DA
Biography
Stuart is a plant-soil ecologist at the Institute focusing on how land-use management and restoration influences ecosystem functioning, particularly the impacts of herbivory and fire on plant communities and carbon storage and cycling. Stuart has research experience in a wide range of ecosystems including temperate upland grasslands, oceanic peatlands, tropical savannahs and tropical peatlands. Stuart is currently embedded in the Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme 2022 - 2027 with research areas in upland grazing management and prescribed burning and wildfires.