Aberdeen Project Team

Professor Xavier Lambin leads and coordinates the ECOCYCLES project. Xavier is a population ecologist with an interest for predator prey, plant herbivore and disease host interactions, as well as in dispersal and conservation biology. He performs research on ecosystem processes involving cyclical small mammal population cycles of small mammals in the British uplands. He documented the gradual dampening of such cycles in the UK and its impact on predators relying on voles as their prey. He also directs a very large community based program blending conservation delivery and research that is focussed on eradicating American mink, an invasive alien species affecting riparian fauna, and especially the endangered water vole in the UK.

Personal page:http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ibes/staff/x.lambin

Steve Redpath is Professor of Conservation Biology at the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability, a joint centre between the MI and Aberdeen University. He is a Population Ecologist and Conservation Biologist who has worked extensively on raptors and game birds throughout Europe. Redpath co-led the EU Concerted Action REGHAB (Reconciling Game bird Hunting and Biodiversity) and the human-wildlife conflict work package of the RCUK-funded UKPopNET. Redpath has published ~75 papers including in Nature, edited a book on raptor conservation and is an Associate Editor of IBIS.

Personal page: http://www.aces.ac.uk/people/details.php?id=s.redpath

Dr Mark Reed is contributing to Work Package 5, helping develop methods for stakeholder engagement and an analysis of the pathways through which science reaches policy and practice. He is an interdisciplinary environmental researcher, who works with stakeholders to better understand, monitor and adapt to environmental change in a range of developed and developing world contexts, mainly focusing on preventing and overcoming land degradation in mountain and desert regions. He is currently investigating mechanisms through which knowledge exchange occurs in a range of other contexts and writing a book on the subject, titled “Communicating Research for Impact”.

Personal page: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/geography/staff/personal_pages/staff.php?page=reedm

Dr Alex Millon has been a post doctoral research fellow at Aberdeen University since 2007. His main them of research focuses on the quantification of ecological processes underpinning the dynamics of predator populations in variable environements. Alex is a Co-Investigator on Ecocycles whose main task is to characterise the functional relationship between prey abundance and predator vital rates so as to feed matrix projection models

Personal page: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci/staff/details/a.millon

Dr Thomas Cornulier

Personal page: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci/staff/details/cornulier

Dr Rosalind Bryce is a postdoctoral researcher at the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability. She has a background in ecological research and conservation biology and has worked extensively in the Scottish uplands on native species conservation and improving management strategies for invasive species. She has experience of working with stakeholders and volunteers in conservation management. Her interests include using participatory and interdisciplinary approaches to improve applied conservation and decision making related to management practice and policy.

Peronsal page: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci/staff/details/r.bryce