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Dr Aimeric Blaud

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School of Applied Sciences

A.Blaud@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Emilio Pagani-Nunez

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School of Applied Sciences

E.Pagani-Nunez@napier.ac.uk

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Dr James Thorburn

Associate Professor
School of Applied Sciences

J.Thorburn2@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Jennifer Dodd

Lecturer
School of Applied Sciences

J.Dodd@napier.ac.uk

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Prof Karen Diele

Professor
School of Applied Sciences

K.Diele@napier.ac.uk

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Prof Mark Huxham PhD PFHEA NTF FRSE

Professor
School of Applied Sciences

M.Huxham@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Matt Wale

Lecturer
School of Applied Sciences

M.Wale@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Michelle Frost

Research Assistant
School of Applied Sciences

M.Frost2@napier.ac.uk

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Dr Pat White FCIEEM FHEA

Associate Professor
School of Applied Sciences

P.White@napier.ac.uk

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Prof Robert Briers

Professor
School of Applied Sciences

R.Briers@napier.ac.uk

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Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population

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Thornton, M., Wilson, D., Leitch, A., Roos, S., & White, P. (in press)

Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population. Bird Study, https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2025.2513542

Capsule: Over three decades, the garden bird community composition in Edinburgh has changed, probably in response to increased garden bird feeding, and this has increased prey...

Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

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Pérez-Granados, C., Funosas, D., Morant, J., Marín, O. H., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. A., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Peña-Rubio, J. M. D. L., Morena, E. G. D. L., Snata-Cruz, M., Nava, P. D. L., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez.Mateos, H., Barrero, A., Traba, J., Osiejuk, T. S., …Sebsatián-González, E. Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

Pérez-Granados, C., Funosas, D., Morant, J., Marín, O. H., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. A., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Peña-Rubio, J. M. D. L., Morena, E. G. D. L., Snata-Cruz, M., Nava, P. D. L., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez.Mateos, H., Barrero, A., Traba, J., Osiejuk, T. S., …Sebsatián-González, E. Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

BirdNET is a popular machine learning tool for automated recognition of bird sounds. Here we evaluate how BirdNET settings affect the model performance both at vocalization an...

The Freshwater Sounds Archive

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Greenhalgh, J. A., Akmentins, M., Boullhesen, M., Brejao, G. L., Bowman, J. C., Briers, R. A., Campbell, K., Clark, A., Coen, M., Desjonqueres, C., Gaston, S., Gottesman, B. L., Jones, I. T., Lahoz-Monfort, J. J., Lindsay, E., Rodriguez, F. M., Navarrete-Mier, F., Norton, M., Las Casas e Novaes, M. C., Okazaki, S., …Looby, A. (2025)

The Freshwater Sounds Archive

Freshwater ecosystems are full of underwater sounds produced by amphibians, aquatic arthropods, reptiles, plants, fishes, and methane bubbles escaping from the sediment. Altho...

PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes

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Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, June)

PEMS: People Experience of Mountain Soundscapes. Paper presented at Forum Alpinum 2024, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

This research delves into the intricate relationship between mountain auditory environments and the mountaineering experience, shedding light on the influence of individual so...

Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles

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Cirtwill, A. R., Wirta, H., Kaartinen, R., Ballantyne, G., Stone, G. N., Cunnold, H., …Roslin, T. (2024)

Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles. Oikos, 2024(4), Article e10301. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10301

Most animal pollination results from plant–insect interactions, but how we perceive these interactions may differ with the sampling method adopted. The two most common methods...

The impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution – a report to the Forestry Commission

McGrory, R., Briers, R., Findlay, M., & White, P. (2024)

The impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution – a report to the Forestry Commission. Forestry Commission

We were commissioned by Forestry Commission (FC) to utilise the large-scale Breeding Waders of English Upland Farmland (BWEUF) data and the wider literature to provide evidenc...

Optimisation of Open-habitat Bird Surveys – a report to the Forestry Commission

Borthwick, M., Findlay, M., Briers, R., & White, P. (2024)

Optimisation of Open-habitat Bird Surveys – a report to the Forestry Commission. Forestry Commission

In the process of offering financial grants to landowners seeking to create new areas of woodland in England, the Forestry Commission (FC) requires surveying of proposed woodl...

