Professional summary

Claire is an internationally renowned expert on pollinator ecology with over twenty years research and project management experience in the Biodiversity Science Area at UKCEH. She uses a combination of field observations, experiments, molecular genetics, analyses of long-term datasets, community science and modelling approaches, interacting with a range of stakeholders and colleagues in different disciplines to improve environmental policy and practice. Claire leads the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme and is programme manager for AgZero+, an ambitious five-year National Capability research programme supporting the UK’s transition towards domestic food production that is sustainable, carbon-neutral and has a positive effect on nature.

Claire is an Advisory Steering Group member for Defra’s National Pollinator Strategy, scientific advisor for the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and recent expert at the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee oral evidence session on insect declines, member of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS) and Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (RES).

Web tools and apps

The FIT Count app: https://ukpoms.org.uk/fit-count-app 

Selected publications

Carvell Claire et al. , (2017), Bumblebee family lineage survival is enhanced in high-quality landscapes. Nature, 543, 547-549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature21709

O'Connor Rory S. et al. , (2019), Monitoring insect pollinators and flower visitation: the effectiveness and feasibility of different survey methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 2129-2140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13292

Breeze Tom D. et al. , (2021), Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58, 44-57, http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13755

Powney Gary D. et al. , (2019), Widespread losses of pollinating insects in Britain. Nature Communications, 10, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08974-9

Carvell Claire et al. , (2022), Establishment and management of wildflower areas for insect pollinators in commercial orchards. Basic and Applied Ecology, 58, 2-14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.11.001

Dicks Lynn V. et al. , (2015), How much flower-rich habitat is enough for wild pollinators? Answering a key policy question with incomplete knowledge . 40, 22-35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12226

Redhead J.W. et al. , (2015), Effects of habitat composition and landscape structure on worker foraging distances of five bumblebee species. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1890/15-0546/abstract

Boyd Robin J. et al. , (2022), Inferring trends in pollinator distributions across the Neotropics from publicly available data remains challenging despite mobilization efforts. Diversity and Distributions, 28, 1404-1415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13551

Garratt Michael P.D. et al. , (2023), Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators. Ecological Applications, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2743

Doublet Vincent et al. , (2022), Increasing flower species richness in agricultural landscapes alters insect pollinator networks: implications for bee health and competition. Ecology and Evolution, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9442

Other Publications

UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (2023) The UK PoMS Annual report 2022. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

 

https://ukpoms.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf/PoMS-AR-2022-EN-Final.pdf

UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (2022). Pan-trap survey data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre.

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/2c43ba3c-d821-442c-989b-754451d72091

UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (2022). Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2020 version 2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/13aed7ac-334f-4bb7-b476-4f1c3da45a13