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Dr Mike Dodd is a research fellow in ecology at The Open University.

 

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Will the cold winter check the spread north of global warming species?Creative Commons Image ru_24_real under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

04 March 2009

As global warming species have been gradually spreading north, Mike Dodd asks if they'll now be vulnerable to a cold winter?  Read more : Will the cold winter check the spread north of global warming species?

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Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipmentJupiter Images

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

01 July 2008

Mike Dodd reports on the latest techniques being used to check for biodiversity in waterside meadows  Read more : Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

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Making an orchid family treeJupiter Images

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

11 December 2007

Imagine there were 19,000 relatives in your family - and you had to make a family tree showing how they were all related…  Read more : Making an orchid family tree

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Coast at Greenwich: Q and A Featuring: audio, BBC

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University), Professor Mark Horton (Guest), Rebecca Cook (The Open University), Alex Midlen (Guest)

20 November 2007

As part of a day of Coast-themed events at the Maritime Museum, we held a roundtable discussion on the issues facing those who live and...  Read more : Coast at Greenwich: Q and A

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Careful what you put your Harlequins inCreative Commons Image ru_24_real under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

03 October 2007

Some Harlequin ladybirds try to enact the great escape.  Read more : Careful what you put your Harlequins in

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Allotments: the Russian wayCreative Commons Image ru_24_real under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

07 September 2007

Mike Dodd heads East and is impressed with Russian allotments.  Read more : Allotments: the Russian way

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Orchids, motorbikes or a compromise?Creative Commons Image ru_24_real under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

11 August 2007

Rare orchids and displaced bikers vie for priority on wasteland in Milton Keynes.  Read more : Orchids, motorbikes or a compromise?

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Something lurking in the mistCreative Commons Image ru_24_real under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

04 June 2007

Mike Dodd visits the site of Dungeness nuclear power station where Common Dodder is running riot.  Read more : Something lurking in the mist

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Ever seen a hairy snail?Creative Commons Image ru_24_real under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

31 May 2007

Mike Dodd finds a hairy snail and a link between Ireland and Milton Keynes.  Read more : Ever seen a hairy snail?

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Japanese fishing industryCreative Commons Image ru_24_real under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Dr Mike Dodd (The Open University)

21 March 2007

Pollution and the Japanese fishing industry.  Read more : Japanese fishing industry

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Worthington, Jenny; Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Mike; Greenwood, Richard; McConway, Kevin and Skelton, Peter (2011). Evolution MegaLab: a case study in citizen science methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Early View).

Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Michael; McConway, Kevin; Worthington, Jennifer; Skelton, Peter; Anton, Christian; Bossdorf, Oliver; Baur, Bruno; Schilthuizen, Menno; Fontaine, Benoît; Sattmann, Helmut; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Correira, Maria; Oliveira, Cristina; Pokryszko, Beata; Ozgo, Malgorzata; Stalažs, Arturs; Gill, Eoin; Rammul, Üllar; Sólymos, Péter; Féher, Soltan and Juan, Xavier (2011). Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale
evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS ONE, 6(4), e18927.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Mike; McConway, Kevin; Worthington, Jenny; Skelton, Peter; Anton, Christian; Bossdorf, Oliver; Baur, Bruno; Schilthuizen, Menno; Fontaine, Benoît; Sattmann, Helmut; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Correia, Maria; Oliveira, Cristina; Pokryszko, Beata; Ożgo, Małgorzata; Stalažs, Arturs; Gill, Eoin; Rammul, Üllar; Sólymos, Péter; Féher, Zoltan and Juan, Xavier (2011). Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS ONE, 6(4), e18927.

Gowing, David; Wallace, Hilary; Prosser, Mike and Dodd, Michael (2008). Nutrient Analysis of the Oxford Floodplain Meadows. Research Report by The Open University for Black and Veatch/Environment Agency.

Fréville, Hélène; McConway, Kevin; Dodd, Mike and Silvertown, Jonathan (2007). Prediction of extinction in plants: interaction of extrinsic threats and life history traits. Ecology, 88(10), pp. 2662–2672.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike; Gowing, David; Lawson, Clare and McConway, Kevin (2006). Phylogeny and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87(7, Sup), S39-S49.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Gowing, David; Dodd, Mike; Fay, Michael F.; Joseph, Jeffrey A. and Dolphin, Konrad (2006). Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1582), pp. 39–44.

Crawley, M.J.; Johnston, A.E.; Silvertown, J.; Dodd, M.; de Mazancourt, C.; Heard, M.S.; Henman, D.F. and Edwards, G.R. (2005). Determinants of species richness in the Park Grass experiment. American Naturalist, 165(2), pp. 179–192.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike and Gowing, David (2001). Phylogeny and the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Journal of Ecology, 89(3), pp. 428–435.

Dodd, Mike E. and Silvertown, Jonathan (2000). Size-specific fecundity and the influence of lifetime size variation upon effective population size in Abies balsamea. Heredity, 85(6), pp. 604–609.

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Will the cold winter check the spread north of global warming species?

Comment posted by sp7267

02 Nov 2010

FYI, I have seen kingfishers in a small South Manchester brook this year - for the first time ever. There's not even any fish! Simon Read more : Will the cold winter check the spread north of global warming species?

Ever seen a hairy snail?

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27 Mar 2009

mike dodd has started a thread discussing Ever seen a hairy snail?. Read more : Ever seen a hairy snail?

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Dr Mike Dodd is a research fellow in ecology at The Open University. He is also a keen naturalist: "Nearly all biologists nowadays only study one organism or even just a few molecules, but I have a plea that people should be aware of their whole environment."

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