Dr Pippa Gillingham
- u_pgillingham at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- Associate Professor of Biogeography
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Biography
I am a terrestrial biogeographer/ecologist working in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at Bournemouth University. Over the past 13 years I have worked on several terrestrial ecological survey projects, mainly in the UK but also overseas, for various organisations. In general, my interests could be summed up as 'where species are found and why'.
As a Principal Academic I am involved in the communication, teaching and assessment of climate change and its impacts, ecology and sustainability at all levels. I also lead BU’s first year Geography field course, and teach on our international field course.
My main research expertise is in the environmental factors that affect the spatial distributions of species, how these are changing in response to climatic change, and how the existence of microclimates affect our predictions of the future. I can often be found in the field; during my PhD I studied the relative importance of microclimate and land use to Ground Beetles (Carabidae) using sites in the Dark Peak, near Snowdonia in Wales and the Trossachs in Scotland... I recently convened an international network of scientists working in the field of microclimate ecology, and am continuing my own research in this area.
I have a passion for Knowledge Exchange and maintain a network of collaborators from a wide range of environmental organisations, and like to involve students at all levels throughout my research. I am Head of Research for the Department, responsible for our submission to UoA 14, and Chair of the British Ecological Society's Climate Change Ecology Special Interest Group.
I currently co-supervise five PhD students, and have co-supervised seven PhD students who have successfully passed their viva examinations across topics within archaeology, palaeoecology, animal behaviour, plant/invertebrate community ecology and ecosystem services, and would be interested in hearing from potential students with interests aligned to my research.
moreResearch
I am currently working on the likely impacts of climate change on species, and how variation in microclimates might help species cope with and/or take advantage of climate change. I co-supervise five PhD students, one studying invasive fishes under climate change, another on the impact of removing barriers on fish movements, one studying how primates and other mammals are affected by the changes in microclimate associated with forest fragmentation, one studying the impact of climate change on the phenology of Salmon, and finally a student studying the factors affecting Osprey migration, and the success of an Osprey reintroduction project
Journal Articles
- Simmons, O.M., Britton, J.R., Gillingham, P.K., Nevoux, M., Riley, W.D., Rivot, E. and Gregory, S.D., 2022. Predicting how environmental conditions and smolt body length when entering the marine environment impact individual Atlantic salmon Salmo salar adult return rates. Journal of Fish Biology, 101 (2), 378-388.
- Marsh, C.D., Hill, R.A., Nowak, M.G., Hankinson, E., Abdullah, A., Gillingham, P. and Korstjens, A.H., 2022. Measuring and modelling microclimatic air temperature in a historically degraded tropical forest. International Journal of Biometeorology, 66 (6), 1283-1295.
- Shedden, A., Dunn, J.C., Martínez-Mota, R., Cristóbal-Azkárate, J., Gillingham, P.K., MacSwiney-González, C., Newton, A.C., Rodríguez-Luna, E. and Korstjens, A.H., 2022. Forest maturity has a stronger influence on the prevalence of spider monkeys than howler monkeys in an anthropogenically impacted rainforest landscape. Primates, 63 (3), 283-291.
- Dominguez Almela, V., Palmer, S.C.F., Andreou, D., Gillingham, P.K., Travis, J.M.J. and Britton, J.R., 2021. Predicting the influence of river network configuration, biological traits and habitat quality interactions on riverine fish invasions. Diversity and Distributions.
- Jeanneret, P., Gillingham, P. et al., 2021. An increase in food production in Europe could dramatically affect farmland biodiversity. Communications Earth and Environment, 2 (1).
- Dominguez Almela, V., Palmer, S.C.F., Andreou, D., Gillingham, P.K., Travis, J.M.J. and Britton, J.R., 2021. Predicting the outcomes of management strategies for controlling invasive river fishes using individual-based models. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58 (11), 2427-2440.
- Simmons, O.M., Gregory, S.D., Gillingham, P.K., Riley, W.D., Scott, L.J. and Britton, J.R., 2021. Biological and environmental influences on the migration phenology of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolts in a chalk stream in southern England. Freshwater Biology, 66 (8), 1581-1594.
- Williams, K.A., Slater, H.D., Gillingham, P. and Korstjens, A.H., 2021. Environmental Factors Are Stronger Predictors of Primate Species’ Distributions Than Basic Biological Traits. International Journal of Primatology, 42 (3), 404-425.
- Winch, K., Stafford, R., Gillingham, P., Thorsen, E. and Diaz, A., 2021. Diversifying environmental volunteers by engaging with online communities. People and Nature, 3 (1), 17-31.
- Simmons, O.M., Britton, J.R., Gillingham, P.K. and Gregory, S.D., 2020. Influence of environmental and biological factors on the overwinter growth rate of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar parr in a UK chalk stream. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 29 (4), 665-678.
- Dominguez Almela, V., Palmer, S.C.F., Gillingham, P.K., Travis, J.M.J. and Britton, J.R., 2020. Integrating an individual-based model with approximate Bayesian computation to predict the invasion of a freshwater fish provides insights into dispersal and range expansion dynamics. Biological Invasions, 22 (4), 1461-1480.
