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Simon M Smart
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Summary
I have 29 years’ experience in the recording, analysis, interpretation and statistical modelling of ecological change in temperate ecosystems with a particular focus on vascular plants and forest ecosystems.
Biodiversity Conservation Biology Ecology Plant Science Statistics
Work details
Ecologist/senior scientist
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
April 1996
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I have 29 years’ experience in the recording, analysis, interpretation and statistical modelling of ecological change in temperate ecosystems with a particular focus on vascular plants and forest ecosystems. I have led a range of projects investigating the causes and consequences of large-scale ecosystem change. These include leading the analysis of vegetation change for Countryside Surveys 2000 and 2007; GANE (searching for large-scale signals of the effects of atmospheric N deposition on terrestrial plant communities); GB Woodland Change and Signal Attribution (partitioning national-scale temporal change in woodland soils and species composition among competing driving forces); UKREATE Work Package leader (Developing models for detecting the interacting impacts of climate change, management and pollutant deposition on terrestrial plant communities and soils). I also instigated and continue to manage the development of the MultiMOVE package of realized niche models for British plant species and designed and co-wrote the MAVIS software program for assignment of vegetation to the National Vegetation Classification (http://www.ceh.ac.uk/products/software/cehsoftware-mavis.htm). The software is widely used in university teaching and professional consultancy and has been downloaded 2232 times since 1st Jan 2016.