Andrew Ramsey
Lecturer
Department: Biosciences
University of Derby
United Kingdom
Biography
I am an ecologist and conservation biologist and teach these specialisms at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I am Programme Leader for Zoology and supervise a range of PhD students. I am also the research lead for 'Eco-sustainability and evolution' in the University of Derby's 'Environmental Sustainability Research Centre'.
Research Interest
I am interested in using multidisciplinary approaches to research the ecology and conservation of species in cultural ecosystems; this has included the biodiversity and socioeconomic aspects of conservation in oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo and harvesting woodfuel on biodiversity in British Woodlands. I am also interested in conservation in freshwater systems - currently supervising two PhD students investigating ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels and one on the detection of freshwater invasive species using eDNA techniques.
Publications
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Lavictoire, L., Moorkens, E., Ramsey, A., Sweeting, R & Sinclair, W. (2016) Effects of substrate size and cleaning regime on growth and survival of captive-bred juvenile freshwater pearl mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758). Hydrobiologia.
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Darrell Smith, Ian Convery, Andrew Ramsey & Viktor Kouloumpis l (2016). An Expression of Multiple Values: The Relationship Between Community, Landscape and Natural Resource. Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History, 3(1): 6, 1–14, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/rl.31
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Sweet, M., Ramsey. A.D. & Bulling, M. (2017) Designer reefs and coral probiotics; great concepts but are they good practice? Biodiversity. DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2017.1307786
