The Glen Finglas Projects is a large-scale and long-term experiment investigating the effects of four different grazing regimes, no grazing, high-stock sheep grazing, low-stock sheep grazing, and low-stock sheep mixed with cattle grazing (+ the occasional deer), on Scottish upland ecosystems. I was involved in the arthropod collection and sorting/identification […]
Category: beetles
The Hungarian Harlequin Ladybird Project
“Whenever someone submits a biodiversity record, becomes a different person.” – Said Viktor Markó, with whom I worked with on the Harlequin Ladybirds.
Phenological changes in ground beetles
This was part of my PhD in Scotland. I used the long-term ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) dataset of the UK Environmental Change Network to investigate whether ground beetles start their activity earlier in the spring and cease it later in the autumn over a twenty-year period. A gradual change in […]