Current Post: Lecturer in Ecology
Room Number: 01.13
Telephone: 01603 593175 (+44 1603 593175)
Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)
Email: p.dolman@uea.ac.uk
Publications: EPrints Digital Repository
Research Interests
Evidence based conservation, landscape scale population processes, conservation in anthropogenic landscapes.
Biography
I lead a team that carries out research to underpin the evidence-based conservation of biodiversity, in landscapes modified by human activity.
We have developed a systematic method for regional Biodiversity Audit, that for the first time quantifies the biodiversity present in a biogeographical region, objectively defines priorities for conservation, and analyses the management requirements of cross-taxa guilds for integrated delivery. Other research in the UK examines effects of management and landscape configuration on the demography, spatial population dynamics and dispersal of contrasting taxa (spiders, carabids, plants, birds) in a 200 km2 managed forest landscape. Our international work assesses consequences of human land-use for threatened species; current projects include the conservation ecology of critically endangered Bengal Florican and White-shouldered Ibis in contrasting traditional agricultural landscapes of Cambodia; the conservation ecology of Kori bustard and livestock grazing in Botswana; and agricultural landscapes of Cyprus.
Website for Biodiversity Audit research:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e313602/Biodiversity_audit/index.html
Significant Publications
- Dolman, P.M., Panter, C.J., Mossman, H.L. (in press) The Biodiversity Audit Approach: challenging regional prioritisation and mismatch of conservation action. Journal of Applied Ecology.
- Wright, H.L., Lake, I.R., Dolman, P.M. (2012). Agriculture - a key element for conservation in the developing world. Conservation Letters 5, 11-19. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00208.x
- Holt, C.A., Fuller, R.J., Dolman, P.M. (2011) Breeding and post-breeding responses of woodland birds to modification of habitat structure by deer. Biological Conservation 144, 2151-2162. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.05.004
- Urquiza-Haas, T. Peres, C., Dolman, P.M. (2009) Regional scale effects of human density and forest disturbance on large-bodied vertebrates throughout the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Biological Conservation 142, 134-148. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.10.007
- Wright, L.J., Hoblyn, R.A., Green, R.E., Bowden, C.G.R., Mallord, J.W., Sutherland W.J., and Dolman, P.M. (2009) Importance of climatic and environmental change in the demography of a multi-brooded passerine, the woodlark Lullula arborea. Journal of Animal Ecology 78, 1191–1202. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01582.x.
- Sutherland, W.J., Pullin, A.S., Dolman, P.M., Knight, T.M. (2004). The need for evidence-based conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19, 305-308. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.03.018, ISSN 0169-5347.
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