Steve Albon
Honorary Research Associate
Ecological Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Steve Albon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy of Sciences and Letters, in 2008. He has held an Honorary Chair at the University of Aberdeen since 1997.
Research Interest
Steve is best known for his involvement in the long-term research on the population ecology of red deer on the Isle of Rum, and Soay sheep on St Kilda. Currently, he is collaborating with Mick Crawley (Imperial College), in supervising a NERC Open CASE student, Ana Bento, on the influence of weather on plant growth over almost 30 years on Rum and 20 years on St Kilda. With colleagues at the Institute he is analysing how the red deer population in Scotland has grown in relation to an ameliorating climate and the likely effects of the recent reduction in sheep grazing in the uplands.
Publications
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Lee, A.M.; Bjorkvoll, E.M.; Hansen, B.B.; Albon, S.D.; Stien, A.; Saether, B.E.; Engen, S.; Veiberg, V.; Loe, L.E.; Grotan, V., (2015) An integrated population model for a long-lived ungulate: more efficient data use with Bayesian methods., Oikos, 124, 806-816.
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Loe, L.E.; Hansen, B.B.; Stien, A.; Albon, S.D.; Bischof, R.; Carlsson, A.; Irvine, R.J.; Meland, M.; Rivrud, I.M.; Ropstad, E.; Veiberg,V.; Mysterud, A., (2016) Behavioral buffering of extreme weather events in a high- Arctic herbivore., Ecosphere, 7, 1-13.
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Bjorkvoll, E.; Lee, A.M.; Grotan, V.; Saether, B.E.; Stien, A.; Engen, S.; Albon, S.; Loe, L.E.; Hansen, B.B,., (2016) Demographic buffering of life histories? Implications of the choice of measurement scale., Ecology, 97, 40-47.
