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Dr Joseph Tzanopoulos   DR JOSEPH TZANOPOULOS

Visiting Research Fellow

Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation
DICE, University of Kent
Tel: +44 (0)122 782 3146
Email: j.tzanopoulos@kent.ac.uk

Dr Joseph Tzanopoulos
Career

1988 - 1995

1995 - 1995

1996 - 2001

1999 - 2001

2001 - 2002

2002 - 2006

2006 - 2010

BSc – MSc Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

Agronomist, Greek Agricultural Insurance Governmental Agency

PhD Imperial College London

Teaching Assistant (statistics), Imperial College London

Research Assistant, Imperial College London

Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Research Fellow, CAER, University of Reading

Lecturer, DICE, University of Kent

Research Interests
  • Plant ecology, succession and degradation models, agro-ecology
  • Biodiversity conservation using a landscape approach that integrates ecological and socio-economic aspects in order to monitor and assess the impacts of policy scenarios and other human activities on biodiversity and networks of protected areas
  • Reconciling biodiversity conservation and sustainable development on rural areas
  • Impacts of land-use changes on mountain and island ecosystems
  • Scenario analysis, land-use modelling, GIS
  • Analysis of pollination networks – network analysis


CÆR Projects
  • SCALES: SCALES: Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales
  • SOILSERVICE: Conflicting demands of land use, soil biodiversity and the sustainable delivery of ecosystem goods and services in Europe
  • RELU nutrition: Implications of a nutrition driven food policy for land use and the rural environment
Other Projects
  • BioScene: Scenarios for reconciling biodiversity conservation with declining agricultural use in the mountains of Europe
  • SPIN: Spatial Indicators for Nature Conservation
Professional Memberships
  • International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE)
  • Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)
  • British Ecological Society (BES)
  • Greek Ecological Society
Publications to 2010

Antonios, D. Mazaris, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Karin Johst, Giannis Matsinos, John D. Pantis (2009) Assessing the relative importance of conservation measures applied on sea turtles: comparison of measures focusing on nesting success and hatching recruitment success Amphibia-Reptilia 30, 221-231

Kallimanis A.S., Petanidou T., Tzanopoulos J., Pantis J.D., Sgardelis S.P. (2009) Do plant–pollinator interaction networks result from stochastic procedures? Ecological modelling 220, 684-693

Antonios, D. Mazaris, Joseph, Tzanopoulos, Athanasios, S. Kallimanis, Yiannis, G. Matsinos, Stephanos, P., Sgardelis, and John, D. Pantis. (2008). The contribution of common and rare species to plant species richness patterns: the effect of habitat type and size of sampling unit Biodiversity and Conservation 17, 3567-3577

Theodora Petanidou, Athanasios S. Kallimanis, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Stefanos P. Sgardelis, John D. Pantis. (2008). Long-term observation of a pollination network: fluctuation in species and interactions, relative invariance of network structure, and implications for estimates of specialization Ecology Letters 11, 564-575

Kallimanis, Athanasios; Mazaris, Antonios; Tzanopoulos, Joseph; Halley, John; Pantis, John; Sgardelis, Stefanos (2008) How does habitat diversity affect the species area relationship? Global Ecology and Biogeography 17, 532-538

Zomeni M, Tzanopoulos J, Pantis JD. (2008) Historical analysis of landscape change using remote sensing techniques: an explanatory tool for agricultural transformation in Greek rural areas Landscape and Urban Planning 86, 38-46

Jiao, J., Tzanopoulos, J., Xofis, P., Mitchley, J. (2008). Factors affecting the distribution of vegetation types on abandoned cropland in the Hilly-gullied Loess Plateau region in China Pedosphere 18, 24-33

Mitchley, J., Tzanopoulos, J., and Xofis, P. (2008). Scenarios research: a tool for participatory landscape planning in Europe's mountain regions In Boltiziar, M (ed) Implementation of Landscape Ecology in New and Changing Conditions. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Problems of Landscape Ecology Research. Stara Lesna, Slovakia. Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Tzanopoulos, Joseph; Mitchley, Jonathan & Pantis, John (2007). Vegetation dynamics in abandoned crop fields on a Mediterranean island: Development of succession model and estimation of disturbance thresholds. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 120, 370–376

Haddock, J., Tzanopoulos, J., Mitchley, J., Fraser, R. (2007). A method for evaluating alternative landscape management scenarios in relation to the biodiversity conservation of habitats. Ecological Economics 61, 277-283

Jiao, J., Tzanopoulos, J., Xofis, P., Bai, W., Ma, X., Mitchley J. (2007). Can the study of natural vegetation succession assist in the control of soil erosion on abandoned croplands on the Loess Plateau, China? Restoration Ecology 15, 391–399

Ivana Jongepierova, Jonathan Mitchley, Joseph Tzanopoulos. (2007) A field experiment to recreate species rich hay meadows using regional seed mixtures. Biological Conservation 139, 297-305

Jonathan Mitchley, Joseph Tzanopoulos and Tamsin Cooper (2007). Reconciling the Conservation of Biodiversity with Declining Agricultural Use in the Mountains of Europe: The Challenge of Interdisciplinary Research In Price, MF (ed) Mountain Research and Management: Integrated Approaches . Earthscan Publication Ltd

Mitchley, J., Price, M., Tzanopoulos, J. (2006). Integrated Futures for Europe’s Mountain Regions: Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation and Human Livelihoods Journal of Mountain Science 3, 276-286

Tzanopoulos, Joseph; Mitchley, Jonathan & Pantis, John (2005). Modelling the effects of human activity on the vegetation of a northeast Mediterranean island Applied Vegetation Science 8, 27-38

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