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Research Statement
I develop approaches to understand and predict species' dynamics in a world of continuous change: temperature rise, land-use get intensified in some areas while others are abandoned, species are moved from one continent to another.
To achieve this, I use a combination of modelling and data analysis to reveal how species’ life-histories interact with environmental conditions and human intervention, to produce large-scale ecological patterns. I favour models as tools to address these questions for theoretical or applied studies. I juggle between modelling techniques to best approach the problem at hand, but I like those emphasizing mechanisms.
My work has a strong theoretical component, but is dedicated to providing tools to understand, predict, and manage the ecological aspects of global change. As a consequence my research is developed along two themes: 1) linking local processes to large-scale patterns, and 2) help manage species and landscapes.
For instance, I try to predict how species distributions will change with climate change; how farming or forestry practices impact biodiversity; how biodiversity contributes to ecosystem services.
Research Interests
Spatial ecology; Macroecology; Landscape ecology; Invasion biology; Population biology; Bayesian Inference; Individual-based models; trees; birds;
Teaching
BIO3206 "Conservation biology" - I developed this module to offer third year students an opportunity to deepen their understanding of ecological concepts and methods relevant for conservation, through interactive lectures, workshops and group work.
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Projects
- 3 Active
R1084BSC: Queens University Belfast and University of Aberdeen Doctoral Research and Training (QUADRAT)
Emmerson, M., Blaauw, M., Caplat, P., Helyar, S., McKinley, J., Roe, H. & Ruffell, A.
23/07/2019 → …
Project: Research
R1079NBE: Queens University Belfast & University of Aberdeen Doctoral Research and Training (QUADRAT)
McKinley, J., Blaauw, M., Caplat, P., Emmerson, M., Helyar, S., Roe, H. & Ruffell, A.
21/07/2019 → …
Project: Research
Research Output
Land cover drives large scale productivity-diversity relationships in Irish vascular plants
White, H. J., Gaul, W., Sadykova, D., León-Sánchez, L., Caplat, P., Emmerson, M. C. & Yearsley, J. M., 31 May 2019, In : PeerJ. 7, 5, 21 p., e7035.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Recommendation: Protected Areas effects on biodiversity: a test using bird data that hopefully will give ideas for much more studies to come
Caplat, P., 05 Apr 2019Research output: Other contribution
Open Access
Simulation model suggests that fire promotes lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) invasion in Patagonia
Davis, K. T., Maxwell, B. D., Caplat, P., Pauchard, A. & Nuñez, M. A., 23 Mar 2019, In : Biological Invasions.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Status, trends and future dynamics of bio diversity and ecosystems under pinning nature’s contributions to people
Visconti, P., Elias, V., Sousa Pinto, I., Fischer, M., Ali-Zade, V., Baldi, A., Brucet, S., Bukvareva, E., Byrne, K., Caplat, P., Feest, A., Gozlan, R., Jelic, D., Kikvidze, Z., Lavrillier, A., Le Roux, X., Lipka, O., Petrik, P., Shatz, B., Smelansky, I. & 1 others, , 2018, The IPBES Regional Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Europe and Central Asia. Rounsevell, M., Fischer, M., Torre-Marin Rando, A. & Mader, A. (eds.). Bonn, 892 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Equipped to cope with climate change: Traits associated with range filling across European taxa
Estrada, A., Morales-Castilla, I., Meireles, C., Caplat, P. & Early, R., 21 Aug 2017, In : Ecography. 40, 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Prizes
Best Poster at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting
Kerri-Ann Armstrong (Recipient) & Paul Caplat (Recipient), Dec 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Best student poster at British Ecological Society meeting 2019
Kerri-Ann Armstrong (Recipient), Eimear Rooney (Recipient), Sarah Helyar (Recipient), Mark Emmerson (Recipient) & Paul Caplat (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
ResTeach: teaching grant for postdoctoral fellows
Paul Caplat (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
REF peer review process (Event)
Paul Caplat (Reviewer)Jan 2020
Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
Agence Nationale De La Recherche (External organisation)
Paul Caplat (Board Member)Jan 2020
Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
SBS Assessment Working Group (External organisation)
Paul Caplat (Advisor)2020 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of national or international committees and working groups
School of Biological Sciences (Organisational unit)
Paul Caplat (Member)01 Sep 2019 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of board