![Professor Xavier Lambin Professor Xavier Lambin](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/nhi502/webpicture.jpg)
Chair in Zoology
- About
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- Email Address
- x.lambin@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273259
- Office Address
Room 408 Zoology building Tillydrone Avenue Aberdeen AB24 2TZ Scotland UK
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE
2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology FRSB
2004 Professor of Ecology, University of Aberdeen
1994 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (1999), Reader in zoology (2002) University of Aberdeen
1993 NATO/Royal Society Research Fellow at Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory field Station
1992 PhD University of Louvain & Univ British Columbia, Personal Reseach Fellowship National Foundation for Scientific Research (Belgium)
1988-1991 Visiting Graduate Student, University of British Columbia1986 BSc Zoological Sciences, University of Louvain, First class
1988 MSc Biology, University of Louvain, First class
1987 Visiting Graduate Student, University of Oslo
External Memberships
Prof Lambin is currently:
A member of REF2021 panel B7 Earth Systems and Environmental Science
A member of Orkney's Native wildlife Project Technical Advisory committee
a member of Scotland Invasive Species Initiative steering board
A member of Scottish Natural Heritage Scientific Advisory Committe Expert panel
- Research
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Research Overview
My research seeks to understand the contributions of dispersal to the dynamics of populations, how the outcome of trophic interactions is modified by dispersal and to optimise the use of concepts from population ecology to solve pressing applied issues in wildlife management and conservation.
I achieve these aims by conducting large scale, often long term field studies with birds and mammals as well as by linking theoretical insights with empirical findings using state of the art statistical techniques. Ongoing projects include
- Metapopulation dynamics including of water voles and the role of dispersal and connectivity in fragmented systems on soil processes and vegation dynamics and disease dynamics
- Intraguild predation interactions and other interactions in bird of prey communities including those ivolving the northern goshawk, owls, other birds of prey and the pine marten
- The impact of the recovery of pine martens on grey and red squirrels, the squirrel pox virus and conservation and land use issues surrounding non-native grey squirrels
- The changing dynamics of cyclic field and common voles in the UK and Spain and their relationships with the predators parasites and food plants
- The management of non-native American mink and the volunteers and organsiations that are working to push back this invasion
- The management of non-native signal crayfish at the edge of their invasion front where they are predicted to profoundly damage freshwater fisheries and ecosystems
Collaborations
Spatial dynamics of pathogens and hosts
Dr Sandra Telfer (water vole metapopulations, disease dynamics); Prof Mike Begon (University of Liverpool)
Cyclic Vole demography
Prof Juan Luque Larena, Dr Francois Mougeot, Dr Beatriz Arroyo (Irruptive vole populations in Catilla y Leon CSIC IREC) ; Dr Eloy Revilla and Ruben Bernardo (meta-analyses of vole demography CSIC Donana, Spain); Prof sue Hartley (Univ York plant herbivore dynamics)
Statistical ecology
Dr Chris Sutherland (Univ Massashusets); Prof David Elston (BioSS); Dr Thomas Cornulier (statistical models of population dynamics, voles mink and more)
Raptor dynamics and life histories
Dr Alexandre Millon (Univ Aix Marseille), Dr Steve Petty (retired), Dr Phil Whitfield (Natural Research), Dr Ewan Weston (Natural Research)
Adaptive management of Invasive species
Chris Horrill, Ann Marie MacMaster (American mink participatory management, RAFTS); Prof Rene van der Wal (Citizen science and Minkapp); Prof Colin Bean (Crayfish SNH), Bob Laughton (Crayfish Nairn river trust),
Ecosystem dynamics
Prof Rolf Ims and Prof Nigel Yoccoz (University of Tromso Norway); Ricardo Pita (Univ Evora, Portugal)
Biodiversity and forest management
Kenny Kortland (pine martens, wood ants, squirrels, Forest Enterprise Scotland)
Funding and Grants
title Funder Amount Partners 2019 -22
CONTAIN: Optimising the long term management of invasive species affecting biodiversity and the rural economy using adaptive management NERC- NEWTON LATAM program £1,2M with burslem Phimister, Travis cornulier Caplat and Latin america Partners 2018 -22 Leaving the safety of the forest: the landscape-scale dynamics of a protected mobile species occupying areas with varying levels of protection NERC £89K A Stringer, Forestry England & Raptor Study groups 2017 -22 Assessing the economic and conservation impacts of the pine marten, a recovering predator, non-native grey squirrels, and forest land management NERC
£89K
A Stringer, Forestry England, PTES 2016-- ongoing Adaptive monitoring and management for endangered species conservation in boreal forest ecosystems with newly enriched guild of predators
Forestry and Land Scotland K Kortland - Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Course organiser for 4th year course Zo4527 in Wildlife conservation and management concepts and practice
Contributor to MSc in Ecology and Sustainability course Zo5304 Population Ecology
Contributor to MSc course EK5506 Ecology and Society
Contributor to 3rd year course Zo3303 in Animal Population Ecology
Contributor to 3rd year field course BI3001 Field Ecology Skills
Contributor to 2nd year course BI2020 Ecology
- Publications
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Control of an invasive species: The American mink in Great Britain
Biology and Conservation of Musteloids. Macdonald, D. W., Newman, C., Harrington, L. A. (eds.). Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 357-369, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0016
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The population dynamics of bite-sized predators: Prey dependence, territoriality, and mobility
Biology and Conservation of Musteloids. Macdonald, D. W., Newman, C., Harrington, L. A. (eds.). Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 129-148, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0004
