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Dr Aimeric Blaud

Lecturer
School of Applied Sciences

0131 455 3383

A.Blaud@napier.ac.uk

Barbara Macfarlane MRSB

Research Student
School of Applied Sciences

B.Macfarlane@napier.ac.uk

Mr Callum Egan

Research Technician
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

0131 455 2790

callum.egan@napier.ac.uk

Dr David Smith SFHEA, MRSB

Lecturer
School of Applied Sciences

0131 455 5644

D.Smith@napier.ac.uk

Dr Emilio Pagani-Nunez

Lecturer
School of Applied Sciences

0131 455 3812

E.Pagani-Nunez@napier.ac.uk

Dr Gavin Ballantyne

Lecturer
School of Applied Sciences

0131 455 5669

G.Ballantyne@napier.ac.uk

Giulio Biondi

School of Applied Sciences

Dr Imi Dencer-Brown

Lecturer

0131 455 3556

I.Dencer-Brown@napier.ac.uk

Dr James Thorburn

Associate Professor
School of Applied Sciences

J.Thorburn2@napier.ac.uk

Dr Jason Gilchrist

Lecturer
School of Applied Sciences

0131 455 2394

j.gilchrist@napier.ac.uk

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Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds

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Pack, A. A., Herman, L. M., Spitz, S. S., Craig, A. S., Hakala, S., Deakos, M. H., …Lowe, C. (2012)

Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds. Animal Behaviour, 84(4), 983-993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.024

Assortative pairing, and its relation to mate choice, has rarely been documented in mammals. Using data collected from 1998-2007, we investigated size-assortative pairing as i...

Habitat networks – reviewing the evidence base

Report

Briers, R. (2011)

Habitat networks – reviewing the evidence base. Scottish Natural Heritage

Resightings of humpback whales in Hawaiian waters over spans of 10-32 years: Site fidelity, sex ratios, calving rates, female demographics, and the dynamics of social and behavioral roles of individuals

Journal Article

Herman, L. M., Pack, A. A., Rose, K., Craig, A., Herman, E. Y. K., Hakala, S., & Milette, A. (2011)

Resightings of humpback whales in Hawaiian waters over spans of 10-32 years: Site fidelity, sex ratios, calving rates, female demographics, and the dynamics of social and behavioral roles of individuals. Marine Mammal Science, 27(4), 736-768. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00441.x

From a database of approximately 5,000 Hawaiian humpback whales identified photographically between 1976 and 2010, we extracted 71 males and 39 females having resighting spans...

Aquatic insects: challenges to populations

Book

J. Lancaster, & R. A. Briers (Eds.), (2007)

Aquatic insects: challenges to populations. doi:10.1079/9781845933968.0000

This book considers some of the potential influences on individuals and populations (e.g. environmental stresses, parasites, cannibalism, dispersal limitations), the 'cunning ...

Dissecting spatial patterns in lake macrophyte communities at multiple spatial scales

Conference Proceeding

Briers, R. (2006)

Dissecting spatial patterns in lake macrophyte communities at multiple spatial scales. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual IALE(UK) Conference (110-115

Abstract not available.

Optimal Selection of a Connected Reserve Network.

Journal Article

Önal, H., & Briers, R. A. (2006)

Optimal Selection of a Connected Reserve Network. Operations Research, 54(2), 379-388. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1060.0272

Spatial considerations are important in conservation reserve design. A particularly important spatial requirement is the connectivity of selected sites. Direct connections bet...

Phenotype-environment matching in the shore crab (Carcinus maenas)

Journal Article

Todd, P. A., Briers, R. A., Ladle, R. J., & Middleton, F. (2006)

Phenotype-environment matching in the shore crab (Carcinus maenas). Marine Biology, 148(6), 1357-1367. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-0159-2

The shore crab (Carcinus maenas) exhibits a range of carapace pattern polymorphisms, but little is known regarding their function or maintenance. If patterns represent some fo...

Spatial patterns in pond invertebrate communities: separating environmental and distance effects

Journal Article

Briers, R. A., & Biggs, J. (2005)

Spatial patterns in pond invertebrate communities: separating environmental and distance effects. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 15(6), 549-557. doi:10.1002/aqc.742

1.The nature and extent of spatial pattern in communities has important implications for their dynamics and conservation. Previous studies of pond ecosystems, over relatively ...

Designing a conservation reserve network with minimal fragmentation: A linear integer programming approach

Journal Article

Önal, H., & Briers, R. A. (2005)

Designing a conservation reserve network with minimal fragmentation: A linear integer programming approach. Environmental modeling & assessment, 10(3), 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-005-9009-3

In the biological conservation literature, the optimum reserve site selection problem has often been addressed by using the prototype set covering and maximal covering formula...

