![Professor Xavier Lambin Professor Xavier Lambin](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/nhi502/webpicture.jpg)
Chair in Zoology
- About
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- Email Address
- x.lambin@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273259
- Office Address
Room 408 Zoology building Tillydrone Avenue Aberdeen AB24 2TZ Scotland UK
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE
2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology FRSB
2004 Professor of Ecology, University of Aberdeen
1994 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (1999), Reader in zoology (2002) University of Aberdeen
1993 NATO/Royal Society Research Fellow at Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory field Station
1992 PhD University of Louvain & Univ British Columbia, Personal Reseach Fellowship National Foundation for Scientific Research (Belgium)
1988-1991 Visiting Graduate Student, University of British Columbia1986 BSc Zoological Sciences, University of Louvain, First class
1988 MSc Biology, University of Louvain, First class
1987 Visiting Graduate Student, University of Oslo
External Memberships
Prof Lambin is currently:
A member of REF2021 panel B7 Earth Systems and Environmental Science
A member of Orkney's Native wildlife Project Technical Advisory committee
a member of Scotland Invasive Species Initiative steering board
A member of Scottish Natural Heritage Scientific Advisory Committe Expert panel
- Research
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Research Overview
My research seeks to understand the contributions of dispersal to the dynamics of populations, how the outcome of trophic interactions is modified by dispersal and to optimise the use of concepts from population ecology to solve pressing applied issues in wildlife management and conservation.
I achieve these aims by conducting large scale, often long term field studies with birds and mammals as well as by linking theoretical insights with empirical findings using state of the art statistical techniques. Ongoing projects include
- Metapopulation dynamics including of water voles and the role of dispersal and connectivity in fragmented systems on soil processes and vegation dynamics and disease dynamics
- Intraguild predation interactions and other interactions in bird of prey communities including those ivolving the northern goshawk, owls, other birds of prey and the pine marten
- The impact of the recovery of pine martens on grey and red squirrels, the squirrel pox virus and conservation and land use issues surrounding non-native grey squirrels
- The changing dynamics of cyclic field and common voles in the UK and Spain and their relationships with the predators parasites and food plants
- The management of non-native American mink and the volunteers and organsiations that are working to push back this invasion
- The management of non-native signal crayfish at the edge of their invasion front where they are predicted to profoundly damage freshwater fisheries and ecosystems
Collaborations
Spatial dynamics of pathogens and hosts
Dr Sandra Telfer (water vole metapopulations, disease dynamics); Prof Mike Begon (University of Liverpool)
Cyclic Vole demography
Prof Juan Luque Larena, Dr Francois Mougeot, Dr Beatriz Arroyo (Irruptive vole populations in Catilla y Leon CSIC IREC) ; Dr Eloy Revilla and Ruben Bernardo (meta-analyses of vole demography CSIC Donana, Spain); Prof sue Hartley (Univ York plant herbivore dynamics)
Statistical ecology
Dr Chris Sutherland (Univ Massashusets); Prof David Elston (BioSS); Dr Thomas Cornulier (statistical models of population dynamics, voles mink and more)
Raptor dynamics and life histories
Dr Alexandre Millon (Univ Aix Marseille), Dr Steve Petty (retired), Dr Phil Whitfield (Natural Research), Dr Ewan Weston (Natural Research)
Adaptive management of Invasive species
Chris Horrill, Ann Marie MacMaster (American mink participatory management, RAFTS); Prof Rene van der Wal (Citizen science and Minkapp); Prof Colin Bean (Crayfish SNH), Bob Laughton (Crayfish Nairn river trust),
Ecosystem dynamics
Prof Rolf Ims and Prof Nigel Yoccoz (University of Tromso Norway); Ricardo Pita (Univ Evora, Portugal)
Biodiversity and forest management
Kenny Kortland (pine martens, wood ants, squirrels, Forest Enterprise Scotland)
Funding and Grants
title Funder Amount Partners 2019 -22
CONTAIN: Optimising the long term management of invasive species affecting biodiversity and the rural economy using adaptive management NERC- NEWTON LATAM program £1,2M with burslem Phimister, Travis cornulier Caplat and Latin america Partners 2018 -22 Leaving the safety of the forest: the landscape-scale dynamics of a protected mobile species occupying areas with varying levels of protection NERC £89K A Stringer, Forestry England & Raptor Study groups 2017 -22 Assessing the economic and conservation impacts of the pine marten, a recovering predator, non-native grey squirrels, and forest land management NERC
£89K
A Stringer, Forestry England, PTES 2016-- ongoing Adaptive monitoring and management for endangered species conservation in boreal forest ecosystems with newly enriched guild of predators
Forestry and Land Scotland K Kortland - Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Course organiser for 4th year course Zo4527 in Wildlife conservation and management concepts and practice
Contributor to MSc in Ecology and Sustainability course Zo5304 Population Ecology
Contributor to MSc course EK5506 Ecology and Society
Contributor to 3rd year course Zo3303 in Animal Population Ecology
Contributor to 3rd year field course BI3001 Field Ecology Skills
Contributor to 2nd year course BI2020 Ecology
- Publications
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What does conservation research do, when should it stop, and what do we do then? Questions answered with water voles
Wildlife Conservation on Farmland Volume 1: Managing for nature on lowland farms. Macdonald, D. W., Feber, R. E. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 269-290, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAge and sex-selective predation moderate the overall impact of predators
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 692-701Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA demographic, spatially explicit patch occupancy model of metapopulation dynamics and persistence
Ecology, vol. 95, no. 11, pp. 3149-3160Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0384.1
Controlling invasive species by empowering environmental stakeholders: ecotourism boat operators as potential guardians of wildlife against the invasive American mink
Oryx, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 605-612Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003060531300046X
Silicon, endophytes and secondary metabolites as grass defenses against mammalian herbivores
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 5, 478Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2014.00478
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4201/1/fpls_05_00478.pdf
Mycobacterium microti Tuberculosis in Its Maintenance Host, the Field Vole (Microtus agrestis): Characterization of the Disease and Possible Routes of Transmission
Veterinary pathology, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 903-914Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0300985813513040
Multi-season occupancy analysis reveals large scale competitive exclusion of the critically endangered European mink by the invasive non-native American mink in Spain
Biological Conservation, vol. 176, pp. 21-29Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.05.002
Host-parasite biology in the real world: the field voles of Kielder
Parasitology, vol. 141, no. 8, pp. 997-1017Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182014000171
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3723/1/download.pdf
Dampening prey cycle overrides the impact of climate change on predator population dynamics: a long-term demographic study on tawny owls
Global Change Biology, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1770-1781Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12546
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3388/1/Dampening_Prey_Cycle_overrides.pdf
To be or not to be associated: power study of four statistical modeling approaches to identify parasite associations in cross-sectional studies
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, vol. 4, 62Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2014.00062
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4206/1/fcimb_04_00062.pdf