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dr. louise firth

Contact details

Zoology,                                                                                                                         
Ryan Institute,
School of Natural Sciences,
NUI Galway     
Phone: 353 (0)91 493744;   Fax: 353 (0)91 525005 
Email: louise.firthnuigalway.ie 

Education

PhD (Marine Ecology) University College Dublin, 2007
BSc (Hons - Zoology) University College Dublin, 2003, First class.

Biography

Postdoctoral researcher: School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, 2009-2011
Postdoctoral researcher: Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, 2007-2008
Postdoctoral researcher: Swire Institute for Marine Science, University of Hong Kong, 2007

Research interests

I am a benthic marine ecologist with interests in both rocky shore and soft sediment intertidal systems. My main research focuses on the distribution patterns and biotic interactions of marine organisms and their responses to environmental change.

• Community ecology
• Environmental change
• Urban ecology
  
• Ecological engineering
  

Current projects

2009-2013: THESEUS - Innovative technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate ( www.theseusproject.eu). Funded by EU-FP7.
 
2009-2012: URBANE - Urban Research on Biodiversity on Artificial and Natural coastal Environments - enhancing biodiversity by sensitive design ( www.urbaneproject.org). Funded by Esmée Fairbairn.

2010-2013: EURONADS - Phenology of key speices in rocky intertidal habitats: patellid limpets in changing world. Funded by the Climate Change Consortium for Wales (C3W) and the Biosciences, Environment and Agriculture Allicance (BEAA).

2011-2014: Artificial defence structures as surrogate habitats for natural rocky shores: giving nature a helping hand . In collaboration with Aberystwyth University (Pippa Moore) and Marine Ecological Solutions (Liz Morris & Harry Goudge). Funded by Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship, Welsh Assembly Government.

Students

Alison Evans, Aberystwyth University, 2011-2014 (P. Moore - main supervisor)

Publications

Knights AM, Firth LB, Walters K (2012) Interactions between multiple recruitment drivers: post-settlement predation mortality and flow-mediated recruitment. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35096. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035096

Firth LB, Hawkins SJ (2011) Global change in marine ecosystems: patterns, processes and interactions with regional and local scale impacts. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 400: 1-6

Firth LB, Knights AM, Bell SS (2011). Air temperature and winter mortality: implications for the persistence of the invasive mussel, Perna viridis in the intertidal zone of the south-eastern United States. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 400: 250-256

Firth LB, Crowe TP (2010) Competition, habitat-suitability and the coexistence of key species on temperate rocky shores. Oecologia 162:163-174

Firth LB, Williams GA (2009) The influence of multiple environmental stressors on Cellana toreuma during summer monsoon season in Hong Kong. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 375:70-75

Firth LB, Crowe TP, Moore P, Thompson RC, Hawkins SJ (2009). Predicting impacts of climate-induced range     expansion: an experimental framework and a test involving key grazers on temperate rocky shores. Global Change Biology 15:1413-1422

Firth LB, Crowe TP (2008) Large-scale coexistence and small-scale segregation of key species on rocky shores. Hydrobiologia 614:233-241

Editing

I edited a special volume of the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology on "global change in marine ecosystems"

The articles can be accessed by this link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00220981/400

    

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