Staff Profile:Dr Amelia Hood

Name:

Dr Amelia Hood

Job Title:

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

I am interested in sustainable farming, and in win-wins for biodiversity and production in particular. I like conducting manipulative ecological experiments, and am especially fascinated by the weirdness of invertebrates.

My current research focuses on co-designing biodiversity interventions with arable farmers in the UK. I have worked in several other systems too, including oil palm agriculture, cassava agriculture, and tropical rainforest. My research to date has focussed on testing the interaction between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, quantifying ecological redundancy and resilience, and ants in general.

I have also worked in evidence synthesis at Conservation Evidence, which sparked an interest in the ways that important practices, such as sharing data, are not currently well incentivised. I designed an author-level metric (the data-index) with this in mind, and am a committee member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE).

Current Project:

SHOWCASE: Showcasing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity (EU H2020).

Research groups / Centres:

Centre for Agri-Environmental Research

Biodiversity, Crops and Agro-ecosystems Research Division

Publications:

Y

Jump to: 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017

Number of items: 13.

2022

• Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Agung Ketut Aryawan, A., Advento, A. D., Suberkah, W. R., Ashton‐Butt, A., Ps, S., Caliman, J.‐P., Naim, M., Foster, W. A. and Turner, E. C. (2022) A whole‐ecosystem method for experimentally suppressing ants on a small scale. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. ISSN 2041-210X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13774

2021

• Sutherland, W. J., Taylor, N. G., Aldridge, D. C., Martin, P., Rhodes, C., Shackelford, G., Beard, S., Belfield, H., Bladon, A. J., Brick, C., Christie, A. P., Dobson, A. P., Downey, H., Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Hua, F., Hughes, A. C., Jarvis, R. M., MacFarlane, D., Morgan, W. H., Mupepele, A.-C., Marciniak, S. J., Nelson, C., Ó hÉigeartaigh, S., Rojas, C. R., Sainsbury, K. A., Smith, R. K., Sundaram, L. S., Thornton, A., Watkins, J., White, T. B., Willott, K. and Petrovan, S. O. (2021) A solution scan of societal options to reduce transmission and spread of respiratory viruses: SARS-CoV-2 as a case study. Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 3 (2). pp. 84-90. ISSN 2588-9338 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobb.2021.08.003
• Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603 and Sutherland, W. J. (2021) The data-index: an author-level metric that values impactful data and incentivises data sharing. Ecology and Evolution, 11 (21). pp. 14344-14350. ISSN 2045-7758 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8126
• Shackelford, G. E., Martin, P. A., Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Christie, A. P., Kulinskaya, E. and Sutherland, W. J. (2021) Dynamic meta-analysis: a method of using global evidence for local decision making. BMC Biology, 19 (1). 33. ISSN 1741-7007 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00974-w

2020

• Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Advento, A. D., Stone, J., Fayle, T. M., Fairnie, A. L. M., Waters, H. S., Foster, W. A., Snaddon, J. L., Ps, S., Caliman, J.-P., Naim, M. and Turner, E. C. (2020) Removing understory vegetation in oil palm agroforestry reduces ground-foraging ant abundance but not species richness. Basic and Applied Ecology, 48. pp. 26-36. ISSN 1439-1791 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.07.002
• Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Pashkevich, M. D., Dahlsjö, C. A. L., Advento, A. D., Agung Ketut Aryawan, A., Caliman, J.‐P., Naim, M., Head, J. J. and Turner, E. C. (2020) Termite mounds house a diversity of taxa in oil palm plantations irrespective of understory management. Biotropica, 52 (2). pp. 345-350. ISSN 1744-7429 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12754
• Luke, S. H., Advento, A. D., Agung Ketut Aryawan, A., Nugroho Adhy, D., Ashton-Butt, A., Barclay, H., Prajna Dewi, J., Drewer, J., Dumbrell, A. J., Eycott, A. E., Harianja, M. F., Hinsch, J. K., Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Kurniawan, C., Kurz, D. J., Mann, D. J., Matthews Nicholass, K. J., Naim, M., Pashkevich, M. D., Prescott, G. W., Ps, S., Purnomo, D., Purwoko, R. R., Putra, S., Rambe, T. D. S., Spear, D. M., Tan, D. J. X., Tao, H.-H., Tarigan, R. S., Wahyuningsih, R., Waters, H. S., Harto Widodo, R., Woodham, C. R., Caliman, J.-P., Slade, E. M., Snaddon, J. L., Foster, W. A. and Turner, E. C. (2020) Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably: large-scale experiments within the biodiversity and ecosystem function in tropical agriculture (BEFTA) programme. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2 (75). ISSN 2624-893X doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00075

