![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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Demographic and genetic structure of fossorial water voles (Arvicola terrestris) on Scottish islands
Journal of Zoology, vol. 259, pp. 23-29Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836902003321
Territorial behaviour and population dynamics in red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus. II. Population models
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 1083-1096Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00780.x
The decline of Common Kestrels Falco tinnunculus in a forested area of northern England: the role of predation by Northern Goshawks Accipiter gentilis
Ibis, vol. 145, no. 3, pp. 472-483Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003.00191.x
Generation of periodic waves by landscape features in cyclic predator-prey systems
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 269, no. 1489, pp. 327-334Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1890
Mycobacterium microti Infection (Vole Tuberculosis) in Wild Rodent Populations
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 3281-3285Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.40.9.3281-3285.2002
Population Cycles: inferences from experimental, Modeling, and time seris approaches
In: Population Cycles: The Case for trophic interactions (ed. Berryman,A. A.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 155-176, 21 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe impact of weasel predation on cyclic field-vole survival: the specialist predator hypothesis contradicted
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 946-956Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00657.x
The kin facilitation hypothesis for red grouse population cycles: territorial dynamics of the family cluster
Ecological Modelling, vol. 147, no. 3, pp. 291-307Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00420-3
Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond to the immediate environment
Nature, vol. 411, no. 6841, pp. 1043-1045Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/35082553
Adaptive precocial reproduction in voles: reproductive costs and multivoltine life-history strategies in seasonal environment
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 191-200Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00494.x
Analysis of aggregation, a worked example: numbers of ticks on red grouse chicks
Parasitology, vol. 122, pp. 563-569Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182001007740
Dispersal, intraspecific competition, kin competition, and kin facilitation: A review of the empirical evidence
Dispersal. Clobert, J., Danchin, E., Dhondt, A. A., Nichols, J. D. (eds.). Oxford University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMechanisms for delayed density-dependency reproductive traits in field voles, Microtus agrestis: the importance of inherited environmental effects
Oikos, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 185-197Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950201.x
Metapopulation processes and persistence in remnant water vole populations
Oikos, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 31-42Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950104.x
Modelling space-phase relationships in cyclic populations
Journal of Applied Biometry in Environmental ScienceContributions to Journals: ArticlesScale invariant spatio-temporal patterns of field vole density
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 101-111Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00479.x
Water vole in the Scottish uplands: distribution patterns of disturbed and pristine populations ahead and behind the American mink invasion front
Animal Conservation, vol. 4, pp. 187-194Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1367943001001226
Cyclic dynamics in field vole populations and generalist predation
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 69, pp. 106-118Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMatrilineal genetic structure and female-mediated gene flow in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus): An analysis using mitochondrial DNA
Evolution, vol. 54, pp. 279-289Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpatial arrangement of kin affects recruitment success in young male red grouse
Oikos, vol. 90, pp. 261-270Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpatial synchrony in field vole Microtus agrestis abundance in a coniferous forest in northern England: The role of vole-eating raptors
Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 37, pp. 136-147Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe kin-facilitation hypothesis for red grouse population cycles: territory sharing between relatives
Ecological Modelling, vol. 127, pp. 53-63Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUse of coupled oscillator models to understand synchrony and travelling waves in populations of the field vole Microtus agrestis in northern England
Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 37, pp. 148-158Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFox predation on cyclic field vole populations in Britain
Ecography, vol. 22, pp. 575-581Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMetapopulation genetic structure in the water vole, Arvicola terrestris, in NE Scotland
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 68, pp. 159-171Contributions to Journals: Articles