Aoife Delaney
research fellow
Botany
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Aoife Delaney graduated with a degree in Botany from Trinity College Dublin in 2005, and went on to do an M.Res. in Biodiversity and Conservation at Leeds University, before returning to Trinity to do a PhD on the ecology and hydrogeology of dune slacks. In between the Masters and PhD, she worked for over six years in conservation monitoring and research with BEC Consultants. Her early work focussed on hedgerows, woodlands and rainforest ecology, but she has worked extensively in high quality grasslands and, since 2010, particularly on coastal habitats. Currently, she is employed by RSPB as a conservation scientist on the Darwin Initiative funded project “Building resilient landscapes and livelihoods in Burkina Faso’s shea parklands”, led by Bird Life International, on which Trinity is a partner. Aoife is located in the Plant-Animal Interactions group at Trinity and her role involves determining the relationship between habitat composition and structure and pollination services in Shea in southern Burkina Faso.
Research Interest
Botany
Publications
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Stout JC, Anthropogenic impacts on pollination networks and plant mating systems, Functional Ecology, 28, 2014, p1 - 2
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Bourke D, Stanley D, O Rourke E, Thompson R, Carnus T, Dauber J, Emmerson M, Whelan P, Hecq F, Fynn E, Dolan L, Stout JC, Response of farmland biodiversity to the introduction of bioenergy crops: effects of local factors and surrounding landscape context, Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 6, 2014, 275-289
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Stout JC, Finn JA, Recognising the value of insects in providing ecosystem services, Ecological Entomology, 40, 2015, p1 - 2,
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Kessler SC, Tiedeken EJ, Simcock KL, Derveau S, Mitchell J, Softley S, Radcliffe A, Stout JC, Wright GA, Bees prefer foods containing neonicotinoid pesticides, Nature , 521, (7550), 2015, p74-76
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Tiedeken EJ, Stout JC, Insect-flower interaction network structure is resilient to a temporary pulse of floral resources from invasive Rhododendron ponticum, PLoS ONE, 10, 2015, pe0119733
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Dauber J, Cass S, Gabriel D, Harte K, Åström S, O Rourke E & Stout JC, Yield-biodiversity trade-off in patchy fields of Miscanthus x giganteus, Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 7, (3), 2015, p455-467
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Power EF Jackson Z and Stout JC , Organic farming and landscape factors affect abundance and richness of hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) in grasslands, Journal of Insect Conservation, 9, 2016, p244-253
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Brown MJF, Dicks LV, Paxton RJ, Baldock KCR, Barron AB, Chauzat M-P, Freitas BM, Goulson D, Jepsen S, Kremen C, Li J, Neumann P, Pattemore DE, Potts SG, Schweiger O, Seymour CL, Stout JC, A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination, PeerJ, 4, 2016, pe2249
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De Palma A, Abrahamczyk S, Aizen MA, Albrecht M, Basset Y, Bates A, Blake RJ, Boutin C, Bugter R, Connop S, Cruz-López L, Cunningham SA, Darvill B, Diekötter T, Dorn S, Downing N, Entling MH, Farwig N, Felicioli A, Fonte SJ, Fowler R, Franzén M, Goulson D, Grass I, Hanley ME, Hendrix SD, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Holzschuh A, Jauker B, Kessler M, Knight ME, Kruess A, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, Lentini P, Malone LA, Marshall J, Pachón EM, McFrederick QS, Morales CL, Mudri-Stojnic S, Nates-Parra G, Nilsson SG, Öckinger E, Osgathorpe L, Parra-H A, Peres CA, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Poveda K, Power EF, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Rader R, Richards MH, Roulston Ta, Rousseau L, Sadler JP, Samnegård U, Schellhorn NA, Schüepp C, Schweiger O, Smith-Pardo AH, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stout JC, Tonietto RK, Tscharntke T, Tylianakis JM, Verboven HAF, Vergara CH, Verhulst J, Westphal C, Yoon HJ, Purvis A., Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases, Scientific Reports, 6, 2016, p31153
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Egan P, Stevenson PC, Wright GA, Boylan F, Stout JC, Plant toxin levels in nectar vary spatially across native and introduced populations, Journal of Ecology, 104, 2016, p1106-1115
