Research interests

Plant community ecology, biodiversity, bioinformatics.

Projekte

Functional Significance of Forest Biodiversity in Europe

The aim of FunDivEUROPE is to quantify the effects of forest biodiversity on ecosystem function and services in major European forest type.

Work experience

Current - Postdoctoral position on FunDivEUROPE.

My role is to develop and manage the database solutions for the Inventory and Exploratory Platforms.

October 1999 to February 2011 - Software developer and programmer

I worked as a software developer and programmer, in London, building database-driven websites for commercial companies and charities.

July 1993 to December 1996 - Ecologist for King's Environmental Services, King's College London.

We undertook Environmental Impact Assessments for major highway schemes, adult and juvenile fish stock surveys and river corridor habitat surveys.

Education

January 1996 to March 1999	PhD. Imperial College, London University. Thesis title: Competition and coexistence in experimental annual plant communities
October 1990 to July 1993	BSc. (Hons) Ecology. King's College, London University.

Publikationen

Coomes, D.A., Rees, M., Turnbull, L., & Ratcliffe, S. (2002), On the mechanisms of coexistence among annual-plant species, using neighbourhood techniques and simulation models. Plant Ecology, 163, 23-3.

Bark. A., Barsoum, N., Moore, P., Radcliffe, S., Turner, B. (1994). Software Review : Tablefit version 0.0 for Identification of Vegetation Types. Journal of Ecology, 82(4) pp. 987-8.