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Email Dan Blumgart at Rothamsted Research<\/a><\/p>\n I am an ecologist mainly interested in insect ecology and conservation. I finished an MSc in Applied Ecology at the University of Exeter in 2014. My final project there was a study on the effectiveness of hedgerow trees as an agri-environmental scheme option, measuring moth diversity and abundance and also looking into the effect that isolation from woodland has on broadleaf-feeding moth abundance. Since then, I have spent two years out of academia. I worked in Madagascar for a year with a small NGO designing and running a conservation, research and education project on a small semi-forested island, looking mainly at birds, lemurs and reptiles. While I was there I initiated a survey of the parasitoid wasps of the island, working with the Natural History Museum, London. Since returning to the UK I have been working with the NHM to identify and DNA-extract these specimens, describe the ones that are new to science and add the mounted specimens to the collection.<\/p>\n Research Project<\/p>\n Working with the Rothamsted Insect Survey, I will be looking at the factors that have caused the significant decline in moth populations over the last 40 years and I will be investigating how these trends can be reversed. A large part of my project will involve studying the effectiveness of extended field margins and wildflower strips in increasing moth abundance and diversity in the agricultural landscape. Using a randomised block design I will establish different treatment types of field margins and monitor how moth abundance and diversity changes over the 3 years. I will also look into moth food-plant and nectar preferences, measuring larval abundance as well as nocturnal flower visitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PhD: Investigating the mechanisms behind moth declines: plants, landscape, pollution and climate Bawden Building Rothamsted Research Email Dan Blumgart at Rothamsted Research I am an ecologist mainly interested in insect ecology and conservation. I finished an MSc in Applied Ecology at the University of Exeter in 2014. My final project there was a study on… Read More »Dan Blumgart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/files\/2017\/01\/Dan-Blumgart-400-x-400-px.jpg?fit=400%2C400","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kFzn-ny","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}