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Maria’s work centres on the socio-economic aspects of global changes, including climate change, and land-use and landscape changes, with a particular focus on the resilience of social-ecological systems, multifunctional and sustainable management and use of natural assets. This includes work on the institutional aspects and economics of tackling climate change through LULUCF, the role of woodlands and forestry in the development of marginalised rural areas and communities, with a special focus on mountain regions, evaluation of ecosystem services, stakeholder evaluation and public attitudes to
Most of Stephen's work at BioSS is related to some kind of mathematical modelling, and he has worked on a wide variety of different projects, including: Stochastic agent-based modelling of the transmission of the contagious lung cancer Ovine Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma (OPA, also known as Jaagsiekte) within a typical Scottish sheep flock. Modelling the spread of invasive alien plant species in the U.K. as part of the EU-funded ALARM project. Using resource competition models to help understand the relationship between diversity and stability in plant communities. Assessing collision risk for
Francoise is a Senior Research at SRUC, and her main research interest is the development of scientific approaches for the study of animals as whole sentient beings (i.e. as subjects rather than objects), bringing insights from philosophy of mind and social psychology and anthropology into the study of animal emotion. In collaboration with colleagues from SRUC and other institutes, Francoise has developed and validated a methodology for the study of animal expressivity (body language) and subjective experience, generally referred to as ‘Qualitative Behaviour Assessment’ (QBA). Her research
David is a Research Leader in Cell and Molecular Sciences at the James Hutton Institute. His current research interests include: Development and exploitation of genetic markers (SSR, effector gene sequences) for examining the population biology, epidemiology and management of Phytophthora infestans (potato late blight). Co-ordinator of pathogen data for European project examining populations of Phytophthora infestans ( Euroblight). See data release on 2013-16 population " Blight mapped in Europe" and maps. Evolution and population genetics of the genus Phytophthora. Use of metabarcoding to
Ingo's research aims to identify and clone more durable resistances towards major potato pathogen. Current projects include: Identification and cloning of new genetic variations in Solanum species for resistance to Phytophthora infestans. Identification of the Phytophthora infestans effectors underpinning Ph2 and Ph3 resistance in tomato.Identification of potato NB-LRR genes and development of a second generation sequencing approach to clone functional R genes more rapidly Phytophthora infestans effector Avr3a diversity and function. Enhancing the recognitions specificity of known Solanum
Jean Robertson is an Infrared Spectroscopist and Head of the IR Section of the Analytical Group at the Institute. She has worked at the Institute in the IR Section since 2004, becoming head of the section in 2005, which encompasses both the analytical techniques of FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy and NIR (Near Infrared) spectroscopy.
With a background in behavioural and evolutionary ecology, Lucy is an animal ecologist with an interest in multi-trophic and multi-ecosystem interactions. She currently focuses on three contrasting systems to address questions about connectivity and cascading effects through ecosystems: 1. Ticks and tick-borne pathogens, with a particular focus on identifying the environmental risk factors and potential control methods of Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia, the bacterial complex that causes Lyme disease, and Louping ill virus. Lucy addresses questions such as: What are the climate change implications
Andy is a Molecular Fungal Ecologist at the James Hutton Institute, with a major focus on the roles of fungi in the environment, in particular mutualistic soil fungi that are essential for the healthy growth of most terrestrial plant species. His varied research topics mirror the diversity of fungi as a group and the many functional roles that they carry out in most ecosystems. A key aspect of his work is the detection and identification of fungi in environmental samples. Since even those species that produce visible structures above ground can present considerable problems for identification
Andrea Britton is a senior post-doctoral research scientist in the Ecological Sciences Group. Andrea's primary interests lie in the biodiversity and functioning of upland and especially alpine ecosystems, and the changes occuring in these ecosystems as a result of human influences including pollutant (nitrogen and sulphur) deposition and climate change.