Research
His current research includes:
- The effects of land use change on species distributions
- Understanding the effects of upland management on biodiversity
- Population ecology, management, and population assessment of mountain hares
Other interests and recent projects include;
- Investigating the effects of deer carcasses on upland food webs
- Survey and scoping of wildcat priority areas
- WiSE (Wireless Internet Sensing Environment)
- Population ecology of mountain hares; the role of parasites and food availability on mountain hare population dynamics
- FP7Hunt: Hunting for Sustainability
- North Hunt: Sustainable Hunting Tourism
- Compensatory population dynamics in a harvested mammal (Annabel Harrison – NERC CASE studentship).
Publications
The following Publications have not yet been migrated to the James Hutton Institute's Pure service and relate to the research outputs from the two legacy organisations: The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and The Scottish Crop Research Institute.
Journals
- Bisi, F.; Newey, S.J.; Nodari, M.; Wauters, L.A.; Harrison, A.; Thirgood, S.J.; Martinoli, A. (2011) The strong and the hungry: Bias in capture methods for mountain hares Lepus timidus., Wildlife Biology, 17, 311-316.
- Townsend, S.E.; Newey, S.J.; Thirgood, S.J.; Haydon, D.T. (2011) Dissecting the drivers of population cycles: interactions between parasites and mountain hare demography., Ecological Modelling, 222, 48-56.
- Newey, S.J.; Allison, P.; Thirgood, S.J.; Smith, A.A.; Graham, I.M. (2010) Population and individual level effects of over-winter supplementary feeding mountain hares., Journal of Zoology, 282, 214-220.
- Patton, V.; Ewald, J.; Smith, A.A.; Newey, S.J.; Iason, G.R.; Thirgood, S.J.; Raynor, R. (2010) Distribution of mountain hares (Lepus timidus) in Scotland: results from a questionnaire., Mammal Review, 40, 313-326.
- Harrison, A.; Newey, S.J.; Gilbert, L.; Haydon, D.T.; Thirgood, S.J. (2010) Culling wildlife hosts to control disease: mountain hares, red grouse and louping ill virus., Journal of Applied Ecology, 46, 926-930.
- Newey, S.J.; Allison, P.; Thirgood, S.J.; Smith, A.; Graham, I. (2010) Using PIT tag technology to target supplementary feeding studies., Wildlife Biology, 15, 405-411.
- Townsend, S.E.; Newey, S.J.; Thirgood, S.J.; Matthews, L.; Haydon, D.T. (2009) Can parasites drive population cycles in mountain hares?, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 276, 1611-1617.
- Newey, S.J.; Dahl, F.; Willebrand, T.; Thirgood, S.J. (2007) Unstable dynamics and population regulation in mountain hares: a review., Biological Reviews, 82, 527-549.
- Newey, S.J.; Willebrand, T.; Haydon, D.; Dahl, F.; Aebischer, N.; Smith, A.; Thirgood, S.J. (2007) Do mountain hare populations cycle?, Oikos, 116, 1547-1557.
- Newey, S.J.; Shaw, D.J.; Kirby, A.; Montieth, P.; Hudson, P.J.; Thirgood, S.J. (2005) Prevalence, intensity and aggregation of intestinal parasites in mountain hares and their potential impact on population dynamics., International Journal for Parasitology, 35, 367-373.
Prior to appointment
- Newey, S.J.; Thirgood, S.J.; Hudson, P.J. (2004) Do parasites influence condition and fecundity of female mountain hares?, Wildlife Biology, 10, 171-176.
- Newey, S.J.; Thirgood, S.J. (2004) Parasite-mediated reduction in fecundity of mountain hares., Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 271(Suppl 6.) S413-S415.
- Newey, S.J.; Bell, M.; Enthoven, S.; Thirgood, S.J. (2003) Can distance sampling and dung plots be used to assess the density of mountain hares Lepus timidus?, Wildlife Biology, 9, 185-192.
