Work package |
Sub-project |
Leader |
Students |
1. Landscape conservation – loss and fragmentation in a habitat mosaic |
1.1 Effects of habitat loss & fragmentation on the biodiversity maintenance function of remnant wetland and pond habitats within typical Irish agricultural landscapes |
Simon Harrison & John O’Halloran (UCC) |
Post doc (Tom Gittings UCC)
Ph. D student (UCC) |
Leaders: S. Harrison (UCC), J O’Halloran (UCC), M. Brown (TCD).
Participants: J. Breen (UL), M. Emmerson (UCC), T. Hochstrasser (UCD), D. Kelly (TCD), T. Kelly (UCC), N. Marples (UCC), C. Spillane (UCC), J. Stout (TCD), P.Whelan (UCC), F.O’Gara (UCC) |
1.2 Habitat mosaics and biodiversity at a landscape scale |
Mark Brown (TCD) |
Ph.D student (TCD) |
1.3 Grazing effects on plant and mollusc diversity in woodland and grassland habitats. |
Daniel Kelly (TCD) |
Ph.D student (Maria Long TCD) |
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2. Non-native species – impacts on biodiversity, strategies for management and predictions of future invasions |
2.1 Analysis of effect of zebra mussels on natural community composition in Clare lakes. |
T.K. Mc Carthy (NUIG) |
Ph.D student (NUIG)
Post doc (12 months) (NUIG) |
Leaders: J. Stout (TCD), B. Osborne (UCD)
Participants: T. McCarthy (NUIG), M.Guiry (NUIG), J.Wilson (TCD), E.Gosling (GMIT), M. Jones (TCD), M. Jebb (NBG), J Caffrey (CFB) M. Mulholland (TCD), M. Kelly-Quinn (UCD) |
2.2 Effect of invasive plant species on native biodiversity & the interaction with climate change. |
Bruce Osborne (UCD) |
Ph.D student (Maria Angeles Rodrigues Tunon UCD) |
2.3. Predicting plant invasion – which taxa are the future invasive aliens. |
Jane Stout (TCD) |
Post doc (Ann Milbau TCD) |
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3. Pollution as a driver of biodiversity change – impacts, indicators and long-term monitoring. |
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Tasman Crowe (UCD) & Ken Irvine (TCD) |
Ph.D student (Javier Atalah Jatalah UCD) |
Ken Irvine & Jim Wilson (TCD) |
Post doc (Constance O’Toole) (TCD) |
Leaders: T.Crowe (UCD), K.Irvine (TCD)
Participants: M. Kelly-Quinn (UCD), J.O’Halloran (UCC), D. McGrath (GMIT), F.O’Beirn (MI), K.McCarthy (NUIG), J.Wilson (TCD), T.Harrington (UL), R.Otte (UCD), F.Igoe (ICCG), D. Stengal (NUIG), NPWS, EPA & Clare CoCo. |
John O’Halloran (UCC) |
Summer bursary desk study |
Francis O’Beirne (MI) |
Summer bursary desk study |
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4. Natural resource exploitation and global change |
4.1 Natural resource exploitation and global change |
Mike Guiry & John Breen |
Ph.D student (NUIG) |
Leaders: M. Guiry (NUIG), J. Breen (UL)
Participants: D. Stengel (NUIG), B.Osborne (UCD), M.Jones (TCD) T. McCarthy (NUIG) |
4.2 An evaluation of the effects of predicted climate change on sustainable harvesting of the intertidal key primary producer, A. nodosum. |
D. Stengel (NUIG) |
Ph.D student |
Cross-cutting project 1
Biodiversity politics: planning & public understanding |
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Anna Davies (TCD) |
Ph.D student (Rachel Kavanagh TCD) |
Cross cutting project 2
An expandable web-enabled organism inventory and keys to the macrophytes of Co. Clare and the Aran Islands |
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J. Parnell (TCD) & M. Guiry (NUIG) |
Research assistant (TCD)
Research Assistant (NUIG) |
Thematic group |
Species distributions, past, present and future |
Tom Hayden (UCD), S. Waldren (TCD) |
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