Hosted by the University of Aberdeen:
- Using eDNA to assess how types of temperate and tropical marine habitat restoration (seagrass/mangroves) and protection (MPAs) provides essential fish habitat (EFH). PI: Beth Scott.
- The impact of environmental change on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of symbiotic sponge communities. PI: Cecile Gubry-Rangin.
- The causes and consequences of parental care in fish. PI: Catherine Sheard.
Hosted by the University of the Highlands and Islands:
- Mitigating harmful algal blooms with modified clay. PI: Keith Davidson.
- Will feral pigs aid or threaten landscape scale nature recovery in Scotland? Understanding their genetics, ecology, and public perceptions. PI: Cristian Navarro.
- Tracing patterns of vessel movement – understanding secondary spread of fouling marine invasive non-native species in Scotland. PI: Rebecca Giesler.
- Understanding Changes in Migration Timing in Scotland’s Atlantic Salmon. PI: Victoria Pritchard.
- Seabirds as sentinel species: assessing the risk of nest incorporation of marine plastic debris. PI: Neil James.
- Understanding sea louse larval biology and natural abundance to inform modelling and assist management of the Scottish salmon industry. PI: Kim Last.
Hosted by the University of Stirling:
- Using biomineralisation responses to predict molluscan species-specific pathways for resilience to climate change. PI: Susan Fitzer.
Hosted by Edinburgh Napier University:
- Assessing impacts of ivermectin, a key agricultural parasiticide, on freshwater organisms in a multi-stressor context. PI: Rob Briers.
Hosted by the University of St Andrews:
- Presence and drivers of geographic variation in delphinid vocal signals. PI: Vincent Janik.
- Carbon-scapes: Understanding carbon connectivity across the land-ocean continuum using a seascape approach. PI: Craig Smeaton.
- A deep dive into the anthropogenic threats facing endangered freshwater dolphins in the highly managed Indus River of Pakistan. PI: Gill Braulik.
- Developing an efficient and accessible “data-to-decision” pipeline for remotely sensed biodiversity monitoring data. PI: Chris Sutherland.
- Rocky shore biodiversity: Separating the effects of anthropogenic impacts from natural variation and climate change impacts. PI: Andrew Blight.
Hosted by the University of Strathclyde:
- Spatial modelling of mackerel migrations and zonal attachment. PI: Dougie Speirs.
- Marine match-mismatch: the ecological consequences of climate driven changes in migration and reproductive phenology in the sea. PI: Jack Laverick.