An article written by Louise Redgrave, The Landmark Practice ’s principal ecologist , has featured in this month’s edition of ‘In Practice’, the bulletin of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM). The article describes the innovative great crested newt mitigation strategy that The Landmark Practice has developed along with David Wilson Homes at Marnel Park, Basingstoke Download the IEEM article here
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One M.S. research assistantship is available in Alan Wilson’s lab http://www.wilsonlab.com at Auburn University (AU) to study basic and applied limnology/aquatic ecology. Current lab research projects revolve around understanding the ecological and genetic mechanisms mediating harmful cyanobacterial blooms and include an NSF-funded project focused on elucidating the ecosystem-level consequences
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Aquatic Weed Harvesters have been around for about 40+ years. The concept has not changed much over the years but the technology and the way they are built has been improved as new technology has evolved. The machines are basically like lawn mowers for water weeds. The front head of the machine drops down into the water and is equipped with a sickle bar type cutter that cuts the vegetation. The cut weeds are than brought onto the aquatic weed harvester by the use of a front conveyor belt system. The cut vegetation is than piled on a secondary conveyor system that runs the ...
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The Landmark Practice ecologist s have been monitoring the effectiveness of the great crested newt mitigation strategy at Marnel Park, Basingstoke. Monitoring has been undertaken since the commencement of the project in 2004 (on behalf of David Wilson Homes) and preliminary analysis shows that the breeding population of great crested newt in Popley Ponds Site of Importance to Nature Conservation (SINC) may even be expanding. The mitigation strategy for great crested newts at Marnel Park includes the creation and maintenance of high quality terrestrial habitat for the newts (species-rich grassland and scrub) with purpose-built hibernation sites, including two 40 m wide habitat corridors through ...
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POSTDOC in Terrestrial / aquatic Ecology The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The Project Group Biodiversity Research of the NIOO conducts multidisciplinary studies to compare interactions between resources, primary producers, herbivores and their diversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine benthic habitats. We are looking for a POSTDOC [...]
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