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Dr. Michael Gormally B.Sc., Ph.D.

Contact Details

Title Senior Lecturer
Address Dept. of Microbiology
Room Sf4, Arts/Science Building
Nui Galway
Telephone: Ext. 3334
Email:
ei.yawlagiun@yllamrog.ekim

 

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Peer Reviewed Journals

GORMALLY, MJ,FAIRLEY, JS (1982) 'FOOD OF OTTERS LUTRA-LUTRA IN A FRESH-WATER LOUGH AND AN ADJACENT BRACKISH LOUGH IN THE WEST OF IRELAND'. Journal Of Zoology, 197 :313-321. [Details]
Aughney, T and Gormally, M (2002) 'The nature conservation of lowland farm habitats on REPS and non-REPS farms in County Galway and the use of traditional farm methods for habitat management under the rural Environment Protection Scheme REPS'. Tearmann: Irish Journal of Agri-Environmental Research, 2 :1-14. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Fahy, O.L. and Gormally, M.J. (2002) 'Ground beetle Coleoptera: Carabidae and plant communities of Atlantic blanket bog in Connemara'. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeography Society, 26 :83-105. [Details]
Ní Bhriain, B., Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Gormally, M. (2002) 'Conservation implications of land use practices on the plant and carabid beetle communities of two turloughs in Co. Galway, Ireland'. Biological Conservation, 105 :81-92. [DOI] [Details]
O'Sullivan, C M and Gormally, M J (2002) 'A comparison of ground beetle Carabidae: Coleoptera communities in an organic and conventional potato crop'. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 20 :99-110. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Gormally, M.J. and Knutson, L. (2003) 'A second record of Renocera stroblii Hendel Diptera: Sciomyzidae in Ireland with a key to the Irish species of the genus'. Irish Naturalists Journal, 27 (6):232-233. [Details]
Ryder, C., Mc Donnell, R.J., Gormally, M.J. and Knutson, L. (2003) 'Colobaea distincta Meigen : a sciomyzid Diptera new to Ireland with a key to the Irish species of the genus'. Irish Naturalists Journal, 27 . [Details]
Moran, J, Gormally, M J and Sheehy Skeffington, M (2003) 'Records of Panagaeus crux-major Linnaeus and Pterostichus aterrimus Herbst recorded on turloughs in Counties Clare and Mayo'. Irish Naturalists Journal, 27 (8):309-311. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R J, Gormally, M J and Knutson, L V. (2003) 'Galba truncatula (Müller), the liver fluke snail: confirmed as alternate host of Pherbellia schoenherri schoenherri (Fallén) in the wild (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)'. Dipterist Digest, 10 :69-71. [Details]
Poole, A, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M (2003) 'The flora and carabid beetle fauna of a mature and regenerating semi-natural oak woodland in south-east Ireland'. Forest Ecology and Management, 177 :207-220. [DOI] [Details]
Mullen, K, Fahy, O and Gormally, M (2003) 'Ground flora and associated arthropod communities of forest road edges in Connemara, Ireland'. Biodiversity and Conservation, 12 :87-101. [Details]
Ní Bhriain, B., Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2003) 'Changes in land use practices at two turloughs, on the east Burren limestones, Co. Galway, with reference to nature conservation'. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 103B :169-176. [Details]
Ryder, C, Moran, J, Mc Donnell, R J and Gormally, M J. (2003) 'Conservation implications of grazing practices on the plant and dipteran communities of a turlough in Co. Mayo, Ireland'. Biodiversity and Conservation, 14 :187-204. [Details]
O' Connor, Á, Bradish, S, Reed, T, Moran, J, Regan, E, Visser, M, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2004) 'A comparison of the efficacy of pond-net and box sampling methods in turloughs - Irish ephemeral aquatic systems'. Hydrobiologia, 524 :133-144. [Details]
Coroi, M., Sheehy Skeffington M., Giller P., Smith C. Gormally M., and O'Donovan (2004) 'Vegetation diversity and stand structure in streamside forests in the south of Ireland'. Forest Ecology and Management, 202 :39-57. [DOI] [Details]
Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Gormally, M. (2005) 'Turloughs, west of Ireland. Seven web pages in Cultbase, Cultural Landscape Database for Europe'. Atlantic central, . Available Online [Details]
