Iain Green

Dr Iain Green

  • Deputy Head of Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Christchurch House C107, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

After gaining a BSc in Biology from the University of Portsmouth in 1992, Iain worked briefly as an industrial chemist before re-entering academia with Bournemouth University in 1993. The main focus of Iain’s research is the environmental effect of pollutants. His work has encompassed terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems and covers all levels of biology, from the cell to communities. Iain’s interest in pollution ecology was inspired as an undergraduate by the truly awesome and sadly late Dr. Dafydd Morgan-Huws, which was then further stoked by the work in the then School of Conservation Sciences. This led to the award of a PhD in 2003. More recently, Iain has being collaborating with a multidisciplinary team in the Environment & Threats Strategic Research Group at Bournemouth University, were he leads research into soil protection.

Research

Iain is an environmental biologist with a wide range of research interests under this broad area. Pollution ecology is passion, particularly where heavy metals are involved, but Iain’s research also includes work on organic pollutants and microplastics. His work is often focused on invertebrates, which Iain finds a lot more interesting than organisms with backbones! Iain is also fascinated by soil biology, particularly the important role soil microbes play in ecosystem services and function, but also the role that soil biology and chemistry play in forensic science. Iain is currently supervising five PhD students, but welcomes approaches from potential students interested in his areas of research.

Favourites

  • Zeng, H., Zhang, P., Ye, H., Ji, Y., Hogstrand, C., Green, I., Xiao, J., Fu, Q. and Guo, Z., 2021. Waterborne zinc bioaccumulation influences glucose metabolism in orange-spotted grouper embryos. Environmental Pollution, 283.
  • Tibbett, M., Green, I., Rate, A., De Oliveira, V.H. and Whitaker, J., 2021. The transfer of trace metals in the soil-plant-arthropod system. Science of the Total Environment, 779.
  • Parker, B., Andreou, D., Green, I.D. and Britton, J.R., 2021. Microplastics in freshwater fishes: Occurrence, impacts and future perspectives. Fish and Fisheries, 22 (3), 467-488.
  • Wei, L., Li, Y., Ye, H., Xiao, J., Hogstrand, C., Green, I., Guo, Z. and Han, D., 2021. Dietary Trivalent Chromium Exposure Up-Regulates Lipid Metabolism in Coral Trout: The Evidence From Transcriptome Analysis. Frontiers in Physiology, 12.
  • Duddigan, S., Fraser, T., Green, I., Diaz, A., Sizmur, T. and Tibbett, M., 2021. Plant, soil and faunal responses to a contrived pH gradient. Plant and Soil.
  • Duddigan, S., Gil-Martínez, M., Fraser, T., Green, I., Diaz, A., Sizmur, T., Pawlett, M., Raulund-Rasmussen, K. and Tibbett, M., 2020. Evaluating heathland restoration belowground using different quality indices of soil chemical and biological properties. Agronomy, 10 (8), 1140.
  • Tibbett, M., Gil-Martínez, M., Fraser, T., Green, I.D., Duddigan, S., De Oliveira, V.H., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Sizmur, T. and Diaz, A., 2019. Long-term acidification of pH neutral grasslands affects soil biodiversity, fertility and function in a heathland restoration. Catena, 180, 401-415.
  • Dar, M.I., Naikoo, M.I., Khan, F.A., Rehman, F., Green, I.D., Naushin, F. and Ansari, A.A., 2017. An introduction to reactive oxygen species metabolism under changing climate in plants. Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Systems in Plants: Role and Regulation under Abiotic Stress. 25-52.
  • Rowley, M.C., Estrada-Medina, H., Tzec-Gamboa, M., Rozin, A., Cailleau, G., Verrecchia, E.P. and Green, I., 2017. Moving carbon between spheres, the potential oxalate-carbonate pathway of Brosimum alicastrum Sw.; Moraceae. Plant and Soil, 412 (1-2), 465-479.
  • Guo, Z., Zhang, W., Du, S., Green, I., Tan, Q. and Zhang, L., 2016. Developmental patterns of copper bioaccumulation in a marine fish model Oryzias melastigma. Aquatic Toxicology, 170, 216-222.
  • Dar, M.I., Khan, F.A., Green, I.D. and Naikoo, M.I., 2015. The transfer and fate of Pb from sewage sludge amended soil in a multi-trophic food chain: a comparison with the labile elements Cd and Zn. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
  • Green, I.D. and Walmsley, K., 2013. Time-response relationships for the accumulation of Cu, Ni and Zn by seven-spotted ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata L.) under conditions of single and combined metal exposure. Chemosphere, 93 (1), 184-189.
  • Green, I.D., Diaz, A. and Tibbett, M., 2010. Factors affecting the concentration in seven spotted ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata L.) of Cd and Zn transferred through the food chain. Environmental Pollution, 158, 135-141.
  • Moody, C. and Green, I.D., 2010. Assimilation of Cd and Cu by the Carnivorous Plant Sarracenia leucophylla Raf. fed Contaminated Prey. Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 1610-1616.
  • Diaz, A., Green, I.D. and Tibbett, M., 2008. Re-Creation of Heathland on Improved Pasture using Top Soil Removal and Sulphur Amendments: Edaphic Drivers and Impacts on Ericoid Mycorrhizas. Biological Conservation, 141, 1628-1635.
  • Green, I.D. and Tibbett, M., 2008. Differential Uptake, Partitioning and Transfer of Cd and Zn in the Soil−Pea Plant−Aphid System. Environmental Science and Technology, 42, 450-455.
  • Diaz, A., Green, I.D., Benvenuto, M. and Tibbett, M., 2006. Are Ericoid Mycorrhizas a Factor in the Success of Calluna Vulgaris Heathland Restoration? Restoration Ecology, 14, 187-195.
  • Green, I.D., Jeffries, C., Diaz, A. and Tibbett, M., 2006. Contrasting Behaviour of Cadmium and Zinc in a Soil-Plant-Arthropod System. Chemosphere, 64, 1115-1121.
  • Green, I.D., Tibbett, M. and Diaz, A., 2005. Effects of aphid infestation on Cd and Zn concentration in wheat. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 109, 175-178.
  • Green, I.D., Merrington, G. and Tibbett, M., 2003. Transfer of cadmium and zinc from sewage sludge amended soil through a plant-aphid system to newly emerged adult ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata). Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 99, 171-178.