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Irruptive mammal host populations shape tularemia epidemiology
PLoS Pathogens, vol. 13, no. 11, e1006622Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBoom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept
Ecology Letters, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1337-1350Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12822
Density-dependent increase in superpredation linked to food limitation in a recovering population of northern goshawks, Accipiter gentilis
Journal of Avian Biology, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 1205-1215Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDensity-Dependent Prevalence of Francisella tularensis in Fluctuating Vole Populations, Northwestern Spain
Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 1377-1379Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRelationship type affects the reliability of dispersal distance estimated using pedigree inferences in partially sampled populations: A case study involving invasive American mink in Scotland
Molecular Ecology, vol. 26, no. 15, pp. 4059-407Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14154
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10476/1/elationship_type_affects_the_reliability_of_dispersal_distance_estimated_using_pedigree_inferences_in_partially_sampled_populations_a_case_study_involving_invasive_American_mink_in_Scotland.pdf
The large-scale removal of mammalian invasive alien species in Northern Europe
Pest Management Science, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 273-279Contributions to Journals: Review articlesSize-mediated, density-dependent cannibalism in the signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) (Decapoda, Astacidea), an invasive crayfish in Britain
Crustaceana, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 417-435Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003653
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12104/1/CR_3653_Houghton_finished.pdf
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Rate of exposure of a sentinel species, invasive American mink (Neovison vison) in Scotland, to anticoagulant rodenticides
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 569-570, pp. 1013-1021Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe compensatory potential of increased immigration following intensive American mink population control is diluted by male-biased dispersal
Biological Invasions, vol. 18, pp. 3047-3061Contributions to Journals: Articles“Living on the edge”: the role of field margins for common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations in recently colonised Mediterranean farmland
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, vol. 231, pp. 206-217Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.06.041
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7426/1/Living_on_the_edge.pdf
Hierarchical spatial segregation of two Mediterranean vole species: the role of patch-network structure and matrix composition
Oecologia, vol. 182, no. 1, pp. 253-263Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStrong inference from transect sign surveys: combining spatial autocorrelation and misclassification occupancy models to quantify the detectability of a recovering carnivore
Wildlife Biology, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 209-216Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00146
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7509/1/wlb_2E00146.pdf
Food availability and predation risk, rather than intrinsic attributes are the main factors shaping the reproductive decisions of a long-lived predator
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 892-902Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGenetic markers validate using the natural phenotypic characteristics of shed feathers to identify individual northern goshawks Accipiter gentilis
Journal of Avian Biology, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 443-447Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00794
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7826/1/Hoy_et_al_2016_Journal_of_Avian_Biology.pdf
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Hunted predators: Charisma confounds
Science, vol. 349, no. 6254, pp. 1294Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.349.6254.1294-a
Tularemia Outbreaks and Common Vole (Microtus arvalis) Irruptive Population Dynamics in Northwestern Spain, 1997-2014
Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 568-570Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2015.1770
Density- and age-dependent reproduction partially compensates culling efforts of invasive non-native American mink
Biological Invasions, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 2645-2657Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0902-7
Range expansion of an invasive species through a heterogeneous landscape - the case of American mink in Scotland
Diversity and Distributions, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 888-900Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhat does conservation research do, when should it stop, and what do we do then? Questions answered with water voles
Wildlife Conservation on Farmland Volume 1: Managing for nature on lowland farms. Macdonald, D. W., Feber, R. E. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 269-290, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAge and sex-selective predation moderate the overall impact of predators
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 692-701Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA demographic, spatially explicit patch occupancy model of metapopulation dynamics and persistence
Ecology, vol. 95, no. 11, pp. 3149-3160Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0384.1
Controlling invasive species by empowering environmental stakeholders: ecotourism boat operators as potential guardians of wildlife against the invasive American mink
Oryx, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 605-612Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003060531300046X
Silicon, endophytes and secondary metabolites as grass defenses against mammalian herbivores
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 5, 478Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2014.00478
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4201/1/fpls_05_00478.pdf