Professor Jane Stout
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Department of Botany,
School of Natural Sciences,
Trinity College Dublin,
Dublin2, Ireland
Email: stoutj@tcd.ie
Tel: +353 1 8963761
Research
My research expertise is in the field of ecology, with an emphasis on human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. I seek to understand the processes and consequences of changes in land management and non-native species invasions, using plant-pollinator interactions as a model system. There is global concern over loss of pollination services and my research informs biodiversity conservation and agriculture, both nationally and internationally. I employ field-based experimental studies combined with laboratory analyses to characterise insect behaviour, plant breeding systems, biodiversity and conservation of pollinators and their impacts on plant population dynamics. My research programme is inter-disciplinary: my own expertise covers both botanical and zoological fields, but I also collaborate widely with geographers, socio-economists, chemists and molecular biologists, both nationally and internationally.
Current Research and Research Opportunities
I currently supervise seven postgraduate students in TCD, while several postgraduate students have graduated under my supervision; Current students; Past students. I am the co-ordinator of a national project on biodiversity and ecosystem services: www.simbiosys.ie, and Director of the Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research: www.tcd.ie/tcbr
Teaching
JF/1st year:
BY1102 Introduction to Evolution Biodiversity and the Environment (Co-ordinator)
JS/3rd year:
BO3106 Statistics and Experimental Design (Co-ordinator)
BO3121 Field Skills in Plant and Environmental Science (Canary Islands) (Field course co-ordinator)
ZO3084 Entomology (Co-ordinator)
BO3109 Seminars, Tutorials and Workshops
SS/4th year:
BO4107 Plant-Animal Interactions (Co-ordinator)
BO4102 Plant Community Ecology
BO4100/ES4014 Research Project Research Project
BO4106 Seminars, Tutorials and Workshops
MSc:
BD7056 Human-Biodiversity Interactions (Co-ordinator)
Plus Desk Studies, Project Planning and Research Projects
Selected Publications
Power EF, Kelly DL, Stout JC (2012) Organic farming and landscape structure: effects on insect-pollinated plant diversity in intensively managed grasslands. PLoS ONE 7(5): e38073. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038073
Ollerton J, Price V, Armbruster WS, Memmott J, Watts S, Waser NM, Totland Ø, Goulson D, Alarcón R, Stout JC, Tarrant S (2012) Overplaying the role of honey bees as pollinators: A comment on Aebi and Neumann (2011). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 141 – 142
Stout JC (2011) Plant invasions: their threats in the Irish context. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 111B: 135 - 141.
Dietzsch AC, Stanley DA, Stout JC (2011) Relative abundance of an invasive alien plant affects native pollination processes. Oecologia, 167:469–479
Duffy KJ, Stout JC (2011) Effects of conspecific and heterospecific floral density on the pollination of two related rewarding orchids. Plant Ecology, 212: 1397-1406
Power EF, Stout JC (2011) Organic dairy farming: impacts on insect-flower interaction networks and hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) pollination. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 561–569
Mayer C, Adler L, Armbruster S, Dafni A, Eardley C, Huang SQ, Kevan P, Ollerton J, Packer L, Ssymank A, Stout J, Potts SG (2011) Pollination ecology in the 21st century: key questions for future research. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 3, 8-23
Dauber J, Jones MB, Stout JC, (2010) The impact of biomass crop cultivation on temperate biodiversity. Global Change Biology: Bioenergy 2: 289–309
Vilà M, Bartomeus I, Dietzsch AC, Petanidou T, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stout JC, Tscheulin T (2009) Invasive plant integration into native plant-pollinator networks across Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, 276, 3887–3893
Stout JC, Morales C (2009) Ecological impacts of invasive alien species on bees. Apidologie 40: 388-409
Milbau A, Stout JC (2008) Factors associated with alien plants transitioning from casual, to naturalized, to invasive. Conservation Biology. 22: 308-317
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