Upscaling Invasion Impact Prediction
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Sch of Biology
Abstract
This fellowship proposal plans to increase our capacity to predict the ways and magnitude in which non-native invasive species will cause damaging ecological impact and under what environmental scenarios. This will drastically enhance the efficiency of conservation interventions and proactive policy making to benefit biodiversity and human livelihoods.
Biodiversity loss is occurring rapidly in all ecosystems across the globe. Freshwater systems have the highest extinction rates in any system and are losing populations at an alarming rate. This is due to the interacting effects of climate change, non-native invasive species, and habitat loss. Around 10% of established non-native species populations are thought to cause negative impact, however, this changes under different climatic scenarios as environmental change can trigger benign populations to become damaging. Due to the speed of change it is not practical to wait until a species is present and causing damage in the environment. Pre-emptive action will vastly benefit global biodiversity goals and economies which lose US$162.7 billion annually due to biological invasions. These costs are incurred through damage to infrastructure, flooding, loss of ecosystem services, damage to fisheries, as well as management costs undertaken to control species of concern and mitigate damage.
To act pre-emptively to reduce these costs, we need accurate methods to predict which species will cause what negative impact, and under which environmental scenarios. Current methods are insufficient as they do not account for the complexity of natural environments nor the rate of global change. We need to use interdisciplinary approaches to unravel and predict the interacting twin threats of non-native invasive species and climate change at a global scale. Contemporary methods have not yet resolved this level of complexity which makes cohesive management action impossible.
Food web interactions determine the structure and composition of biological communities. If interactions in the food web change, this can drastically alter the functioning of the ecosystem and have knock on effects for all levels of biodiversity, as well as human livelihoods. Food web interactions can be measured in a standardised manner across all species. I will use interaction strength as a currency to track change across communities over space and time.
Foraging efficiency varies depending on physiology and morphology of both consumer and resource, and the outcomes are governed by of responses of both to environmental characteristics. Multi-disciplinary methods will be paired and tested in the laboratory and then upscaled to field campaigns under natural conditions. This will generate ecologically relevant data which will be used to develop a hypothesis testing model which will be used to predict the conditions in which an invasive species will cause negative ecological impact on native biodiversity regardless of invasion location or time since invasion. This will allow us to find general rules which control invasion dynamics and ecological impact regardless of climate and time, to be able to predict ecological outcome in advance and "future proof" legislation.
I am an aquatic ecologist who has developed and pioneered multi-disciplinary impact prediction methodology. The current project builds on my previous innovations and leverages my international partnerships. My vision is that the capacity of my partnerships are built up to function as an International Freshwater Invasions Network to tackle future pressing challenges which can only be solved through global cooperation. This fellowship will provide the foundation for the formation of this network and contribute to guiding more effective legislation and targeted invasive species management approaches which account for global climate change. In doing so, the outcomes of this research will directly combat rapid biodiversity loss in freshwater ecosystems.
Biodiversity loss is occurring rapidly in all ecosystems across the globe. Freshwater systems have the highest extinction rates in any system and are losing populations at an alarming rate. This is due to the interacting effects of climate change, non-native invasive species, and habitat loss. Around 10% of established non-native species populations are thought to cause negative impact, however, this changes under different climatic scenarios as environmental change can trigger benign populations to become damaging. Due to the speed of change it is not practical to wait until a species is present and causing damage in the environment. Pre-emptive action will vastly benefit global biodiversity goals and economies which lose US$162.7 billion annually due to biological invasions. These costs are incurred through damage to infrastructure, flooding, loss of ecosystem services, damage to fisheries, as well as management costs undertaken to control species of concern and mitigate damage.
To act pre-emptively to reduce these costs, we need accurate methods to predict which species will cause what negative impact, and under which environmental scenarios. Current methods are insufficient as they do not account for the complexity of natural environments nor the rate of global change. We need to use interdisciplinary approaches to unravel and predict the interacting twin threats of non-native invasive species and climate change at a global scale. Contemporary methods have not yet resolved this level of complexity which makes cohesive management action impossible.
Food web interactions determine the structure and composition of biological communities. If interactions in the food web change, this can drastically alter the functioning of the ecosystem and have knock on effects for all levels of biodiversity, as well as human livelihoods. Food web interactions can be measured in a standardised manner across all species. I will use interaction strength as a currency to track change across communities over space and time.