Mc Donnell, R J, Mulkeen, C J and Gormally, M J. (2005) 'Sexual dimorphism and the impact of temperature on the pupal and adult stages of Sepedon spinipes spinipes Scopoli Diptera: Sciomyzidae , a potential biological control agent of fascioliasis'. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 115 :291-301. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Knutson, L., Vala, J.C., Abercrombie, J., Henry, P.Y. and Gormally (2005) 'Direct evidence of predation by aquatic, predatory Sciomyzidae Diptera: Acalyptrata on freshwater snails from natural populations'. Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 141 :49-56. [Details]
Coroi, M., Sheehy Skeffington, M., Giller, P., Gormally, M., Smith, C., O'Donovan, G. (2006) 'Using GIS in the mapping and analysis of landscape and vegetation patterns along streams in southern Ireland'. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 106B (3):287-300. [Details]
Sheehy Skeffington, M. Moran J., O Connor Á., Regan E., Coxon, C. E., Scott, N. E., and Gormally, M. (2006) 'Turloughs - Ireland's unique wetland habitat'. Biological Conservation, 133 (3):265-290. [Details]
Williams, C., Doherty, O. and Gormally, M. (2006) 'Gasterostueus aculeatus L. and Pungitius pungitius L. - two species of stickleback from turloughs in Cos Mayo and Roscommon'. Irish Naturalists Journal, 28 (7):276-279. [Details]
Visser, M, Regan, E, Moran, J, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2006) 'The rise and fall of turlough typologies: a call for a continuum concept'. Wetlands, 26 (3):745-764. [Details]
Williams C.D., Mc Donnell R.J., Maher C., Mulkeen C..J. and Gormally M..J. (2007) 'Faunistic data for the genus Tetanocera (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) in the west of Ireland'. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society, 31 :268-295. [Details]
Moran, J, regan, E, Visser, M, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M (2007) 'Past and present land management of 12 turloughs in the west of Ireland'. Tearmann (Irish journal of agri-environmental research), 6 :83-102. [Details]
Visser, M, Moran, J, Regan, E, Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M. (2007) 'The Irish agri-environment: How turlough users and non-users view converging EU agendas of Natura 2000 and CAP'. Land Use Policy, 24 :362-373. [DOI] [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Paine, T.D. and Gormally, M.J. (2007) 'An investigation of trail-following behaviour in the malacophagous larvae of the sciomyzid flies Sepedon spinipes spinipes and Dictya montana'. Journal of Insect Behaviour, 20 (3):367-376. [DOI] [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Paine, T.D., Orth, R.E. and Gormally, M.J. (2007) 'Life history and biocontrol potential of Dictya montana Steyskal, 1954 Sciomyzidae , a snail-killing fly'. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 83 (2):101-109. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J. and Gormally, M.J. (2007) 'Thermal effects on the egg stage of four sciomyzids with reference to phenology and biocontrol potential'. Journal of Applied Entomology, 131 (2):65-70. [Details]
Regan, E.C., Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Gormally, M.J. (2007) 'Wetland plant communities of turloughs in the west of Ireland in relation to environmental factors'. Aquatic Botany, 87 :22-30. [DOI] [Details]
Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Gormally M. (2007) 'Turloughs: a mosaic of biodiversity and management systems unique to Ireland'. Acta Carsologica, 36 (2):217-222. [Details]
Moran, J, Sheehy Skeffington, M and Gormally, M. (2008) 'The influence of hydrological regime and grazing management on the plant communities of a karst wetland (Skealoghan turlough) in Ireland'. Applied Vegetation Science, 11 :13-17. [DOI] [Details]
Staunton J., Williams C.D., Mc Donnell R.J., Maher C., Knutson L. and Gormally M.J. (2008) 'Pherbellia (Oxytaenia) stackelbergi Elberg, 1965 (Dip: Sciomyzidae) new to the British Isles, with comments on generic and sub-generic placement'. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 120 (5):173-177. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Hansen, A., Paine, T.D. and Gormally, M.J. (2008) 'A record of the invasive slug Veronicella cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1840) in California'. The Veliger, 50 (2):81-82. [Details]
