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Emily Alderton

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PhD student in Aquatic Ecology, UCL

I have recently completed my PhD on "ghost ponds" in the Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), University College London. My research focuses on the historic propagule banks buried within former ponds (in-filled for agricultural land consolidation), and the role they might play in the resurrection of these lost habitats. I previously completed my MSc in Aquatic Science at UCL, and my thesis was on the diet of Eurasian otters at a UK upland lake.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD student in Aquatic Ecology, UCL
  • 2011–2012
    MSc Aquatic Science, UCL
  • 2008–2011
    BSc Zoology, UCL

Education

  • 2017 
    UCL, PhD
  • 2012 
    UCL, MSc
  • 2011 
    UCL, BSc

Publications

  • 2017
    Buried alive: Aquatic plants survive in ‘ghost ponds’ under agricultural fields, Biological Conservation
  • 2015
    The diet of the Malham Tarn otters; Understanding the impacts of a native predator, Field Studies
  • 2013
    Managing Britain’s Ponds – conservation lessons from a Norfolk farm., British Wildlife