The lateral extent of the subsidy from an upland stream to riparian lycosid spiders

Journal Article

Briers, R. A., Cariss, H. M., Geoghegan, R., & Gee, J. H. R. (2005)

The lateral extent of the subsidy from an upland stream to riparian lycosid spiders. Ecography, 28(2), 165-170. doi:10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04020.x

Adult aquatic insects emerging from streams can subsidize riparian food webs, but little is known of the spatial extent of these subsidies. Stable isotope (15N) enrichment of ...

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

2023 - 2025

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: Scottish Natural Heritage | Value: £27,906

Impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution

2023 - 2023

We were approached by Forestry Commission England (FCE) to consider addressing five key questions they had identified as being important in terms of impact of forestry on curlew over the next 5-10 yea...

Funder: Forestry Commission England | Value: £15,037

Optimisation of moorland bird surveys project

2023 - 2023

To analyze existing moorland bird survey data to investigate if there is an optimal (in terms of data quality vs effort level) approach to achieve the aims of detecting, and estimating breeding densit...

Funder: Forestry Commission England | Value: £13,956

Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves

2023 - 2023

The high costs of measuring carbon stocks and increments in subtidal seagrass beds mean that fully accredited seagrass carbon projects, using current standards and protocols, are not usually financial...

Value: £10,325

Longitudinal variation in methane incorporation into stream food webs

2022 - 2022

Application for SUPER DTP Research Experience Placement student. This is an 8-week research experience internship. The funding covers employment of the student for the period of the project and £500 t...

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £3,712

Methane-derived carbon in upland stream foodwebs: understanding the links

2022 - 2023

The work forms part of a SUPER-DTP funded PhD project. The present application relates to the use of stable isotope analysis to elucidate pathways for MDC incorporation in upland streams.

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

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Developing evidence-based guidelines on surveying and mitigation against impacts of infrastructure projects for the protected European badger Meles meles

2022 - date

Barbara Macfarlane | Director of Studies: Dr Patrick White | Second Supervisor: Prof Robert Briers

Marine Soundscapes and eDNA for Assessing Biodiversity and Functioning of Re-establishing European Flat Oyster Reefs, Ostrea edulis

2021 - date

Mr Magnus Janson | Director of Studies: Prof Karen Diele | Second Supervisor: Prof Emma Hart

The effects of anthropogenic noise playbacks on marine invertebrates

2014 - 2018

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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Edinburgh Napier research into sustainable intensification makes font page of national newspaper

18 March 2019

A research project lead by Dr Patrick White in the School of Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues at Scotland's Rural College and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew made the front page of ...

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Seminar with Professor Mark Huxham (Edinburgh Napier University) on understanding the meaning of catastrophe in southern Kenya

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)

27 November 2019

Training course: "An Evidence-Based Approach to Camera Trapping"

The Environment Agency Office King’s Meadow House King's Meadow Road Reading RG1 8DQ

22 March 2019

Visiting researcher - Dr William Sanderson (Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University/ Co-Director of Research at St Abbs Marine Station) to present research on oysters and whiskey

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)

23 January 2019

Training course: "An evidence-based approach to camera-trapping"

RZSS Edinburgh Zoo 134 Corstorphine Rd, Edinburgh EH12 6TS

15 September 2017

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Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds

Habitat networks – reviewing the evidence base

Resightings of humpback whales in Hawaiian waters over spans of 10-32 years: Site fidelity, sex ratios, calving rates, female demographics, and the dynamics of social and behavioral roles of individuals

Aquatic insects: challenges to populations

Dissecting spatial patterns in lake macrophyte communities at multiple spatial scales

Optimal Selection of a Connected Reserve Network.

Phenotype-environment matching in the shore crab (Carcinus maenas)

Spatial patterns in pond invertebrate communities: separating environmental and distance effects

Designing a conservation reserve network with minimal fragmentation: A linear integer programming approach

The lateral extent of the subsidy from an upland stream to riparian lycosid spiders

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Restoring Gambian riverine mangrove wetlands

Blue Carbon and Green Seagrass in Kenya

Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems

Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient

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

Impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution

Optimisation of moorland bird surveys project

Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves

Longitudinal variation in methane incorporation into stream food webs

Methane-derived carbon in upland stream foodwebs: understanding the links

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Developing evidence-based guidelines on surveying and mitigation against impacts of infrastructure projects for the protected European badger Meles meles

Marine Soundscapes and eDNA for Assessing Biodiversity and Functioning of Re-establishing European Flat Oyster Reefs, Ostrea edulis

The effects of anthropogenic noise playbacks on marine invertebrates

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Seminar with Professor Mark Huxham (Edinburgh Napier University) on understanding the meaning of catastrophe in southern Kenya