Research Group
Postdoctoral Researchers
Current postdocs:
Albert Vilà-Cabrera: 2018-2021, Understanding the structure, function and persistence of relict populations under climate change. Funded by a University of Stirling Anniversary Fellowship. Previously funded by an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual (IF-EF) Fellowship from 2016-2018.
Past postdocs:
Paloma Ruiz Benito: 2014-2016, Impacts of drought-induced effects on species demography and distribution: potential vegetation shifts and the role of functional diversity under climate change. Funded by Plant Fellows and University of Stirling
Sarah Greenwood: 2014-2016, Assessing ecosystem vulnerability to and recovery from extreme drought-related dieback events worldwide. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust
Mohammed Abdelaziz Mohammed: 2013-2015, Investigating the evolutionary divergence and reproductive isolation of populations of closely related Erysimum species. Funded by a University of Stirling Impact Research Fellowship.
Luis Matías Resina: 2011-2014, Investigating ecological characteristics of populations of woody species at the edge of their distributional range. Funded by an EU Marie Curie IEF fellowship.
Laura Rico: 2009 - 2013, Laura worked on a variety of projects assessing the molecular genetic impacts of environmental changes in the Mediterranean (based at the CREAF-CSIC Global Ecology Unit)
PhD students
Current students:
Thomas Ovenden 2018-2022, Predicting impacts of extreme weather events on UK forests. Funded by Forest Research, Scottish Forestry Trust and the University of Stirling.
Kirsten O’Sullivan 2018-2022, Uniting forest inventory and remote sensing data to assess forest composition and structure in tropical mountain regions. Funded by the NERC IAPETUS doctoral training partnership.
Erin Stoll 2017-2021, Quantifying and predicting soil responses to rapid tree migration in a tropical mountain region. Funded by the NERC IAPETUS doctoral training partnership.
Peter Morley 2015-2019, Predicting changes in high altitude forest distribution and function in a tropical mountain region. Funded by the NERC IAPETUS doctoral training partnership and the University of Stirling.
Anna Deasey: 2015-2019, Understanding the determinants of tree species distribution in tropical forests. Funded by the NERC IAPETUS doctoral training partnership.
Emma Bush: 2013-2018, Determining the impact of climate change on the sustainability of tourism investment and long-term strategic planning for environmental management in Gabon. Funded by the University of Stirling in partnership with Gabon National Parks Agency
Past students:
Patricia Gonzalez Díaz: 2014-2017, Understanding the development and distribution of genetic variation in native Scots pine forest. Funded by The University of Stirling and the Scottish Forestry Trust.
Isabel Jones: 2013-2017, Long-term ecological and carbon storage impacts on tropical forest islands created by a hydroelectric mega dam in the Amazon basin. Funded by the University of Stirling
Gillian Flint: 2010 - 2014, Understanding how geneflow over land and river systems shapes the genetic structure and demography of Alnus glutinosa populations. Funded by a University of Stirling Horizon Studentship.
Jennifer Sjölund: 2010 - 2014, Investigating recent and historic anthropogenic impacts on the genetic diversity and population structure of European beech forests. Funded by NERC as part of the FP7 BiodivERsA project European Beech Forests for the Future: Ecological, economical, and policy analysis of beech forest conservation under the Natura 2000 Network (BeFoFu).
Romuald Rouger: 2010 - 2014, Characterising genetic recovery during saltmarsh restoration. Funded by the Esmée Faibairn Foundation and the University of Stirling and conducted in collaboration with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
Sarah Greenwood: 2010 - 2014, Shifting species distributions in a warming world: The rising Abies kawakamii treelines of Taiwan. Funded by NERC and conducted in collaboration with the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) and China Medical University (CMU).
Liam Cavin: 2009 - 2014, Investigating the impacts of climate change and extreme climatic events on the growth of the European beech, Fagus sylvatica. Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Liam's project was associated with the FP7 BiodivERsA project European Beech Forests for the Future: Ecological, economical, and policy analysis of beech forest conservation under the Natura 2000 Network (BeFoFu).
Summer scholars
Catherine Mercer: 2016, Assessing population structure and demographic performance of Fagus sylvatica at its southern range edge. Funded by a Vacation Scholarship from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Fergus McDermid: 2015, Differential impacts of climate change on co-occurring gymnosperm and angiosperm trees. Funded by a Vacation Scholarship from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Pierre Mercatoris: 2012, Seasonal growth patterns of Taiwan pine in response to spatiotemporal climatic variation. Funded by a British Ecological Society Scholarship.
Sarah Young: 2011, Dendroecology of Taiwan pine across its altitudinal distribution in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan. Funded by a Biological and Environmental Sciences Summer Scholarship.
Visiting Researchers
Fábio de Almeida Vieira (2017-2018). Christian Zang (2014-2015). Miguel Ángel de Zavala (2014, 2015). Ángela Sánchez-Miranda Moreno (2014). Jorge Castro (2013, 2015). Francisco Lloret (2012).
Research assistants
Patricia Gonzalez Díaz (2013): Assistant in saltmarsh restoration genetics. Daniel Souto-Vilaros (2011) and Grant Brown (2010): Part time research assistants working on the BeFoFu project assisting with dendroecological work.