Research Funding
The TCBR receives no core funding apart from a small annual grant from the School of Natural Sciences which currently allows us to employ Dr Ainhoa González Del Campo as a Research Officer (one day per week). Funding for research comes from the activity of PIs. Research funding totalling >€7.5 million has been awarded to TCBR PIs during the period 2007-mid 2012.
Research projects currently underway which are associated with the Centre include:
- Legume-supported Cropping Systems for Europe, PIs - Mike Williams and Jane Stout EU FP7
- Toxic nectar and pollen: impacts on flower-visiting mutualists and antagonists and role in invasion success, PI Jane Stout, Funding SFI RFP 2010 and IRCSET
- Plant-pollinator interactions in priority habitats, PI Jane Stout, Funding TCD studentship
- Effects of scale and landscape structure on pollinator diversity and the provision of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, PI Jane Stout, Funding IRCSET
- How Conflict and Cooperation Shape the Evolution of Social Behaviour: From Individual Interactions to Group Structure, PI Andrew Jackson, Funding IRCSET / Marie Curie
- Linking processes to ecological patterns, PI Andrew Jackson, Funding PRTLI
- Behaviour and foraging ecology of white-backed (Gyps africanus) vultures in Swaziland. PI Andrew Jackson, Funding TCD studentship
- Bioplan: Implementation of an assessment and monitoring programme for biodiversity in Irish and British forests, PIs Daniel Kelly and Fraser Mitchell, Funding COFORD
- Assessing the Conservation Status of Petrifying Springs in Ireland, PI Daniel Kelly, Funding NPWS and IRCSET
- Assessing epiphyte diversity of tropical montane forest in Honduras, PI Daniel Kelly, Funding Operation Wallacea
- Morphological diversity and convergent evolution of Malagasy tenrecs, PI Natalie Cooper, Funding IRCSET
- Characterization of resistance and lignin genes in Salix, PI Trevor Hodkinson, Funding Teagasc
- GrassMargins, PI Trevor Hodkinson, Funding EU FP7
- Predicting ecological status of unmonitored lakes based on relationships between status, hydromorphological and land use characteristics, PI Ian Donohue, Funding EPA
- Integrating hydromorphology into typology to improve risk assessment of Irish lakes, PI Ian Donohue, Funding EPA
- Development of targeted ecological modelling tools for lake management, PI Ian Donohue, Funding EU INTERREG
- The Earth and Natural Sciences Doctoral Studies Programme, PI Fraser Mitchell and others, HEA PRTLI 5
- Integrated Biodiversity Impact Assessment – Practitioners Manual, PI Ainhoa González Del Campo, EPA STRIVE.