2019

• Eycott, A. E., Advento, A. D., Waters, H. S., Luke, S. H., Agang Ketut Aryawan, A., Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Naim, M., Ps, S., Purnomo, P. D., Rambe, T. D. S., Suhardi, S., Tarigan, R. S., Wahyuningsih, R., Harto Widodo, R., Caliman, J.-P., Snaddon, J. L., Foster, W. A. and Turner, E. C. (2019) Resilience of ecological functions to drought in an oil palm agroecosystem. Environmental Research Communications, 1. 101004. ISSN 2515-7620 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab48da
• Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Aryawan, A. A. K., Advento, A. D., Puromo, D., Wahyuningsih, R., Luke, S. H., Ps, S., Snaddon, J. L., Foster, W. A., Caliman, J.-P., Turner, E. C. and Naim, M. (2019) Understory vegetation in oil palm plantations promotes leopard cat activity, but does not affect rats or rat damage. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2 (51). ISSN 2624-893X doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00051
• Padfield, R., Hansen, S., Davies, Z. G., Ehrensperger, A., Slade, E. M., Evers, S., Papargyropoulou, E., Bessou, C., Abdullah, N., Page, S., Ancrenaz, M., Aplin, P., Balqis Dzulkafli, S., Barclay, H., Chellaiah, D., Choudhary, S., Conway, S., Cook, S., Copeland, A., Campos-Arceiz, A., Deere, N. J., Drew, S., Gilvear, D., Gray, R., Haller, T., Hood, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Huat, L. K., Huynh, N., Kangayatkarasu, N., Pin Koh, L., Kumaran Kolandai, S., Ah Hee Lim, R., Loong Yeong, K., Lucey, J. M., Luke, S. H., Mitchell, S. L., Montefrio, M. J., Mullin, K., Nainar, A., Nekaris, K. A.-I., Nijman, V., Nunes, M., Nurhidayu, S., O'Reilly, P., Puan, C. L., Ruppert, N., Salim, H., Schouten, G., Tallontire, A., Smith, T. E. L., Tao, H.-H., Tham, M. H., Varkkey, H., Wadey, J., Yule, C. M., Azhar, B., Sayok, A. K., Vairappan, C., Bicknell, J. E. and Struebig, M. J. (2019) Co-producing a research agenda for sustainable palm oil. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2 (13). ISSN 2624-893X doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00013
• Redmond, C. M., Auga, J., Gewa, B., Segar, S. T., Miller, S. E., Molem, K., Weiblen, G. D., Butterill, P. T., Maiyah, G., Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Volf, M., Jorge, L. R., Basset, Y. and Novotný, V. (2019) High specialization and limited structural change in plant‐herbivore networks along a successional chronosequence in tropical montane forest. Ecography, 42 (1). pp. 162-172. ISSN 0906-7590 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03849

2018

• Ashton-Butt, A., Aryawan, A. A. K., Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Naim, M., Purnomo, D., Suhardi, , Wahyuningsih, R., Willcock, S., Poppy, G. M., Caliman, J.-P., Turner, E. C., Foster, W. A., Peh, K. S.-H. and Snaddon, J. L. (2018) Understory vegetation in oil palm plantations benefits soil biodiversity and decomposition rates. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 1. 10. ISSN 2624-893X doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2018.00010

2017

• Plowman, N. S., Hood, A. S. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-0603, Moses, J., Redmond, C., Novotny, V., Klimes, P. and Fayle, T. M. (2017) Network reorganization and breakdown of an ant–plant protection mutualism with elevation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 (1850). ISSN 0962-8452 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2564

This list was generated on Mon Jun 27 12:28:48 2022 UTC.