Brachyuran Crabs of Brazilian Mangrove and Salt Marsh Ecosystems

Schmidt, A. J., & Diele, K. (2023)

Brachyuran Crabs of Brazilian Mangrove and Salt Marsh Ecosystems. In Y. Schaeffer-Novelli, G. M. D. O. Abuchahla, & G. Cintrón-Molero (Eds.), Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes (179-200). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13486-9_10

Brachyuran crabs are the most conspicuous macrobenthic fauna in Brazilian mangrove forests and salt marshes. This chapter presents basic information about the habitat, spatial...

Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social–ecological systems

Glaser, M., Ferse, S., Christie, P., Diele, K., Dsikowitzky, L., Nordhaus, I., Schlüter, A., Schwerdtner Mañez, K., & Wild, C. (2023)

Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social–ecological systems. In B. Glaeser, & M. Glaser (Eds.), Coastal Management Revisited: Navigating towards Sustainable Human-Nature Relations (83-93). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Tropical coastal and marine social–ecological systems (CM-SES) are diverse, complex and dynamic. They face special challenges as hotspots of biodiversity and centres of popula...

Stable pollination service in a generalist High Arctic community despite the warming climate

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Cirtwill, A., Kaartinen, R., Rasmussen, C., Redr, D., Wirta, H., Olesen, J., …Roslin, T. (in press)

Stable pollination service in a generalist High Arctic community despite the warming climate. Ecological monographs, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1551

Insects provide key pollination services in most terrestrial biomes, but this service depends on a multi-step interaction between insect and plant. An insect needs to visit a ...

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CPD Introduction to Sedge Identification 2025

Open CPD course delivered online , involving up to 20 student learning hours over up to 8 weeks, introduces ecological consultants and land managers to identification of common sedges using botanical ...

Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

West of Scotland Herring Hunt (WOSHH ) 2025

WOSHH 2025 is an addition to the West of West of Scotland Herring Hunt project to allow for spring 2025 e-DNA fieldwork and data analysis. Read more on the Scottishherring.org webpage .

Funder: William Grant Foundation | Value: £27,000

Ivermectin impacts on freshwater organisms in a variable world

The overview of the research objectives is given below. There will be scope for the candidate to adapt and develop these as the project progresses and their expertise as an independent researcher grow...

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £70,432

Methane-derived carbon in urban drainage ponds: characteristics and links to riparian ecosystems

Urban drainage ponds commonly have high methane production, leading to local emissions. Dissolved methane may also act as a carbon source for local food webs, through bacterial methane oxidation, as h...

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

Restoring Gambian riverine mangrove wetlands

community based mangrove restoration in the Gambia, using new techniques to restore salinised flats and working towards carbon accreditation for long term income

Funder: Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy | Value: £95,609

DIRTT 2.0 consultancy

ENU to conduct a further survey to follow-on from our work on the first project. we were a partner on the original EU funded DIRTT project but post-Brexit were not able to participate in this follow-o...

Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems

Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £49,277

Fishy Tales

Fishy Tales is an outdoor theatre and marine species identification event intended to engage public audiences with local marine ecology and the West of Scotland Herring Hunt (WOSHH) research project. ...

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient

The project aims to compare existing methods with a new methodology based on sensor arrays and utilising spatial audio algorithms, which can identify which direction a particular sound comes from and ...

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £27,660

Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound

Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound Herring helped to generate local income, identity, and societal change for centuries in Scotland, but their num...

Funder: NatureScot | Value: £44,814

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The effects of anthropogenic noise playbacks on marine invertebrates

Anthropogenic noise has profoundly changed the acoustic environment of aquatic habitats, and is known to negatively affect many taxa...

Dr Matt Wale | Director of Studies: Prof Karen Diele | Second Supervisor: Prof Robert Briers

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3MT Competition is Open!

3MT Competition is open for submissions! Can you convince non-specialist audiences that your research is really as important as you believe it is? Here’s your chance to find out!

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