Moran, J, Kelly, S, Sheehy Skeffington, M and Gormally, M. (2008) 'The use of GIS techniques to quantify the hydrological regime of a karst wetland (Skealoghan turlough) in Ireland'. Applied Vegetation Science, 11 :23-34. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Paine, T.D. and Gormally, M.J. (2009) 'Slugs: A Guide to the Invasive and Native Fauna of California'. University of California Press, . [Details]
Williams, C, Moran, J, Doherty, O, Mc Donnell, R, Gormally, M, Knutson, L and Vala, J-C (2009) 'Factors affecting Sciomyzidae across a transect at Skealoghan turlough (Co. Mayo, Ireland)'. Aquatic Ecology, 43 :117-133. [DOI] [Details]
Williams C.D. and Gormally M.J. (2009) 'Spatio-temporal and environmental gradient effects on the mollusc communities in a unique wetland ecotone (turloughs)'. Wetlands, 29 :854-865. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Paine, T.D., Stouthmaner, R., Gormally, M.J. and Harwood, J.D. (2009) 'Molecular and morphological evidence for the occurrence of two new species of invasive slugs in Kentucky, Arion intermedius Normand, 1852, and Arion hortensis d’Audebard de Férussac, 1819 (Arionidae: Stylommatophora)'. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science, 69 (2):117-123. [Details]
Williams, B, Walls, S, Walsh, M, Gormally, M and Bleasdale, A (2009) 'Proposing an efficient indicator of grazer distribution on heterogenous hill vegetation'. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 7 (4):341-358. [Details]
Williams C.D., Sheahan J. and Gormally M.J (2009) 'Hydrology and management of turloughs affect marsh fly (Sciomyzidae: Diptera) communities'. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2 :270-283. [DOI] [Details]
Lindsay, W.M., Mc Donnell, R.J., Williams, C.D., Knutson, L and Gormally, M.J. (2009) 'Biology of the snail-killing fly Ilione albiseta (Scopoli, 1763) (Diptera; Sciomyzidae)'. Studia dipterologica, 16 :245-307. [Details]
Lally, H, Higgins, T, Colleran, E and Gormally, M (2009) 'A new Irish wilderness? Trophic status and conservation potential of cutaway peatland lakes in Ireland'. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol, 30 (5):722-724. [Details]
Williams, B, Walsh, M, Gormally, M, Walls, S and Sheahan, J (2010) 'Resource selection by hill sheep: direct flock observations versus GPS tracking'. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 8 (4):279-299. [Details]
Williams C.D., Gormally M.J. and Knutson L.V. (2010) 'Very high population estimates and limited movement of snail-killing flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) on an Irish turlough (temporary lake)'. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 110B (B):81-94. [DOI] [Details]
Kindermann, G and Gormally, M.J. (2010) 'Vehicle damage caused by recreational use of coastal dune systems in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) on the west coast of Ireland'. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 14 :173-188. [Details]
Mc Donnell, R.J., Williams, C.D., Shine, O, Knutson, L & Gormally, M (2010) 'Faunistics data for Sciomyzidae (Diptera) in the west of Ireland with distribution maps, species accounts and comments on community structure'. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society, 34 :150-218. [Details]
Sullivan, C.A., Sheehy Skeffington, M, Gormally, M.J and Finn, J.A. (2010) 'The ecological status of grasslands on lowland farmlands in western Ireland and implications for grassland classification and nature value assessment'. Biological Conservation, 143 :1529-1539. [DOI] [Details]
Moran, J, Kelly, S, Sheehy Skeffington, M and Gormally, M. 'Temporal and spatial variation in the hydrological regime of Skealoghan turlough, Ireland: Production of a diverse vegetation mosaic'. Journal of Applied Vegetation Science, . [Details]
Moran, J, Sheehy Skeffington, M and Gormally, M. 'The influence of the hydrological regime, soils and management on the plant community composition and species richness of Skealoghan turlough, Ireland'. Journal of Applied Vegetation Science, . [Details]
                           

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GORMALLY, MJ et al. (1997) Ivermectin and the environment. IRISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. Other Item [Details]
             

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