- Kearney, M.R., Gillingham, P.K., Bramer, I., Duffy, J.P. and Maclean, I.M.D., 2020. A method for computing hourly, historical, terrain-corrected microclimate anywhere on earth. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11 (1), 38-43.
- Gregory, S.D., Britton, J.R., Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2019. Atlantic salmon return rate increases with smolt length. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76 (6), 1702-1712.
- Pitt, J., Gillingham, P.K., Maltby, M., Stafford, R. and Stewart, J.R., 2019. Changing cultures, changing environments: A novel means of investigating the effects of introducing non-native species into past ecosystems. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 23, 1066-1075.
- Pedreschi, D., Cantarello, E., Diaz, A., Golicher, D., Korstjens, A.H., Gillingham, P., Hardouin, E.A., Stewart, J.R. et al., 2019. Challenging the European southern refugium hypothesis: Species-specific structures versus general patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation among small mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28 (2), 262-274.
- Carroll, T., Gillingham, P.K., Stafford, R., Bullock, J.M. and Diaz, A., 2018. Improving estimates of environmental change using multilevel regression models of Ellenberg indicator values. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (19), 9739-9750.
- Gosal, A.S., Newton, A.C. and Gillingham, P.K., 2018. Comparison of methods for a landscape-scale assessment of the cultural ecosystem services associated with different habitats. International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services and Management, 14 (1), 91-104.
- Suggitt, A.J., Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2017. Conducting robust ecological analyses with climate data. Oikos, 126 (11), 1533-1541.
- Ruiz-Navarro, A., Gillingham, P.K. and Britton, J.R., 2016. Predicting shifts in the climate space of freshwater fishes in Great Britain due to climate change. Biological Conservation, 203, 33-42.
- Pitt, J., Gillingham, P.K., Maltby, M. and Stewart, J.R., 2016. New perspectives on the ecology of early domestic fowl: An interdisciplinary approach. Journal of Archaeological Science, 74, 1-10.
- Lüscher, G., Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2016. Farmland biodiversity and agricultural management on 237 farms in 13 European and two African regions. Ecology, 97 (6), 1625.
- Fletcher, D.H., Gillingham, P.K., Britton, J.R., Blanchet, S. and Gozlan, R.E., 2016. Predicting global invasion risks: A management tool to prevent future introductions. Scientific Reports, 6.
- Ruiz-Navarro, A., Gillingham, P.K. and Britton, J.R., 2016. Shifts in the climate space of temperate cyprinid fishes due to climate change are coupled with altered body sizes and growth rates. Global Change Biology.
- Suggitt, A.J., Stewart, J.R., Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2015. A reply to ‘A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England: missing data’ (Tooley 2015). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
- Suggitt, A.J., Stewart, J.R., Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2015. A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England. Veget Hist Archaeobot.
- Thomas, C.D. and Gillingham, P.K., 2015. The performance of Protected Areas for biodiversity under climate change. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
- Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2015. The effectiveness of protected areas in the conservation of species with changing geographical ranges. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
- Gillingham, P., Alison, J., Roy, D.B., Fox, R. and Thomas, C.D., 2014. High Abundances of Species in Protected Areas in Parts of their Geographic Distributions Colonized during a Recent Period of Climatic Change. Conservation Letters.
- Lüscher, G., Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2014. Strikingly high effect of geographic location on fauna and flora of European agricultural grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology.
- Gillingham, P.K., Huntley, B., Kunin, W.E. and Thomas, C.D., 2012. The effect of spatial resolution on projected responses to climate warming. Diversity and Distributions, 18 (10), 990-1000.
- Gillingham, P.K., Palmer, S.C.F., Huntley, B., Kunin, W.E., Chipperfield, J.D. and Thomas, C.D., 2012. The relative importance of climate and habitat in determining the distributions of species at different spatial scales: A case study with ground beetles in Great Britain. Ecography, 35 (9), 831-838.
- Thomas, C.D. et al., 2012. Protected areas facilitate species' range expansions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (35), 14063-14068.
- Suggitt, A.J., Gillingham, P.K., Hill, J.K., Huntley, B., Kunin, W.E., Roy, D.B. and Thomas, C.D., 2011. Habitat microclimates drive fine-scale variation in extreme temperatures. Oikos, 120 (1), 1-8.
Chapters
- Bramer, I., Hill, R.A., Korstjens, A.H., Gillingham, P.K. et al., 2018. Advances in Monitoring and Modelling Climate at Ecologically Relevant Scales. Advances in Ecological Research. 101-161.
Conferences
- Shedden, A., Solorzano, B., Gillingham, P., White, J. and Korstjens, A.H., 2016. Human disturbance, natural predation and hunting: effects on priamtes in Southern Mexico. In: Joint meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists 21-27 August 2016 Chicago, USA.
