Amy Eycott, BSc, PhD

 

Landscape Ecology GIS Analyst, Ecology Division

Email: amy.eycott@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1420 22255
Tel direct: +44 (0)1420 526271
Fax: +44 (0)1420 23563

Address:
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU10 4LH
UK

Amy Eycott joined Forest Research in November 2005. Previously, she studied and worked at the University of East Anglia, where she completed a PhD entitled ‘Plant Population and Community Dynamics in a Forested Landscape’, and before that studied Environmental Biology at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.

Current role

Landscape Ecology GIS Analyst, Ecology Division

Amy provides scientific support for research to develop tools to evaluate biodiversity in fragmented landscapes and their application at various scales, and supports species-based studies.

Current programmes

Landscape ecology

Affiliations and achievements

• Member of the International Association of Landscape Ecologists
• Member of the British Ecological Society
• Member of the British Bryological Society

Research areas

Woodland habitat networks.
Species-landscape interactions, especially deer and dormice.

Main recent publications

Eycott, A.E., Watts, K., Moseley, D.G. & Ray, D. (in press). Evaluating Biodiversity in Fragmented Landscapes: The Use of Focal Species. Forestry Commission Information Note, Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.

Watts, K., Quine, C., Ray, D., Eycott, A.E., Moseley, D.G. & Humphrey, J.W. (in press). Conserving biodiversity in fragmented landscapes: Recent approaches in UK forest planning and management, in Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes - Multiple Use and Sustainable Management. Lafortezza, R., Chen, J., Sanesi, G. and Crow, T. R. (Eds.), Springer, The Netherlands.

Eycott, A.E., Watkinson, A.R., Hemami, M.-R. & Dolman, P.M. (2007). The dispersal of vascular plants in a forest mosaic by a guild of mammalian herbivores. Oecologia 154, 107-118.

Eycott, A.E. & Watts, K. (2007). Climate change, habitat fragmentation and the resilience of ecological networks, in 25 Years of Landscape Ecology: Scientific Principles in Practice - Proceedings of the 7th IALE World Congress, held at Wageningen, The Netherlands, 8th-12th July 2007. Bunce, R. G. H., Jongman, R. H. G., Hojas, L. and Weel, S. (Eds.), IALE.

Watts, K., Eycott, A.E., Broadmeadow, M., Ray, D., Sing, L. & Latham, J. (2007a). Climate change, habitat fragmentation and the resilience of ecological networks, in 25 Years of Landscape Ecology: Scientific Principles in Practice - Proceedings of the 7th IALE World Congress, held at Wageningen, The Netherlands, 8th-12th July 2007. Bunce, R. G. H., Jongman, R. H. G., Hojas, L. and Weel, S. (Eds.), IALE.

Eycott, A.E., Watts, K. & Griffiths, M. (2007). Further Development of a Woodland Habitt Network Strategy for Wales. Report to Forestry Commission Wales & Countryside Council for Wales.

Eycott, A.E., Watkinson, A.R. and Dolman, P.M. (2006). Ecological patterns of plant diversity in a plantation forest managed by clearfelling. Journal of Applied Ecology 43:1161-1171.

Eycott, A.E., Watkinson, A.R. and Dolman, P.M. (2006). The soil seedbank of a lowland conifer forest: the impacts of clear-fell management and implications for heathland restoration. Forest Ecology and Management 237:280-289.

Eycott, A., Watkinson, A. R. & Dolman, P.M. (2004). Deer as vectors of plant dispersal in woodland networks. In: Smithers (Ed.) Landscpe Ecology of Trees and Forests, IALE(UK), Grantham.