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anna davis

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Prof Anna Davies
Prof Celia Holland
Prof Fraser Mitchell
Environmental governance, biodiversity conservation policy and politics
Parasitology, public health
Ecology, palaeocology

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mark-dyer

Aquatic ecology, marine zoology.
Higher plant taxonomy, biodiversity, conservation.
Innovative solutions for buildings, neighbourhoods and cities.

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Andrew Jackson

carol newman

Water and wastewater treatment, river pollution assessment and control, assessment of carbon emissions.
Ecological and evolutionary systems modelling.
Applied microeconometric analysis of individual and household behaviour.

daniel kelly

Ian Donohue

Jane Stout

Plant evolution, tropical plant ecology.
Ecology of communities and metacommunities, aquatic ecosystems, spatial and temporal patterns, perturbations.
Biodiversity and ecology, pollination, entomology, invasive species

john rochford

mike williams

laurence gill

Conservation biology, mammal ecology, ornithology.
Soil respiration and carbon stocks, plant cell anatomy.
Environmental engineering, water management, pollution.

Nicola Marples

Norman allot

patrick wyse jackson

Behavioural and evolutionary ecology
Ecology of surface waters.
Fossil and living bryozoa, geology, palaeontology, palaeoecology.

steve waldren

trevor hodkinson

Dan Bradley

Dan Bradley
Evolutionary biology, plant phenology, genetics.
Plant systematics, molecular biology, population genetics
Genetics

Joanne Rourke

Fabio Boylan

 
Joanne Rourke
Fabio Boylan
 
 
Geography
Pharmacy
 

 

Fellows Emeritus

mike jones

   
Prof David Jeffrey
Dr Julian Reynolds
Climate change, carbon balance, biofuels.
Botany, ecology.
Freshwater ecology.
     
Dr Paul Dowding
   
   
Botany, ecology.
   

 

Research Fellows and Associates

Ainhoa Gonzalez Del Campo

Anke

colby

Environmental planning and policy, spatial analysis, impact assessment
Invasive species, pollination, temperate and tropical forest ecology
Behavioural ecology, urban ecology, invasive species.
 

dave kelly

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Applied fisheries biology.
Badger biology, island biogeography, trophic ecology.
Landscape ecology, global change impacts on biodiversity, agri-environment, plant-soil relationships.
   

michelle-giltrap

Conservation, African ecosystems, flamingo.
Forest ecology (plantation forests and native woodlands), botany, epiphytes.
Ecotoxicology, pollution, marine, water quality.

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Dr Nova Sharkey 
Jesko Zimmermann
Eco-hydrology, turloughs.
Eco-hydrology, turloughs, plant-nutrient dynamics.
Bioenergy crops, soil carbon sequestration, Miscanthus.

 

Research Students

andrew jackson

Angela Stevenson

aoife o'rourke

Andrew Jackson
Angela Stevenson
Aoife O'Rourke
Climate change, biodiversity conservation policy.
Deep-sea ecology, cold-water corals, echinods, marine conservation
Biodiversity, plant-pollinator interactions, priority habitats.

Aude Perdereau

 

brian murphy

Aude Perdereau 
Brian McGuinness
Brian Murphy
mcguinbw@tcd.ie
 
Willow, disease resistance, wood formation, carbon cycle.
Population studies and epidemiological studies of Escallonia leaf spot disease
 
 

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Bryan Kennedy
Christina Campbell 
Daniel Adjei-Boateng
The use of diatoms for the classification of lakes
Bryophytes, monitoring, ex-situ conservation.
Reproductive biology of African freshwater bivalves, population dynamics, production and resource allocation, sustainable exploitation.

Dara Stanley

 

dominika krol

Dara Stanley 
Deirdre McClean
Dominika Krol
kroldj@tcd.ie
Agroecology, biodiversity, plant-pollinator interactions, energy crops.
Examination of the effects of amplified water level fluctuations on the structure and functioning of lake ecosystems
Greenhouse gases, biomass crops
 

Eileen Diskin

Emer Ni Dhuil

Donna Hawthorne
Eileen Diskin
Emer Ní Dhúill
Modelling past and future fire regimes in the Irish uplands
Environmental health, science communication

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Florence Hecq

Erin Jo Tiedeken 
Erna King
Florence Hecq
Pollination ecology, bee nutrition, secondary plant compounds, invasive alien species.
Meiofauna and free-living nematode diversity, salinity gradient effects, transitional waters and environmental quality.
Effects of scale and landscape structure on pollinator diversity and the provision of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
     
