Jenny Gill (ecologist)

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Jenny Gill (actually Jennifer Agnes Gill ; * July 1968 in England) is a British ornithologist and ecologist.

Life

In 1990, Gill received her bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Edinburgh . In 1994 she graduated from the University of East Anglia with a Ph.D. PhD in Population Ecology. From 1994 to 1998 she held a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds sponsored post as Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. From 1998 to 2001 she did research for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) at the University of East Anglia. From 2001 to 2003 she was Senior Research Fellow at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research . From 2003 to 2006 she was a member of the Natural Environment Research Council. From 2006 to 2007 she was a lecturer , from 2007 to 2014 she was a reader and since 2014 she has been Professor of Applied Ecology at the University of East Anglia.

Research work

Gill's interests focus on the ecology and evolution of migration systems and on issues of managing the effects of environmental change on biodiversity . She researches the large-scale population regulation of migratory shorebirds and the development of instruments for the management of coastal habitats. In the 2000s she published the results of a long-term study on a population of the Icelandic black godwit ( Limosa limosa islandica ), in which from 1995 about one to two percent of this population received an individual color mark. A network of hundreds of volunteer bird watchers across Europe made it possible to decipher the relationships between habitats of different quality in summer and winter and to follow the population expansion in habitats of inferior quality in both seasons. These relationships have profound consequences for a range of population and evolutionary processes that Gill and her co-workers are researching in detail. Gill's other research projects include studies of the effects of climate change on coastal habitats in the UK and on small island states in the Caribbean, the management of lowland habitats for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the UK, exploring the ecological and behavioral restrictions on habitat expansion in migratory birds , research into the causes of changes in the population of migratory birds, research into the population dynamics of arctic terns in Iceland, research into climatic effects and conservation management on breeding lapwing , research into the effects of rising sea temperatures, hurricane intensity and the frequency and global atmospheric processes Coral reefs in the Caribbean as well as ecological and economic sustainability project together with the University of Iceland and Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands (Icelandic Natural History Institute) e ects for the eider population in Iceland.

Memberships and Activities

From 2005 to 2008, Gill was Chair of the British Ornithologists' Union's Ibis Journal Committee . From 2009 to 2011 she was Vice President of the British Ornithologists' Union. Since 2001 she has been an editorial member of the journal Ringing & Migration and since 2004 editor of the journal Bird Study . From 2005 to 2008 was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Peer Review Board of the Natural Environment Research Council. Since 2010 she has been a member of the All-party Parliamentary Group on Biodiversity and the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Sustainability (BESS) Program Advisory Group of the Natural Environment Research Council. From 2011 to 2015 she was President of the British Ornithologists' Union, the second woman to head this organization after Janet Kear . She has been co-editor of the Journal of Animal Ecology since 2015 . Jenny Gill was elected Chair of the Council of the British Trust for Ornithology for the period from 2016 to 2020 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JA Gill, K. Norris, PM Potts, TG Gunnarsson, PW Atkinson, WJ Sutherland: The buffer effect and large-scale population regulation in migratory birds. In: Nature. 412 (6845), 2001, pp. 436-438.
  2. ↑ Gill, J., Norris, K., Sutherland, W .: The effects of disturbance on habitat use by black-tailed godwits Limosa limosa In: Journal of Applied Ecology , 38, 2001, pp. 846-856
  3. ↑ Gunnarsson, T., Gill, J., Potts, P., Atkinson, P., Croger, R., Gelinaud, G., Gardarsson, A., Sutherland, W. Estimating population size in Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa islandica by color-marking. In: Bird Study 52, 2005, pp. 153-158
  4. ↑ Andrea Hoferichter: Birds on England's south coast live longer In: Bild der Wissenschaft from July 27, 2001, accessed on May 1, 2017
  5. ↑ British Ornithologists' Union Union Medal: Jennifer A. Gill In: Ibis, Volume 159, Issue 3, July 2017, 709-710
personal data
SURNAME Gill, Jenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gill, Jennifer Agnes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ornithologist and ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH England