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Rob Marrs

Em P Rob Marrs
DSc FCIEEM, CEcol, FRSB

Emeritus Bulley Professor of Applied Plant Biology/Honorary Senior Research Fellow
School of Environmental Sciences

Research

Research Interest 1

Restoration ecology and in situ conservation; development of management techniques and theoretical approaches to study vegetation dynamics for plant community conservation; predicting impact of management on multi-species interactions; study of heathland and moorland habitats and their interactions with weed species (bracken and Molinia); effects of soils on heath and moorland development.

Research grants

Vegetation change in long-term experiments in the British uplands

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

January 2019 - June 2022

URBAN GreenUP - New Strategy for Re-Naturing Cities through Nature-Based Solutions

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

June 2017 - May 2023

Royal Society China Royal Fellowship.

ROYAL SOCIETY

December 2002 - December 2003

Research into management of problem exotic species.

ENGLISH NATURE

October 2000 - September 2002

Uplands Assessment Unit.

MINISTRY AGRIC/FISHERIES/FOOD

December 1997 - March 2002

Why are some species more vulnerable to environmental change than others? Passerines as a model taxon.

UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY

October 2008 - March 2013

Ecosystem resistance and resilience: measuring ecological processes in applied situations.

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

July 2004

Modelling temporal change in canopy composition and ground vegetation in British woodlands: the implications for conservation.

ENGLISH NATURE

February 2002 - March 2005

Landscape scale synergies between agri-environment schemes and protected sites

NATURAL ENGLAND (UK)

October 2013 - September 2016

Implementing moorland restoration after bracken control: technology transfer.

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (UK)

April 2004 - March 2007

Targeted Monitoring of Atmospheric Pollution and Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity

UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY

October 2005

Assessing the resilience of ecosystem service delivery: Can the Earth bounce back?

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2009 - June 2009

Changes in soil chemistry on managed and unmanaged heathland.

ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS (UK)

November 2001 - December 2002

Integrated bracken control and vegetation restoration: ongoing assessment and model development.

MINISTRY AGRIC/FISHERIES/FOOD

April 1999 - March 2004

Assessing the impact of Heather beetle.

MACAULAY LAND USE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (UK)

November 2001 - April 2002

Genetic diversity of heather.

DAPHNE JACKSON MEMORIAL F/SHIPS TRUST (UK)

September 1999 - August 2001

Fire management to maintain biodiversity and mitigate economic loss (FIREMAN)

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2009 - June 2013

DEFRA contract - Demonstration moors in England and Wales.

HEATHER TRUST

January 2002 - December 2006

CASE Top-Up: Is there biological ratioanale for the Framework Species approach to land restoration?

MILLENNIUM SEED BANK PROJECT (UK)

October 2009 - March 2013