Professor in Biological Sciences
- About
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- Email Address
- m.a.pinard@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274110
- Office Address
Zoology Building University of Aberdeen Tillydrone Avenue Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
Professor, Biological Sciences (2015-present)
Director of Education, School of Biological Sciences (2013-present)
Senior Lecturer in Tropical Forestry (2007-2015)
Deputy Director of Teaching, School of Biological Sciences (2011-2013)
Postgraduate Taught Programme Coordinator, School of Biological Sciences (2009-2013)
Postgraduate Research Student Coordinator, School of Biological Sciences (2008-2009)
MSc Forestry Programme Coordinator (2001-2012)
Lecturer in Tropical Forestry (1996-2007)
Ph.D., Plant Ecology, Department of Botany, University of Florida, USA, 1995.
M.Sc., Plant Ecology, Department of Botany, University of Florida, USA, 1991.
Secondary Education Teaching Certificate, Eastern Oregon State College, USA, 1985.
B.Sc., Wildlife & Fisheries Biology, University of Vermont, USA, 1982.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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I am the Director of Teaching for the School of Biological Sciences.
- External Memberships
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My current external responsibilities include the following:
Trustee for the Scottish Forestry Trust
Subject Editor, Conservation Letters
Subject Editor, Biotropica
UA Representative for the Society of Biology
- Research
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Research Overview
My research is in the discipline of conservation science but also pedagogic.
My disciplinary research sits at the interface between ecology and forest use, either for management, conservation or livelihoods. I work mainly in lowland and montane regions in the tropics, in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Ghana, Brazil and Bolivia. I am best known for my work on regeneration issues in logged forests, carbon offsets in forestry, and reduced-impact logging. I also work on silvicultural problems related to the selection of trees for felling and retention in natural forests managed for timber.
My recent PhD students work on conservation conflicts and governance as it relates to livelihoods and natural resource use.
Recently, with colleagues in the Aberdeen Centre for Sustainability and partners in Bolivia and Brazil, we completed a project aimed to understanding how deforestation affects rural people’s well-being. The project involved understanding rural people’s perspective on poverty and exploring how forest loss and current environmental management practice and policies relate to human impoverishment.
My pedagogic research has focused on capacity building of doctoral students and conservation practitioners, the links between learning, interdisciplinarity and natural resource management or conservation. I also have an interest in iterative feedback, inclusive assessments, the delivery and assessment of practical skills in the biological sciences and field-based learning.
Funding and Grants
Shared, Plural and Cultural Values of Ecosystems (with J Kenter (UA) and M Reed (Birmingham City University; DEFRA National Ecosystem Assessment Grant).
Forest dependent poor at the agricultural frontier: the complexity of poverty and the promise of sustainable forest ecosystems in Amazonia (with A Ioris and S Shubin (UA), IBIF, Bolivia, Museo Goeldi, Belem and EMBRAPA, Brazil; Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Partnership and Project Develoment Grant).
Buffer zone restoration and development in Knuckles Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (with U Peradeniya, Darwin Initiative).
Biodiversity Monitoring in Forest Ecosystems in Bale Mountains Park, Ethiopia (with BMNP, Darwin Initiative).
Silvicultural intervention in tropical moist forest in Ghana: an assessment of forest responses and stakeholder priorities. Tropenbos Ghana Project. (with E Foli, Forest Research Institute Ghana).
Modelling composition and performance of timber tree regeneration after selective logging. Tropenbos Ghana Project. (with M D Swaine, U Aberden; K Adam, Forest Research Institute Ghana, and F Bongers, Wageningen Agricultural University).
Silviculture and economics of improved natural forest management in Ghana. International Tropical Timber Organization. (with Ghana Forestry Department, Forest Research Institute Ghana, Ghana Timber Millers Organisation).
Rural livelihoods and carbon managementj. Department for International Development, UK. (with S Bass, IIED; P Moura-Costa, Ecosecurities; and R Tipper, U Edinburgh).
