People: Paul Brett, Barry Coonan (Met Éireann), Klara Finkele (Met Éireann), Padraig Flattery (Met Éireann), Deborah Hemming (UK Met Office), Neil Kaye (UK Met Office), Tamara Hochstrasser (UCD), Conor McGee (DAFM), Jon Yearsley (UCD)
The primary goal of this project is to provide a practical visual tool that communicates scientific evidence to stakeholders involved in Ireland's plant biosecurity policy and pest/pathogen-risk management.
People: Two PhD students, One postdoc, Marialaura Destefanis (DAFM), Amanda Brechon (DAFM), Annmarie Hamilton (Coillte), Archie Murchie (AFBI), Niall Farrelly (Teagasc) Conor McGee (DAFM), Richard O'Hanlon (DAFM), Jon Yearsley (UCD)
This research is pillar 3 of the project entitled "Adaptation, mitigation and protection strategies to increase resilience of Irish forests to address the impacts of climate change (ADAPTForRes)". This project will develop optimised surveillance tools for the early detection of fungal forest pests in Ireland.
People: Manon Longpiere, Diego Garlaschelli Matthias Rillig Evelyn Doyle Elke Eichelmann Yvonne Buckley Saoirse Tracy Fiona Doohan, Jon Yearsley, Tancredi Caruso
This project will reveal how plant-microbial biodiversity and productivity in grassland respond to extreme drought and flood.
People: Sarah MacQueen, Arrian Karbassioon, Alison O'Reilly , Jon Yearsley Dara Stanley (lead PI),
This project the response of pollination services to pesticides and climate change. The modelling component of the project looks at the thermodynamics of pollinators as a mechanistic model of pollinator activity.
People: Morane Clavel-Henry, Rebecca Giesler, Tasman Crowe, Jon Yearsley
This project studies the spread of two target marine invasive species along Ireland's coastline. The project is a combination of larval biophysical modelling and the marine ecology of invasive species.
People: Carl Fisk, Rainer Melzer, Hannah White, Charilaos Yiotis, Jon Yearsley
This project studies the phenology of perenial rye grass pastures in Ireland (primarily the length of the growing season) and the variation in phenology between different varieties of rye grass. Increasing the growing season of perennial rye grass pasture has the potential to increase the ability of Irish grasslands to sequester carbon.
People: Maja Ilić, Amy Arnott, Willson Gaul, Mark Emmerson, Paul Caplat, Tim Benton, Jon Yearsley
This project studies the resilience of grassland production systems and their capacity to resist, recover and adapt to future environmental change, whilst sustainably producing food for a growing global population.
What is the dispersal capacity of marine larvae in the deep-sea? How are deep-sea ecosystems colonised and from where? We are using oceanographic and genetic data to address such questions.
We are developing population genetic theory that describes collective dispersal, where multiple individuals show similar dispersal pathways. This type of dispersal is seen for marine invertebrate larvae, wind dispersed organisms, and is also applicable to dispersal at a species' range margin.
This project used a Lagrangian particle tracking model to assess the dispersal potential of ash dieback disease across Ireland.
We study the propagation of smouldering fire through organic soils (principally peat) using a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and models of smouldering fire.
The greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) was first discovered in Ireland in 2007. Ever since it has been gradually expanding its distribution. The study uses the greater white-toothed shrew as a model species to study evolutionary processes at an expaning range margin. We are also collaborating with colleagues in Queen's University Belfast (Ian Montgomery, Neil Reid, David Tosh) to quantify the rate at which this shrew is spreading across Ireland and its ecological impact.