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Prof. Nick Birch is an Honorary Associate with expertise on Integrated Pest and Disease Management (IPM) research at the James Hutton Institute.
For details of ongoing IPM research areas and projects, please visit the IPM@Hutton website.
Long-term research goals
Policy led environmental research with practical outcomes for global agriculture:
Richard is a soil surveyor, vegetation ecologist, landscape historian and forensic botanist. He has worked across a wide variety of landscapes and habitat types including mountains, moorlands/heathlands, woodlands, wetlands/peatlands, grasslands, coastal, urban, and arable plant systems throughout Scotland and has an excellent knowledge of the National Vegetation Classification (NVC) as well as Phase 1 vegetation mapping.
Professor Alison Hester FRSB FRSGS is a senior scientist and Baillie Gifford Entrepreneurial Research Fellow at the James Hutton Institute,
Nick is an applied ecologist with a strong background in wildlife conservation. He sits on the Advisory Group of the
Glenn Iason is an ecologist with 30 years experience of research, mainly in plant-herbivore interactions. He has experience of work with a broad range of animal species (hares and rabbits, African buffalo, deer, moose and domestic ruminants and invertebrates species) in a range of ecosystems including the Arctic, Boreal forests, moorland, African savanna and agricultural environments.
My research has focused on understanding the mechanisms governing the population regulation in free ranging herbivores with an emphasis on the role that disease plays in the dynamics of these ecosystems.
Science/Policy/Education
Global issues in sustainable systems, ecological resilience, food security and environmental impact (EU, Scottish Government)
Gene movement and persistence in higher plants (Defra, EU).
Eric has more than 25 years’ experience of working on plant-soil interactions in the context of sustainable crop production systems,