Foraging efficiency varies depending on physiology and morphology of both consumer and resource, and the outcomes are governed by of responses of both to environmental characteristics. Multi-disciplinary methods will be paired and tested in the laboratory and then upscaled to field campaigns under natural conditions. This will generate ecologically relevant data which will be used to develop a hypothesis testing model which will be used to predict the conditions in which an invasive species will cause negative ecological impact on native biodiversity regardless of invasion location or time since invasion. This will allow us to find general rules which control invasion dynamics and ecological impact regardless of climate and time, to be able to predict ecological outcome in advance and "future proof" legislation.
I am an aquatic ecologist who has developed and pioneered multi-disciplinary impact prediction methodology. The current project builds on my previous innovations and leverages my international partnerships. My vision is that the capacity of my partnerships are built up to function as an International Freshwater Invasions Network to tackle future pressing challenges which can only be solved through global cooperation. This fellowship will provide the foundation for the formation of this network and contribute to guiding more effective legislation and targeted invasive species management approaches which account for global climate change. In doing so, the outcomes of this research will directly combat rapid biodiversity loss in freshwater ecosystems.
Organisations
- University of Leeds (Lead Research Organisation)
- Ege University (Collaboration)
- University of Wollongong (Collaboration)
- Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum Senckenberganlage (Collaboration)
- Bangka Belitung University (Collaboration)
- University of Leuven (Collaboration)
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Collaboration)
- Romanian Academy (Collaboration)
- Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Collaboration)
- University of Kragujevac (Collaboration)
- University of Florence (Collaboration)
- University of Zambia (Collaboration)
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) (Collaboration)
- University of Florida (Collaboration)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Collaboration)
- Washington and Lee University (Collaboration)
- McGill University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- US National Park Service (Collaboration)
- University of Zimbabwe (Collaboration)
- University of Toulouse (Collaboration)
- West University of Timisoara (Collaboration)
- Justus Liebig University Giessen (Collaboration)
- University of Evora (Collaboration)
- South African National Biodiversity Institute (Collaboration)
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (Collaboration)
- Brigham Young University Idaho (Collaboration)
- Marine Institute (Collaboration)
- University of New Mexico (Collaboration)
- University of Trieste (Collaboration)
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (Collaboration)
- University of South Bohemia (Collaboration)
- Wageningen University & Research (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Poitiers (Collaboration)
- University of Paris-Saclay (Collaboration)
- Polish Academy of Sciences (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford (Collaboration)
- Nicholls State University (Collaboration)
- University of Lodz (Collaboration)
- University of Zagreb (Collaboration)
- University of Western Macedonia (Collaboration)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (Collaboration)
- Austral University of Chile (Collaboration)
- University of Pavia (Collaboration)
- University of Illinois (Collaboration)
- Estonian University of Life Sciences (Collaboration)
- University of Washington (Collaboration)
- Tennessee Technological University (Collaboration)
- Firat University (Collaboration)
- Hacettepe University (Project Partner)
- Government of Zambia (Project Partner)
- Airlangga University (Project Partner)
- South African Inst Aquatic Biodiversity (Project Partner)
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (Project Partner)
- Bournemouth University (Project Partner)
Publications
Nawa N
(2024)
Complex selection processes on invasive crayfish phenotype at the invasion front of the Zambezi floodplains ecoregion
in Freshwater Biology
Pritchard Cairns J
(2024)
A systematic review of poeciliid fish invasions in Africa.
