Professional summary

Francesca is an ecological modeller using citizen science data to understand patterns of biodiversity change. She uses statistical models to derive trends in species distribution from biological records data and investigate the impacts of environmental change. Francesca is also a NERC Knowledge Exchange fellow, working with partners in conservation NGOs, government agencies and Environmental Records Centres to make quantitative methods for producing biodiversity assessments available to a non-technical audience .

Francesca's training is in quantitative ecology but she has an interest in interdisciplinary conservation and some experience in qualitative and semi-quantitative methods such as surveys and interviews. Francesca believes science should be transparent and accessible to all and therefore she uses open source tools and reproducible workflows (see her GitHub profile).

Web tools and apps

https://stateofnature.org.uk/data/

 

Selected publications

Mancini Francesca et al. , (2023), Invertebrate biodiversity continues to decline in cropland. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0897

Boyd Robin J. et al. , (2023), An operational workflow for producing periodic estimates of species occupancy at national scales. Biological Reviews, 98, 1492-1508, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12961

Cooke Rob et al. , (2023), Protected areas support more species than unprotected areas in Great Britain, but lose them equally rapidly. Biological Conservation, 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109884

Mancini Francesca et al. , (2022), Co-designing an Indicator of Habitat Connectivity for England. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.892987

Greenop Arran et al. , (2021), Patterns of invertebrate functional diversity highlight the vulnerability of ecosystem services over a 45-year period. Current Biology, 31, 4627-4634, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.080

Mancini F. et al. , (2020), Detecting landscape scale consequences of insecticide use on invertebrate communities. Advances in Ecological Research, 63, 93-126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.07.001

Mancini Francesca et al. , (2019), Agrochemicals in the wild: identifying links between pesticide use and declines of non-target organisms. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2019.07.003