A5029116145- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Ombudsman and Human Rights
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Rural development and sustainability
- Forest Management and Policy
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2019-2024
Aarhus University
2021-2024
Arctic Research Centre
2023
University of Liverpool
2014-2017
University of York
2014
Birds populations allied in abundance Changes climate can cause of species to decline, increase, or remain steady. Stephens et al. looked across common birds Europe and the United States. Despite many differences between two regions, expectations about how a might respond change did predict actual responses. Species predicted benefit from increasing temperatures, their associated effects, tended whereas those be negatively affected declined. Thus, even widely varying ecological conditions...
Reported insect declines have dramatically increased the global demand for standardized monitoring data. Image-based can generate such data cost-efficiently and non-invasively. However, extracting ecological from images is more challenging insects than vertebrates because of their small size great diversity. Deep learning facilitates fast accurate detection identification, but lack training coveted deep models a major obstacle application. We present large annotated image dataset...
Recent decades have seen a surge in awareness about insect pollinator declines. Social bees receive the most attention, but flower-visiting species are lesser known, non-bee insects. Nocturnal flower visitors, e.g. moths, especially difficult to observe and largely ignored pollination studies. Clearly, achieving balanced monitoring of all taxa represents major scientific challenge. Here, we use time-lapse cameras for season-wide, day-and-night surveillance
Cameras and computer vision are revolutionising the study of insects, creating new research opportunities within agriculture, epidemiology, evolution, ecology monitoring biodiversity. However, diversity insects close resemblances many species a major challenge for image-based species-level classification. Here, we present an algorithm to hierarchically classify from images, leveraging simple taxonomy (1) specimens across multiple taxonomic ranks simultaneously, (2) identify lowest rank at...
Automated sensors have potential to standardize and expand the monitoring of insects across globe. As one most scalable fastest developing sensor technologies, we describe a framework for automated, image-based nocturnal insects—from development field deployment workflows data processing publishing. Sensors comprise light attract insects, camera collecting images computer scheduling, storage processing. Metadata is important sampling schedules that balance capture relevant ecological...
Global declines in pollinator populations and associated services make it imperative to identify sensitively manage valuable habitats. Coastal habitats such as saltmarshes can support extensive flowering meadows, but their importance for pollinators, how this varies with land-use intensity, is poorly understood. We hypothesised that provide important bee foraging habitat, livestock grazing either suppresses or enhances its value by reducing the abundance - increasing diversity of plants. To...
The seasonal migrations of insects involve a substantial displacement biomass with significant ecological and economic consequences for regions departure arrival. Remote sensors have played pivotal role in revealing the magnitude general direction bioflows above 150 m. Nevertheless, takeoff descent activity below this height is poorly understood. Our lidar observations elucidate low-height dusk movements detailed information southern Sweden from May to July, during yearly northward migration...
Abstract To predict how biodiversity will respond to global change, it is crucial understand the relative roles of abiotic drivers and biotic interactions in driving associations between disparate taxa. It particularly challenging diversity–diversity links across domains habitats, because data are rarely available for multiple above‐ below‐ground taxa sites. Here, we analyse from a unique set gathered variety oceanic temperate terrestrial habitats Wales, comprising 300 sites with co‐located...
To better understand the status and trends of insects other arthropods, emerging technologies like image recognition are developing rapidly. This is creating a strong demand for efficient accurate algorithms detection localization arthropods in images. Existing models have modest performance do not generalise well to variation scale, appearance density specimens, or imaging conditions. Consequently, each new application often requires manual labeling training data model training, which...
Restoring intensive agricultural fields to species-rich semi-natural grassland could have profound effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, only a minority of European agri-environment scheme funding is currently devoted such measures (< 1% in the UK) too few studies compare restored habitats with that appropriate control reference sites. As result, there lack advice for land managers how implement habitat restoration maximise conservation outcomes, especially insects. We...