Heather Rochford
Helder Pereira
Jennifer Michelle Ronan
Biological Effects of pollution in irish coastal waters
Aquatic ecology, dynamics of nutrients and algae, eutrophication, response of biological populations to water pollution.
Chemical measurements for the assessment of pollution in irish Coastal waters

Maria Long

   
Maria Long 
Thomas Joe Colgan
Keith McMahon
Vegetation and habitat survey and mapping, molluscs in archaeological deposits
Host-parasite interactions, invertebrate genomics, molecular entomology.
Plasticity of foraging strategies in birds
     
Kevin Healy
Laura Foley
Linda Daniels
Linking ecological processes to community patterns using stable isotopes
The effects of anthropogenically fixed nutrients delivered to coastal marine ecosystems via SGD on ecosystem function
Marine bivalve ecophysiology, feeding competition, resource partitioning.
     
Lindsay Hislop
Lisa Egan
Louise Esmonde
eganli@tcd.ie
Examination of the effects of amplified water level fluctuations on primary production in lakes.
Lagorosiphon major, wastewater treatment, biomass production
Sustainable nutrient and metal removal from domestic and industrial wastewaters using submerged macrophytes in temperate
 

luke mcnally

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Loxton
Karen
Luke McNally
Mafalda Viana
The significance of small rodents as sentinels for zoonotic parasites of human importance and vectors of parasites of domestic animals.
Theoretical ecology, population biology, marine turtle conservation.
Fisheries discards, spatio-temporal modelling.

kumar dhamala

marcin

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Man Kumar Dhamala
Marcin Penk
Marjolein Kamermans
Biodiversity conservation, endangered species, indigenous knowledge.
Ecosystem functioning, mysid crustaceans, physicochemical pressures,invasive species, glacial relicts.
Endemic freshwater shrimp, molecular phylogenetics, ecological and morphological divergence.

Maximilian von Sternburg

Melinda Lyons

miles newman

Maximilian von Sternburg 
Melinda Lyons 
Miles Newman
Plant systematics, molecular evolution, amphi-atlantic distribution.
Biodiversity conservation, diversity of flora, petrifying springs.
Biodiversity conservation, forest management.
 

paul egan

 
Patricia Coughlan
Paul Egan
 
pacoughl@tcd.ie
 
Phylogenetics of paclitaxel biosynthesis genes in Taxus baccata, Taxus hybrids and allies (yews)
Secondary plant compounds, invasive alien plants.
 
   

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Ruby Prickett
Saliha Yesim Tunali 
Sarah Mullen 
Freshwater ecology, littoral macroinvertebrates, food-web ecology.
Biodiversity, plant-pollinator interactions, grasslands

Sarah Murnaghan

 

shane mcguinness

Sarah Murnaghan
Sean Kelly
Shane McGuinness
Modelling ecological pressures and responses in a West of Ireland lake
Evolution of passerine birds on Indonesian islands of the Wakatobi 
Human-wildlife conflict, community-based conservation, wildlife value orientations.

Sheila Greene

   
Sheila Greene
Sinead Marley
Susan Olivia Mitchell
smarley@tcd.ie
Phosphorus-induced impairment of aquatic ecosystems: evaluating and predicting spatial differences in vulnerability and recovery
Agricultural and horticultural organic chemicals; freshwater ecosystems, risk assessment
The study of gill disease of cultured Atlantic salmon.

Susannah Cass

Sven Batk

 
Susannah Cass 
Sven Batk
Tamara Jurca
Agroecology, biodiversity, legume crops.
Assessing epiphyte diversity of tropical montane forest in Honduras, Central America along altitudinal gradients - How do climate change and anthropogenic disturbances affect epiphyte diversity?
Freshwater ecology, benthic macroinvertebrates, freshwater Oligochaetes.

Vesela

 

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Vesela Evtimova
Vishnu Mohanan
William Burchill
mohananv@tcd.ie
burchilw@tcd.ie
Freshwater ecology, aquatic invertebrates, water-level fluctuations in lakes
Characterisation of lignin and cellulose formation genes in biomass
Nitrogen fixation, Nitrous oxide, legumes, grasslands

 


Last updated 27 February 2013 by biodiversity@tcd.ie.