Dr Althea Davies

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 4946

Email

ald7@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

My main teaching responsibilities:

• Second year environmental geography (GG2014) and biodiversity and sustainable development (SD2006)
• Third year environmental/physical geography research methods and residential fieldtrip (GG3211, GG3213)
• Dissertation supervision
• MSc Sustainable Development contributor (GD5802)
• School study abroad officer

Research areas

My research focuses on long-term human-environment interactions and their implications for biodiversity and conservation, and how we deal with biocultural legacies in contemporary environmental management. Current and recent projects include: methods for tracking the role of large herbivores as ecosystem drivers, valuing intact tropical peatlands, and textiles as biocultural heritage.

Better understanding between palaeoecology and ecology is central to my interests. To support this I co-chair the British Ecological Society Palaeoecology Group, and set up the informal Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Sciences Scotland (PALASS) Network to connect researchers working in and on Scottish environments. 

PhD supervision

• Benjamin Ong
• Holly Bynoe Young
• Fritha West
• Camille Choquet
• Kayleigh Letherbarrow
• Holly Bynoe Young

Selected publications

• Open access

  What drives biodiversity patterns? Using long-term multidisciplinary data to discern centennial-scale change

  Woodbridge, J., Fyfe, R., Smith, D., Pelling, R., de Vareilles, A., Batchelor, C. R., Bevan, A. & Davies, A., 19 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Ecology. Early View

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Eco-epidemiological uncertainties of emerging plant diseases: the challenge of predicting Xylella fastidiosa dynamics in novel environments

  Occhibove, F., Chapman, D. S., Mastin, A. J., Parnell, S. S. R., Agstner, B., Mato-Amboage, R., Jones, G., Dunn, M., Pollard, C. R. J., Robinson, J. S., Marzano, M., Davies, A. L., White, R. M., Fearne, A. & White, S. M., 29 Oct 2020, In: Phytopathology. 110, 11, p. 1740-1750 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  A systematic review of methods for studying the impacts of outdoor recreation on terrestrial wildlife

  Marion, S., Davies, A., Demsar, U., Irvine, J., Stephens, P. & Long, J., Jun 2020, In: Global Ecology and Conservation. 22, e00917.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Dung fungi as an indicator of large herbivore dynamics in peatlands

  Davies, A. L., Dec 2019, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 271, 104108.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The application of resilience concepts in palaeoecology

  Davies, A. L., Streeter, R. T., Lawson, I. T., Roucoux, K. H. & Hiles, W., 1 Sept 2018, In: The Holocene. 28, 9, p. 1523-1534 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Late Holocene regime shifts in moorland ecosystems: high-resolution data from the Pennines, UK

  Davies, A., May 2016, In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 25, 3, p. 207-219 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  What are shared and social values of ecosystems?

  Kenter, J. O., O'Brien, L., Hockley, N., Ravenscroft, N., Fazey, I., Irvine, K. N., Reed, M. S., Christie, M., Brady, E., Bryce, R., Church, A., Cooper, N., Davies, A., Evely, A., Everard, M., Fish, R., Fisher, J. A., Jobstvogt, N., Molloy, C., Orchard-Webb, J., & 4 others Ranger, S., Ryan, M., Watson, V. & Williams, S., Mar 2015, In: Ecological Economics. 111, p. 86-99 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

  Seddon, A. W. R., Mackay, A. W., Baker, A. G., Birks, H. J. B., Breman, E., Buck, C. E., Ellis, E. C., Froyd, C. A., Gill, J. L., Gillson, L., Johnson, E. A., Jones, V. J., Juggins, S., Macias-Fauria, M., Mills, K., Morris, J. L., Nogues-Bravo, D., Punyasena, S. W., Roland, T. P., Tanentzap, A. J., & 49 others Willis, K. J., Aberhan, M., van Asperen, E. N., Austin, W. E. N., Battarbee, R. W., Bhagwat, S., Belanger, C. L., Bennett, K. D., Birks, H. H., Ramsey, C. B., Brooks, S. J., de Bruyn, M., Butler, P. G., Chambers, F. M., Clarke, S. J., Davies, A. L., Dearing, J. A., Ezard, T. H. G., Feurdean, A., Flower, R. J., Gell, P., Hausmann, S., Hogan, E. J., Hopkins, M. J., Jeffers, E. S., Korhola, A. A., Marchant, R., Kiefer, T., Lamentowicz, M., Larocque-Tobler, I., Lopez-Merino, L., Liow, L. H., McGowan, S., Miller, J. H., Montoya, E., Morton, O., Nogue, S., Onoufriou, C., Boush, L. P., Rodriguez-Sanchez, F., Rose, N. L., Sayer, C. D., Shaw, H. E., Payne, R., Simpson, G., Sohar, K., Whitehouse, N. J., Williams, J. W. & Witkowski, A., Jan 2014, In: Journal of Ecology. 102, 1, p. 256-267 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Improving the application of long-term ecology in conservation and land management

  Davies, A. L., Colombo, S. & Hanley, N. D., Feb 2014, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 51, 1, p. 63-70 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Long-term approaches to native woodland restoration: Palaeoecological and stakeholder perspectives on Atlantic forests of Northern Europe

  Davies, A. L., 1 Feb 2011, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 261, 3, p. 751-763 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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