More and more people outside and inside academic specialisms are becoming aware of the pressing need to halt dramatic losses in biodiversity worldwide.
The EU H2020 project, FRAMEwork is mounting an ambitious response to these critical problems.
The project will create a Biodiversity Sensitive Farming System that will encourage and enable farmers to conserve biodiversity, promote a rebalancing of agriculture in a way
that capitalises on the value of native biodiversity, and
improve the capacity of farming to deliver food and
nutritional security in the face of climate change, disease pandemics and other pressures on the system.
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Dr Niamh McHugh
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Postdoctoral researcher, who conducted her PhD on evaluating the value of various agri-environment schemes for farmland birds.
Dr McHugh's research focused on yellowhammer and tree sparrow. Since 2015 she has managed her own projects on the use of agri-environment habitats by barn swallow and bats (Agribats) that both included measurements of agri-environment scheme quality (food abundance and habitat structure). She is experienced in a range of bird survey techniques and also holds a bird ringing licence with a mist net endorsement. NM is an experienced statistician with expertise in mixed effects modelling, information theory, stepwise regression, principal component analysis, bootstrapping and kernel analysis.