Dr Amelia Hood

Email:
a.s.hood@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
100
Job title:
Postdoctoral Research Assistant

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).

Research projects

Current Project:

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

Centre for Agri-Environmental Research

Biodiversity, Crops and Agro-ecosystems Research Division

Publications

Todman, L. ORCID: 0000-0003-1232-294X , Bush, A. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 (2023) Small Data for big insights in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution ISSN: 0169-5347

Xing, S. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Dial, R. , Fayle, T. (2022) Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world's tallest tropical forest. Ecology and Evolution , 12 (8). ISSN: 2045-7758 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9158
Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Agung Ketut Aryawan, A. , Advento, A. , Suberkah, W. , Ashton‐Butt, A. , Ps, S. , Caliman, J. , Naim, M. , Foster, W. , Turner, E. (2022) A whole‐ecosystem method for experimentally suppressing ants on a small scale. Methods in Ecology and Evolution , 13 (4). pp. 852-865. ISSN: 2041-210X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13774

Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 and Sutherland, W. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8126
Sutherland, W. , Taylor, N. , Aldridge, D. , Martin, P. , Rhodes, C. , Shackelford, G. , Beard, S. , Belfield, H. , Bladon, A. , Brick, C. , Christie, A. , Dobson, A. , Downey, H. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Hua, F. , Hughes, A. , Jarvis, R. , MacFarlane, D. , Morgan, W. , Mupepele, A. , Marciniak, S. , Nelson, C. , Ó hÉigeartaigh, S. , Rojas, C. , Sainsbury, K. , Smith, R. , Sundaram, L. , Thornton, A. , Watkins, J. , White, T. , Willott, K. , Petrovan, S. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jobb.2021.08.003
Shackelford, G. , Martin, P. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Christie, A. , Kulinskaya, E. , Sutherland, W. (2021) Dynamic meta-analysis: a method of using global evidence for local decision making. BMC Biology , 19 (1). ISSN: 1741-7007 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00974-w

Luke, S. , Advento, A. , Agung Ketut Aryawan, A. , Nugroho Adhy, D. , Ashton-Butt, A. , Barclay, H. , Prajna Dewi, J. , Drewer, J. , Dumbrell, A. , Eycott, A. , Harianja, M. , Hinsch, J. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Kurniawan, C. , Kurz, D. , Mann, D. , Matthews Nicholass, K. , Naim, M. , Pashkevich, M. , Prescott, G. , Ps, S. , Purnomo, D. , Purwoko, R. , Putra, S. , Rambe, T. , Spear, D. , Tan, D. , Tao, H. , Tarigan, R. , Wahyuningsih, R. , Waters, H. , Harto Widodo, R. , Woodham, C. , Caliman, J. , Slade, E. , Snaddon, J. , Foster, W. , Turner, E. (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://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00075
Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Advento, A. , Stone, J. , Fayle, T. , Fairnie, A. , Waters, H. , Foster, W. , Snaddon, J. , Ps, S. , Caliman, J. , Naim, M. , Turner, E. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.07.002
Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Pashkevich, M. , Dahlsjö, C. , Advento, A. , Agung Ketut Aryawan, A. , Caliman, J. , Naim, M. , Head, J. , Turner, E. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12754

Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Aryawan, A. , Advento, A. , Puromo, D. , Wahyuningsih, R. , Luke, S. , Ps, S. , Snaddon, J. , Foster, W. , Caliman, J. , Turner, E. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00051
Redmond, C. , Auga, J. , Gewa, B. , Segar, S. , Miller, S. , Molem, K. , Weiblen, G. , Butterill, P. , Maiyah, G. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Volf, M. , Jorge, L. , Basset, Y. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03849
Padfield, R. , Hansen, S. , Davies, Z. , Ehrensperger, A. , Slade, E. , 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. , Drew, S. , Gilvear, D. , Gray, R. , Haller, T. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Huat, L. , Huynh, N. , Kangayatkarasu, N. , Pin Koh, L. , Kumaran Kolandai, S. , Ah Hee Lim, R. , Loong Yeong, K. , Lucey, J. , Luke, S. , Mitchell, S. , Montefrio, M. , Mullin, K. , Nainar, A. , Nekaris, K. , Nijman, V. , Nunes, M. , Nurhidayu, S. , O'Reilly, P. , Puan, C. , Ruppert, N. , Salim, H. , Schouten, G. , Tallontire, A. , Smith, T. , Tao, H. , Tham, M. , Varkkey, H. , Wadey, J. , Yule, C. , Azhar, B. , Sayok, A. , Vairappan, C. , Bicknell, J. , Struebig, M. (2019) Co-producing a research agenda for sustainable palm oil. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change , 2 (13). ISSN: 2624-893X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00013
Eycott, A. , Advento, A. , Waters, H. , Luke, S. , Agang Ketut Aryawan, A. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Naim, M. , Ps, S. , Purnomo, P. , Rambe, T. , Suhardi, S. , Tarigan, R. , Wahyuningsih, R. , Harto Widodo, R. , Caliman, J. , Snaddon, J. , Foster, W. , Turner, E. (2019) Resilience of ecological functions to drought in an oil palm agroecosystem. Environmental Research Communications , 1 ISSN: 2515-7620 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab48da

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

Plowman, N. , Hood, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-0603 , Moses, J. , Redmond, C. , Novotny, V. , Klimes, P. , Fayle, T. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2564

Dr Amelia Hood

Areas of interest

Research projects

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Publications

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