Current projects
| Project title & description | Project head | Funder | Start | End |
| Sussex study Long-term monitoring of the cereal ecosystem on 62 km2 of the South Downs in Sussex |
Julie Ewald | Core funds | 1968 | Ongoing |
| Farm4Bio To compare different ways of managing uncropped land for farmland wildlife and to identify the proportion of land needed |
John Holland & Rothamsted Research, British Trust for Ornithology, The Arable Group |
Defra, HGCA, Bayer CropScience, BASF, Cotswolds Seeds, Dow Agrosciences, Du Pont, PGRO, and Syngenta | 2006 | 2011 |
| The management of grasslands for wildlife and game Monitoring the impact of introduced game crops in grassland areas of south-west Scotland |
Dave Parish |
SAC, SGRPID | 2008 | 2011 |
| Wild game cropping Productivity in wild game in East Anglia compared to cropping patterns |
Roger Draycott |
Cobbold Trust, Chadacre Ttrust | 2008 | 2011 |
| Impacts of releasing Recovery of ground flora in pheasant release pens |
Rufus Sage, Andrew Hoodless |
Core funds | 2007 | 2012 |
| Conservation Grade To develop sustainable, multi-purpose, farmland wildlife crops |
John Holland | Conservation Grade Ltd |
2010 | 2015 |
| Invertebrates on arable weeds A meta-analysis of arable weeds and their associated invertebrate fauna |
Barbara Smith | Esmée Fairbairn Foundation |
2010 | 2011 |
| New Forest heather management To investigate rate of recolonisation of sites managed by burning |
Barbara Smith | New Forest National Park |
2010 | 2011 |
| Sainfoin To investigate the invertebrate ecology of sainfoin |
Barbara Smith | Core funds | 2010 | 2010 |
| TESS Transactional Environmental Support Systems Designing an environmental support system across Europe |
Julie Ewald | European Union | 2009 | 2012 |
| Wildlife monitoring at Rotherfield Park Monitoring of land use, game and songbirds for the Rotherfield Park demonstration project |
Francis Buner | Core funds | 2010 | 2014 |
| Langholm Moor Demonstration Project Moorland restoration to achieve driven grouse shooting and sustainable numbers of hen harriers |
David Baines | GWCT, Buccleugh Estates, Scottish Naturak Heritage, Natural England, RSPB |
2008 | 2018 |
| PhD studentships | Supervisor | Funder | Start | End |
| Invertebrate aerial dispersal To examine the dispersal of beneficial invertebrates within arable farmland |
John Holland, Barbara Smith, Dr Simon Leather/Imperial College, London | RELU | 2005 | 2011 |
| The population genetics of sawflies The impact of population dynamics on genetics and the implications for sawfly conservation |
Dave Parish, Dr Steve Hubbard/University of Dundee, Dr Joanne Russell & Dr Alison Karley/Scottish Crop Research Institute | BBSRC/CASE studentship, Scottish Crop Research Institute | 2007 | 2011 |
| Beetle ecology Molecular analysis of intra-guild predation and invertebrate community structure |
John Holland, Prof. Bill Symondson/University of Cardiff | BBSRC/CASE studentship | 2006 | 2011 |
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