- Shedden, A., Gillingham, P. and Korstjens, A.H., 2014. The influence of vegetation type on howler and spider monkey distribution in the Uxpanapa valley, Mexico. In: 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society 11-16 August 2014 Hanoi, Vietnam.
- Shedden, A., Gillingham, P., Newton, A., Dunn, J., Cristobal-Azkarate, J., McSwiney, C., Rodriguez-Luna, E. and Korstjens, A.H., 2013. The influence of vegetation type on howler and spider monkey distribution Uxpanapa Valley area in Mexico. In: PSGB Winter Meeting 2013 11 December 2013 London.
Reports
- Stafford, R., Chamberlain, B., Clavey, L., Gillingham, P., McKain, S., Morecroft, M., Morrison-Bell, C. and Watts, O., 2021. Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change in the UK. https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/policy/nature-based-solutions/: British Ecological Society. Available from: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/policy/nature-based-solutions/.
- Gillingham, P., Stewart, J. and Binney, H., 2016. The historic peat record: Implications for the restoration of blanket bog. Natural England. Available from: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5155418650181632.
- Pinder, A., Andreou, D., Hardouin, E., Sana, S., Gillingham, P. and Gutmann-Roberts, C., 2016. Spawning Success and Population Structure of Shad (Alosa spp.) in the River Teme, 2015: with supplementary note on Sea Lamprey spawning. BUG.
- Gillingham, P., Pinder, A.C., Diaz, A. and Stillman, R., 2015. A desk review of the ecology of heather beetle. Natural England. Available from: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/6386866406293504.
- Gillingham, P., Pinder, A.C., Diaz, A. and Stillman, R., 2015. Desk review of burning and other management options for the control for heather beetle (NEER009). Natural England. Available from: http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/4817807814426624.
- Gillingham, P., 2013. Implications of Climate Change for SSSIs and other Protected Areas. LWEC. Available from: http://www.lwec.org.uk/sites/default/files/Protected%20Areas.pdf.
Theses
- Gillingham, P., 2011. The relative importance of microclimate and land use to biodiversity. PhD Thesis. University of York.
PhD Students
- Daraporn Chairat, 2015. Systematic conservation planning in Thailand
- Aralisa Shedden-Gonzalez, 2016. Using primates for developing strategic conservation policies in Mexico
- Helen Slater, 2020. The importance of microclimate refuges for mammal responses to climate change and human disturbance
- Peter Davies
- Victoria Dominguez Almela, 2020. Predicting the invasiveness of alien fishes: modelling invasion dynamics to inform management programmes
- Olivia Simmons, 2021. Predicting the implications of changes in migration phenology for the conservation of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
- Arjan Gosal
- David Fletcher
- Helen Slater. The Importance of Micro-Climate Refuges for Mammal Responses to Climate Change & Human Disturbance
- Jacqueline Pitt
- Monika Knul. The project examines the dynamics of geographic ranges of both mammals that went extinct and those that survived during one of the most dramatic climatic changes in recent history: the Last Glacial Maximum up to the beginning of the Holocene. Furthermore it also explores changes in bio-geography in response to changes in climate between 60.000 and 8000 years ago. This comparative approach is likely to provide novel insights into the ways in which species respond to climate change and human presence e.g. the cause of mega faunal and Neanderthal extinction.
- Tadhg Carroll
Profile of Teaching PG
- Geographical Information Systems
Profile of Teaching UG
- Applied Geospatial Science
Grants
- Surveys of Six-spotted cranefly (Forestry Commission, 03 Jul 2017). In Progress
- Up scaling microclimate to macro-ecological importance for global conservation (Leverhulme Trust, 27 Feb 2017). Completed
- Predicting responses to climate warming of freshwater communities in temperate regions (CLIMACOMM) (Marie Curie, 01 Oct 2014). In Progress
- The historic peat record: A guide to restoration of blanket bog (Natural England, 01 Oct 2014). Completed
- Burning as a control for Heather Beetle (Natural England, 07 Oct 2013). Awarded
- Bioblitz (Royal Entomological Society, 01 Jun 2013). Awarded
- Palaeoecological evidence to inform identification of potential climate change refugia and areas for ecological restoration (Natural England, 04 Feb 2013). Awarded
- Terrestrial biodiversity Climate change impacts report card technical paper 4. Implications of Climate Change for SSSIs and other Protected Areas (Natural England, 01 Jul 2012). Awarded
Public Engagement & Outreach Activities
- Career Fair-Glenmoor and Winton Aacedemies (08 Oct 2015)
- Bournemouth School Career Fair (23 Oct 2014)
Conference Presentations
- Using Climate Data in Ecological Research, How Species Respond to Microclimates, 14 Sep 2016, UK Meteorological Office
Qualifications
- PhD in Ecology/Biogeography (2011)
Memberships
- British Ecological Society, Member (2006-), http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/
- Royal Entomological Society, Member (2006-),
Social Media Links
- Academia.edu, http://bournemouth.academia.edu/PippaGillingham
- Twitter, @GillinghamPippa