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Postdoctoral Researcher I am interested in the impacts of long-term, large-scale changes of the environment on species. Using GIS, remote sensing and modelling techniques I aim to gain an insight into spatio-temporal changes of species distributions and abundance as well as of anthropogenic changes of the environment. Risk mapping of ticks under climate and deer population change
Over the past decades tick-borne diseases have increased dramatically in the UK. The causes of this increase are currently unknown. Climate change and increased deer abundance have been suggested as possible drivers of this increase. Using statistical and biological modelling we aim to determine which of these two factors is driving recent increases in tick abundance and tick-borne diseases. This work is done collaboratively with Sarah Randolph from the Oxford Tick Research Group. Farming and biodiversity
Agriculture has and will expand rapidly to feed the growing human population. Mapping historic and future expansion of global agriculture I investigate the impacts of agriculture on threatened bird species. Further we are developing a model of tradeoffs between wildlife-friendly farming and land sparing farming. This work is in collaboration with Andrew Balmford and Rhys Green from the Conservation Biology Group, Cambridge. Recent publications Balmford, A., Green, R.E. and Scharlemann, J.P.W. 2005. Sparing land for nature: exploring the potential impact of changes in agricultural yield on the area needed for crop production. Global Change Biology 11: 1594-1605 Niven, J.E.and Scharlemann, J.P.W. 2005. Does metabolic rate at rest and during flight scale with body mass in insects? Biology Letters 1: 346-349 Scharlemann, J.P.W., Balmford, A. and Green, R.E. 2005. The level of threat to restricted-range bird species can be predicted from mapped data on land use and human population. Biological Conservation 123: 317-326 Green, R.E., Cornell, S., Scharlemann, J.P.W. and Balmford, A. 2005. The Future of Farming and Conservation - Response. Science 308: 1257-1258 Green, R.E., Cornell, S., Scharlemann, J.P.W. and Balmford, A. 2005. Farming and the fate of wild nature. Science 307: 550-555 Scharlemann, J.P.W., Green, R.E. and Balmford, A. 2004. Land use change in Endemic Bird Areas. Global Change Biology 10: 2046-2051 Scharlemann, J.P.W. 2003. Long-term declines in eggshell thickness of Dutch thrushes, Turdus spp. Ardea 91: 205-212 Green, R.E. and Scharlemann, J.P.W. 2003. Egg and skin collections as a resource for long-term ecological studies. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club Supplement 123A: 165-176 Scharlemann, J.P.W. 2001. Museum egg collections as stores of long-term phenological data. International Journal of Biometeorology 45: 208-211
Category: Environmental Engineering
Type: Scientist & Engineers
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