- Newey, S.J.; Sillero-Zubiri, C. (eds.) (2002) Monitoring Ethiopian wolf populations: A field manual., Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Oxford University, UK. ISBN: 0-9529371-7-4
- Newey, S.J.; Seed, R. (1994) The effects of the Braer oil spill on rocky intertidal communities, Shetland, UK., Marine Pollution Bulletin, 30, 274-280.
Technical / contract reports
- Newey, S.J.; Potts, J.; Baines, D.; Castillo, U.; Duncan, M.; Harrison, A.; Ramsay, S.; Thirgood, S.J.; Iason, G.R. (2011) Development of a reliable method for estimating mountain hare numbers., Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No.444.
- Newey, S.J.; Smith, A. (2010) Red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus in Scotland., In: Game monitoring systems supporting the development of sustainable hunting tourism in Northern Europe: A review of current practises (eds. S. Newey, F. Dahl, and S. Kurki). University of Helsinki, Finland, Ruralia Institute Reports 66. 50p. ISBN 978-952-10-6473-9
- Newey, S.J.; Dahl, F.; Kurki, S. (2010) Game monitoring systems supporting the development of sustainable hunting tourism in Northern Europe: A review of current practises., University of Helsinki, Finland, Ruralia Institute Reports 66. 50p. ISBN 978-952-10-6473-9
- Mustin, K.; Newey, S.; Slee, B. (2010) Styles of shooting management and the local and regional economic impacts of sport shooting in the Scottish Highlands., In: The economic role of hunting tourism – examples from Northern areas (eds. A. Matilainen and S. Keskinarkaus). University of Hlesinki, Finland, Ruralia Institute Reports 64. 108p. ISBN 978-952-10-6474-6
- Newey, S.J.; Potts, J.M.; Iason, G.R.; Baines, D.; Harrison, A.; Ramsay, S.; Duncan, M.; Castillo, U.; Thirgood, S.J. (2009) Development of a reliable method for estimating mountain hare numbers., Scottish Natural Heritage Interim Report.
- Kinrade, V.; Ewald, J.; Smith, A.; Newey, S.J.; Iason, G.R..; Thirgood, S.J.; Raynor, R. (2008) The distribution of mountain hare (Lepus timidus) in Scotland (2006/07)., Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No.278 (ROAME No. F05AC701).
- Newey, S.J.; Iason, G.R.; Raynor, R. (2008) The conservation status and management of mountain hares., Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report, No. 287, 33pp. (ROAME No. F05AC316).
Conference papers
- Harrison, A.; Newey, S.J.; Haydon, D.; Thirgood, S.J. (2010) Hunting of mountain hare in Scotland., Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences Seminar Series, University of Hull, 14 April 2010.
- Harrison, A.; Newey, S.J.; Haydon, D.T.; Thirgood, S.J. (2010) Dispersal of mountain hares in Scotland: the effects of harvesting., Mammal Society Annual Meeting, University of Bangor, UK, 26-28 March, 2010.
- Harrison, A.; Newey, S.J.; Haydon, D.T.; Thirgood, S.J. (2010) Survival costs of dispersal in mountain hare leverets in Scotland, British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, University of Leeds, 7-9 September, 2010.
- Harrison, A.; Newey, S.J.; Haydon, D.T.; Thirgood, S.J. (2010) Dispersal, survival and hunting of the Mountain hare in Scotland., The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 2-6 October 2010.
- Townsend, S.E.; Newey, S.J.; Thirgood, S.J.; Matthews, L.; Haydon, D.T. (2007) Modelling population cycles of Scottish mountain hares as determined by a gut parasite., Mathematical Biology Ph.D. Students Meeting, Ross Priory, 3 October 2007
- Newey, S.J.; Allison, P.; Smith, A.; Graham, I.; Thirgood, S.J. (2007) The role of parasites and nutrition in driving unstable population dynamics in mountain hare Lepus timidus., International Union of Game Biologists XXVIII Congress, Uppsala, 13-18 August, 2007. Oral presentation.
Conference posters / abstracts
