The Azorean archipelago is a hotspot for bryophyte diversity, hosting over 400 species . Although I am not a botanist, the variety of mosses and liverworts covering the ground and hanging from trees in the native Azorean humid laurisilva forests amazes me. Pico is the second largest island of the […]
Category: research
Multi-level Voronoi maps in R
Voronoi diagram is a special type of tessellation that partitions a plane into regions close to each of a given set of points. The diagram is constructed by drawing a line segment between each pair of points, and then perpendicular bisecting each line segment. The intersection points of these perpendicular […]
Effects of grazing on the invertebrate assemblages in Scottish uplands
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 […]
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 […]