Richard Stillman

Professor Richard Stillman

  • Professor Of Conservation Ecology
  • Christchurch House C206, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I am an applied ecologist with an interest in predicting how environmental change and management influence animal populations. My research aims to advise policy makers, conservationists and industry on the best ways of reconciling the interests of wildlife with those of humans. My main study species have been wading birds (e.g. oystercatcher, black-tailed godwit, redshank, dunlin) and wildfowl (e.g. Brent geese), and my research has addressed environmental conflicts when the coastal habitats of these species are also exploited by humans (e.g. for recreation, land reclamation, shellfishing, port, wind farm, tidal barrage and nuclear power development). I conduct research on foraging behaviour and decision making to search for general rules in the ways that individual animals interact with each other and their environment. My applied research incorporates these general rules into computer individual-based models to predict how environmental change influences animal populations.