Disturbance and regeneration in tropical rain forest: the importance of biotic interactions. British Ecological Society, Overseas Research Programme. (with D Burslem, U Aberdeen; S Compton, U Leeds; J Ghazoul, Imperial College; S Hartley, U Sussex; M Press and J Scholes, U Sheffield).
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
I am the Director of Education for the School of Biological Sciences.
Currently I coordinate Society and Environment (BI3507) and Statistical Analysis of Biological Data (BI3010). I teach into Ecology, Society and Conservation (EK5510), Ecology (BI2020), Plants, People and the Environment (BI25P4), Population Ecology (EK3303) and Biodiversity in South African Ecosystems (ZO39F1).
I have supervised 23 PhD students, >50 MSc students and >50 BSc Honours students. About half of the project students that I have supervised have worked overseas. For a list of some of the students and projects that I have supervised, look under the Further Info tab.
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
I am a Personal Tutor.
- Publications
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Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human modified-tropical forests
Science, vol. 369, no. 6505, pp. 838-841Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay4490
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Estimating Carbon Avoided from the Implementation of Reduced-Impact Logging in Sabah, Malaysia
International Forestry Review, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 58-78Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1505/146554818822824192
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Strategies for restoring tree seedling recruitment in high conservation value tropical montane forests underplanted with cardamom
Applied Vegetation Science, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 121-133Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12129
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The Tropical managed forests Observatory: A research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests
Applied Vegetation Science, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 171-174Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12125
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A More Realistic Portrayal of Tropical Forestry: Response to Kormos and Zimmerman
Conservation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 145-146Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12044
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Can harvesting for timber in tropical forest enhance timber tree regeneration?
Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 314, pp. 26-37Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.11.025
Closing the feedback loop? Iterative feedback between tutor and student in coursework assessments
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 899-915Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2013.875985
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Governance change and institutional adaptation: a case study from Harenna Forest, Ethiopia
Environmental Management, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 912-925Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-013-0017-9
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Impact of forest structure simplification on bird species richness in the Harena forest of the Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP), South Eastern Ethiopia
Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 321-324Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCombining socio-economic and ecological modelling to inform natural resource management strategies
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Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable
Conservation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 296-303Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00242.x
Impacts of cardamom cultivation on montane forest ecosystems in Sri Lanka
Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 274, pp. 151-160Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.02.021
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High levels of participation in conservation projects enhance learning
Conservation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 116-126Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00152.x
Demography and dynamics of mountain nyala Tragelaphus buxtoni in the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
Current Zoology, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 660-669Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The Influence of Philosophical Perspectives in Integrative Research: a Conservation Case Study in the Cairngorms National Park
Ecology and Society, vol. 13, no. 2, 52Contributions to Journals: ArticlesApplying ecological knowledge to decisions about seed tree retention in selective logging in tropical forests
Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 256, no. 7, pp. 1434-1442Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.03.001
Improved tropical forest management for carbon retention
PLoS Biology, vol. 6, no. 7, e166Contributions to Journals: EditorialsWood decay associated with logging wounds in Parashorea malaanonan
Australasian Plant Pathology, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 565-572Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/AP07060
Allometry and shade tolerance in pole-sized trees of two contrasting dipterocarp species in Sabah, Malaysia
Biotropica, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 437-440Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00145.x
Colonization of Sitka spruce stumps by decay-causing hymenomycetes in paired inoculations.
Mycological Research, vol. 110, pp. 854-868Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mycres.2006.02.007
Nine decades of regulating timber harvest from forest reserves and the status of residual forests in Ghana
International Forestry Review, vol. 8, pp. 280-296Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpecial issue: contributions of non-timber forest products to socio-economic development (editorial)
International Tree Crops Journal, vol. 10, pp. 267Contributions to Journals: EditorialsBiotic Interactions in the Tropics: Their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 580 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksChanges in plant communities associated with timber management in natural forests in the moist tropics
Biotic Interactions in the Tropics: Their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity. Burslem, D., Pinard, M., Hartley, S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 530-551Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersForest science and the Bolfor experience: research in support of natural forest management in Bolivia
Zarin, D. (ed.), Working Forests. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.. Cambridge University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters