Marcus Collier
@marcus_collier
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Associate Professor of Sustainability Science in @TCD_NatSci. PI of @NovelEco #ERCCoG award & @ConnectingNBS. Research: #NatureBasedSolutions & #NovelEcosystems
Dublin, Ireland
Joined August 2009
Great weather for research on drystone wall ecology. Here, with two recently graduated students working as excellent research assistants, Órla R. Fitzgerald and Evelyn Sweeney, we are collecting some very preliminary data and testing methods.
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Opinion: We are lecturers in @tcddublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
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Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
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Our latest 5 in 5 flora videos; this time we look at Ireland's Temperate Rainforest Huge thanks to Dr. Peter Moonlight. @tcddublin @TCD_NatSci.
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Next generation of forests will need to be diverse and resilient to multiple threats
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De-risking the sector is a priority as challenges become increasingly complex
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RT @mapalljohn: Delighted to see our paper "Lines in the Landscape" published. Thanks to @MikePeacock86 for organising a great workshop f….
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A daisy with a doctorate? Frank McNally on the enrolment of ragwort in the rewilded lawns of Trinity College
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Who knows how ragwort will evolve with the benefit of a few years in university? It might lose the latter part of its name, Jacobaea vulgaris, for a start
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RT @PaN_BES: 🐝 New Research - Implementing the European Union Biodiversity Strategy: Interlinked challenges and a potential way forward ➡️….
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RT @tcddublin: A new nationwide citizen science project from @TrinityMed1 is calling on volunteers this autumn to help fight a growing glob….
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RT @PaN_BES: 🏙️ New Research: Giving space back to nature in cities? A multi-scenario analysis of the acceptability of urban rewilding amon….
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RT @erleellis: #ESA2025 Ecologists!🐸🌎🌐.Put People in the Paradigm! with @jacquelyngill @charlescmann @shunkaha3 .8AM Tomorrow (Wed 8/13).ht….
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RT @wildflower_hour: This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap….
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RT @thepostdoctoral: Melissa Pineda Pinto - The University of Melbourne - Here she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow looking at nove….
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Melissa Pineda Pinto
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RT @NovelEco: Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marc….
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Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...
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Only days before submitting her thesis, my PhD student Natalia just had her 2nd @NovelEco paper published. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities' is open access: #onehealth #novelecosystems
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Mapping the hidden black gold that is peat soil
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The maps we use have profound implications for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from our land sector
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RT @DubLoony: @marcus_collier Terrific project. Could be extended to protect the hedgerows that escaped taming around canals, the industria….
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Rewilding can take many forms. An effort to seed a revival of #hedgerows in #Dublin city
dublininquirer.com
“We're going to develop different urban trial hedgerows,” says Sophie von Maltzan. “The edible hedgerow, and the not-so-fast-growing hedgerow, and the thorn-free hedge.”
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