Abstract It is uncertain whether Protected Areas (PAs) will conserve high abundances of species as their distributions and shift in response to climate change. We analyzed large datasets for 57 butterfly 42 odonate (including four that have recently colonized Britain). found 73 94 with sufficient data analysis were more abundant inside than outside PAs the historical parts British distributions, showing retained conservation value. A significant majority (61 99 species) was also regions they...
Abstract Pollinating insects provide economic value by improving crop yield. They are also functionally and culturally important across ecosystems outside of cropland. To understand landscape‐level drivers pollinator declines, guide policy intervention to reverse studies must cover (a) multiple insect plant taxa (b) a range agricultural semi‐natural land uses. Furthermore, in an era woodland restoration initiatives rewilding ideologies, the contribution woody linear features (WLFs; e.g....
Summary Agri‐environment scheme ( AES ) interventions are a major avenue for habitat creation and restoration across Europe. To maximize benefits biodiversity, sometimes spatially targeted relative to existing semi‐natural SNH ). However, the evidence base effective spatial targeting is deficient; studies until now have collated data several taxa regions, resulting in non‐specific advice that only useful at regional scale. We present field study using macro‐moths (Lepidoptera) test (i)...
High resolution monitoring is fundamental to understand and predict the dynamics of ecological communities in an era global change biodiversity declines. While real-time fully automated abiotic components ecosystems has been possible for some time, biotic at different organizational scales, e.g. from individual behaviours traits abundance distribution species, far more challenging. Recent technological advancements offer potential solutions achieve this through: (i) increasingly affordable...
The European Union’s ‘Green Deal’ proposes an ambitious roadmap towards climate neutrality by 2050 and the adoption of a circular economy. Functional AgroBiodiversity (FAB) measures, which balance food production with minimised impacts on nature, are promising way to achieve this farmland. Here, we undertake rapid evidence assessment highlight Agro-Biodiversity management measures help realise biodiversity, neutrality, efficiency in use natural resources We report effectiveness 10 common FAB...
Abstract Quantitative models play an increasing role in exploring the impact of global change on biodiversity. To win credibility and trust, they need validating. We show how expert knowledge can be used to assess a large number empirical species niche constructed for British vascular plant bryophyte flora. Key outcomes were (a) scored assessments each modeled axis combination, (b) guidance needing further development, (c) exploration trade‐off between presenting more complex model...
Abstract Microclimate—proximal climatic variation at scales of metres and minutes—can exacerbate or mitigate the impacts climate change on biodiversity. However, most microclimate studies are temperature centric, do not consider meteorological factors such as sunshine, hail snow. Meanwhile, remote cameras have become a primary tool to monitor wild plants animals, even micro‐scales, deep learning tools rapidly convert images into ecological data. applications for wildlife imagery focused...
As species’ ranges shift to track climate change, conservationists increasingly recognize the need consider connectivity when designating protected areas (PAs). In fragmented landscapes, some habitat patches are more important than others in maintaining connectivity, and methods needed for their identification. Here, using Condatis methodology, we model range expansion through an adaptation of circuit theory. Specifically, map ‘flow’ 16 conservation priority networks England, quantifying how...
Abstract. The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) ran from 2013 until 2016 was probably the most comprehensive programme of ecological study ever undertaken at a national scale in Wales. aimed to (1) set up an evaluation environmental effects agri-environment scheme (2) quantify status trends across wider countryside focus on outcomes for climate change mitigation, biodiversity, soil water quality, woodland expansion, cultural landscapes. As such, GMEP included large...
Relationships between area, heterogeneity and species richness are fundamental concepts in ecology yet questions remain about how area tradeoff (AHTO) to constrain biodiversity. Although there is growing evidence for unimodal diversity relationships (HDR's) an AHTO, tests of the concept consequences across a landscape‐scale gradient human‐modified ecosystems rare. Using data from national (Wales) field survey we analysed environmental plant (α γ). We used ordination produce composite metric...