Ecology and Conservation Science
Lynn Dicks
Research Associate and NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Email: lvd22@cam.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)1223 761362
My work is focused on making wildlife conservation more effective. I do this by making relevant scientific knowledge accessible to conservationists, and by engaging decision-makers in guiding research towards questions of importance in policy and practice.
I coordinated the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Programme project Linking Evidence and Policy for Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes. We worked with policymakers, conservationists, farmers and advisers to find out what is important to them in delivering conservation on farmland, and synthesized evidence for 118 possible interventions.
I am developing the Conservation Evidence website, an information resource that supports decisions about how to maintain and restore global biodiversity. In partnership with other organisations, we publish synopses of evidence in areas of particular interest. Synopses of evidence on bee conservation and bird conservation are now available. We are compiling synopses on amphibian conservation and conservation on farmland in northern Europe.
With funding from NERC, I have created a Pollinator Conservation Delivery Group to link pollinator conservation efforts in the private and public sectors with research from the Insect Pollinators Initiative. A briefing note about this work is available here: Pollinator conservation knowledge exchange project. The first output - a list of priority knowledge needs - is available here.
Selected publications
- Dicks, L.V., Abrahams A., Atkinson J., Biesmeijer J., Bourn N., Brown C., Brown M.J.F., Carvell C., Connolly C., Cresswell J., Croft P., Darvill B., de Zylva P., Effingham P., Fountain M., Goggin A., Harding D., Harding T., Hartfield C., Heard M.S., Heathcote R., Heaver D., Holland J., Howe M., Hughes B., Huxley T., Kunin W.E., Little J., Mason C., Memmott J., Osborne J., Pankhurst T., Paxton R.J., Pocock M., Potts S.G., Power E., Raine N.E., Ranelagh E., Roberts S., Saunders R., Smith K., Smith R.M., Sutton P., Tilley L., Tinsley A., Tonhasca A., Vanbergen A.J, Webster S., Wilson A., & Sutherland W.J. (in press) Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence-based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross-sectoral exercise. Insect Conservation and Diversity.
- Sutherland W.J., Aveling R., Bennun L., Chapman E., Clout M., Cote I.M., Depledge M.H., Dicks L.V., Dobson A.P., Fellman L., Fleishman E., Gibbons D.W., Keim B., Lickorish F., Lindenmayer D.B., Monk K.A., Norris K., Peck L.S., Prior S.V., Scharlemann J.P.W., Spalding M. & Watkinson A.R. (2012) A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2012. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 27, 12-18.
- Sutherland W.J., Goulson D., Potts S.G. & Dicks L.V. (2011) Quantifying the impact and relevance of scientific research. PLoS ONE, 6(11): e27537. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0027537.
- Sutherland W.J., Bardsley S., Bennun L., Clout M., Cote I.M., Depledge M.H., Dicks L.V., Dobson A.P., Fellman L., Fleishman E., Gibbons D.W., Impey A.J., Lawton J.H., Lickorish F., Lindenmayer D.B., Lovejoy T.E., Mac Nally R., Madgwick J., Peck L.S., Pretty J., Prior S.V., Redford K.H., Scharlemann J.P.W., Spalding M. & Watkinson A.R. (2011) Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26, 10-16.
- Dicks L.V., Showler D.A. & Sutherland W.J. (2010) Bee Conservation: Evidence for the effects of intervention. Synopses of Conservation Evidence 1. Pelagic Publishing.
- Pywell R.F., Warman E.A., Carvell C., Sparks T.H., Dicks L.V., Bennett D., Wright A., Critchley C.N.R. & Sherwood A. (2005) Providing foraging resources for bumblebees in intensively farmed landscapes. Biological Conservation, 121, 479-494.
- Dicks L.V., Corbet S.A. & Pywell R.F. (2002) Compartmentalization in plant-insect flower visitor webs. Journal of Animal Ecology, 71, 32-43.
- Comba L., Corbet S.A., Hunt L. & Warren B. (1999) Flowers, nectar and insect visits: Evaluating British plant species for pollinator-friendly gardens. Annals of Botany, 83, 369-383.
- Thompson H.M. & Hunt L.V. (1999) Extrapolating from honeybees to bumblebees in pesticide risk assessment. Ecotoxicology, 8, 147-166.
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