in BMC ecology and evolution
| Description | Non-native invasive crayfish evolve longer legs which allows them to disperse more and colonise further areas, as shown in a wetland in Zambia. Poeciliid fish which have been introduced into continental Africa historically for disease mosquito control and more recently through the aquarium trade, show limited impact on mosquito prevalence but high potential damage to native fish populations |
| Exploitation Route | Outcomes from this funding can be used in major international biosecurity policy |
| Sectors | Education Environment |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| Country | Greece |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Austral University of Chile |
| Country | Chile |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Bangka Belitung University |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Brigham Young University Idaho |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Czech University of Life Sciences Prague |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Ege University |
| Country | Turkey |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Country | Estonia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Firat University |
| Country | Turkey |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) |
| Department | Biological Research Centre (BRC) |
| Country | Hungary |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Justus Liebig University Giessen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Marine Institute |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | McGill University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Nicholls State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| Country | Poland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Romanian Academy |
| Country | Romania |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum Senckenberganlage |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) |
| Department | Doñana Biological Station |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Tennessee Technological University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | US National Park Service |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Evora |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Illinois |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Kragujevac |
| Country | Serbia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Leuven |
| Department | VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Lodz |
| Country | Poland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of New Mexico |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Pavia |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Poitiers |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Poitiers |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of South Bohemia |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Toulouse |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Trieste |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Washington |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Western Macedonia |
| Country | Greece |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Wollongong |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Zagreb |
| Country | Croatia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Zambia |
| Country | Zambia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | University of Zimbabwe |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Wageningen University & Research |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | Washington and Lee University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRAyfish Functional Trait (CraFT) |
| Organisation | West University of Timisoara |
| Country | Romania |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I ran a workshop at NeoBiota conference in September 2024 with experts in crayfish invasions to understand gaps and ways forward in using crayfish as a generalisable animal model for invasion processes. From this a major gap on crayfish functional traits was identified and thus the CRAFT network was instigated. I am coordinating a global data gathering exercise of 700+ valid crayfish species at the individual and population level to create better predictive models. Currently there are 75 collaborators covering 50+ countries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are contributing idea generation, database development and critical primary data to populate the database. This includes research time as contributions and collection of additional datasets. A key contribution is the development of worldofcrayfish platform which the trait database will be integrated into - giving a hugely powerful interactive biodiversity database. |
| Impact | One international workshop held at NeoBiota 2024, Lisbon Portugal On-going construction of a multi-national trait database |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | INVAPACT |
| Organisation | University of Paris-Saclay |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | INVAPACT aims to create a new metric and standardised unit for assessing invasive species across all realms and taxa to provide simple communication for policy makers. Two members of my team attended a week long workshop in Paris to develop ideas. Four members of my team gathered data for analysis. Two members of my team are participating in an Artificial Intelligence vs Humans publication. One paper is in review in Trends in Ecology and Evolution based on expert opinion regarding typology of invasive species impacts. I provide expertise on impact assessment metrics and their shortfalls aswell as aquatic invasions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners at Universite Paris-Saclay won funding for two large scale workshops attended by myself and my team. Partners supported full funding of two PhD students from my team to attend in my place as part of ECR capacity development. |
| Impact | Two international workshops |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ISOFRESH |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I provide invasive species ecology and fish/crayfish expertise to the team. I contribute network links, primary data and analytical work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organisation and management of a CESAB funded project which funds 6 in person meetings over three years. Contribution of expertise, global isotope database, know-how. |
| Impact | Three week-long workshops Two global databases of full freshwater food webs comprising over 1000 individual foodwebs, one at species level and another with individual measurements of fish linked to carbon and nitrogen values |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ISOFRESH |
| Organisation | University of Toulouse |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I provide invasive species ecology and fish/crayfish expertise to the team. I contribute network links, primary data and analytical work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organisation and management of a CESAB funded project which funds 6 in person meetings over three years. Contribution of expertise, global isotope database, know-how. |
| Impact | Three week-long workshops Two global databases of full freshwater food webs comprising over 1000 individual foodwebs, one at species level and another with individual measurements of fish linked to carbon and nitrogen values |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | ISOFRESH |
| Organisation | University of Washington |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I provide invasive species ecology and fish/crayfish expertise to the team. I contribute network links, primary data and analytical work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organisation and management of a CESAB funded project which funds 6 in person meetings over three years. Contribution of expertise, global isotope database, know-how. |
| Impact | Three week-long workshops Two global databases of full freshwater food webs comprising over 1000 individual foodwebs, one at species level and another with individual measurements of fish linked to carbon and nitrogen values |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Invasion impacts over time in a protected area |
| Organisation | South African National Biodiversity Institute |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I designed, manage and curate the data for this project. This includes staff time, equipment, data curation, data processing costs, analysis costs and logistics. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SANParks and SANBI contribute staff time and expertise on molecular biology, fish ecology, macroinvertebrate ecology, and contribution in kind for accommodation, equipment, permits and fees. |
| Impact | One field season complete with training implemented during the programme for scientific game rangers and interns at SANBI, one MSc project completed Multi-disciplinary: molecular ecology, eDNA, microbial ecology, water management, invasion science, macro-ecology |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Institute of Animal Technicians AAM Invited Speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker on ethical use of higher decapods in research as they have been legislated as sentient but not included in ASPA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Interview for fly fishing magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for free international fly fishing magazine "The Mission" - publicised on Instagram, free in print and via mail. Over 300 likes on instagram. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://themissionflymag.com/magazines/issue-50/ |