Margaret Christine Stanley (born 1975) is a New Zealand ecologist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in understanding and mitigating human environmental impacts, including the impacts of urban intensification and of introduced pests and weeds.
Margaret Stanley | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 48–49) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Monash University, University of Otago |
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| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
Academic career edit
Born in 1975,[1] Stanley grew up in Dunedin,[2] and studied zoology at the University of Otago, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree with first-class honours in 1997.[3] She completed a PhD titled Factors influencing fruit choice and seed dispersal by the silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) at Monash University.[1] Stanley joined the faculty of the Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland in 2007, rising to full professor in 2023.[4][2]
Stanley is interested in understanding how humans impact on natural environments, and how those impacts can be reduced or mitigated.[5] Stanley has written about the lack of long-term monitoring of New Zealand biodiversity, particularly insect populations,[6] and on research that showed hundreds of pet birds escaped each year, leading to suggestions that pet parrot sales should be banned to protect native birds.[7] Stanley has also talked about the importance of pest control of hedgehog and wallaby populations, and the need for nationwide cat control.[8][9][10][11] Stanley also works on weeds, collaborating with cartoonist Pepper Raccoon to produce science communication aimed at improving public understanding of the need to weed control and prevention.[12][13][14] She also advises on how people can increase the biodiversity in their backyard through planting, and how better planting in private and public places can create 'sponge cities' to avoid flooding.[15][16][17]
Selected works edit
- Josie A Galbraith; Jacqueline R Beggs; Darryl N Jones; Margaret C Stanley (4 May 2015). "Supplementary feeding restructures urban bird communities". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112 (20): E2648-57. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112E2648G. doi:10.1073/PNAS.1501489112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4443315. PMID 25941361. Wikidata Q35622191.
- Williams, Peter A.; Wiser, Susan; Clarkson, Bev; Stanley, Margaret C. (2007). "New Zealand's historically rare terrestrial ecosystems set in a physical and physiognomic framework". New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 31 (2): 119–128. ISSN 0110-6465. JSTOR 24058138.
- Josie A. Galbraith; Jacqueline R. Beggs; Darryl N. Jones; Ellery J. McNaughton; Cheryl R. Krull; Margaret C. Stanley (December 2014). "Risks and drivers of wild bird feeding in urban areas of New Zealand". Biological Conservation. 180: 64–74. doi:10.1016/J.BIOCON.2014.09.038. ISSN 0006-3207. Wikidata Q59599803.
- A R Zangerl; Margaret C. Stanley; M R Berenbaum (31 January 2008). "Selection for chemical trait remixing in an invasive weed after reassociation with a coevolved specialist". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105 (12): 4547–4552. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.4547Z. doi:10.1073/PNAS.0710280105. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2290761. PMID 18238901. Wikidata Q36534327.
- Josie A. Galbraith; Darryl N. Jones; Jacqueline R. Beggs; Katharina Parry; Margaret C. Stanley (2 August 2017). "Urban Bird Feeders Dominated by a Few Species and Individuals". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 5. doi:10.3389/FEVO.2017.00081. ISSN 2296-701X. Wikidata Q111158955.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Ward, Darren; Harris, RJ; Stanley, Margaret (January 2005). "Human-mediated range expansion of Argentine ants Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in New Zealand". Sociobiology. 45 (2): 401–407.
- Christine S Sheppard; Bruce R Burns; Margaret C Stanley (26 April 2014). "Predicting plant invasions under climate change: are species distribution models validated by field trials?". Global Change Biology. 20 (9): 2800–2814. doi:10.1111/GCB.12531. ISSN 1354-1013. PMID 24446429. Wikidata Q30738690.
References edit
- ^ a b Stanley, Margaret Christine 1975- (2001). Factors influencing fruit choice and seed dispersal by the silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) (PhD thesis). Monash University.
{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b University of Auckland. "Academic profile: Professor Margaret Stanley". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Graduate search". University of Otago. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "Inaugural Lecture Series - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
- ^ "Margaret Stanley". The Conversation. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Margaret Stanley: Guest writer". The Spinoff. 18 August 2017.
- ^ "Escaped pet parrots threaten New Zealand's vulnerable native birds – why a ban is the best solution". RNZ. 26 January 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Controlling Wallaby Populations w/ Associate Professor Margaret Stanley". 95bFM. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Media". Stanley Research Group. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Hoyle, Craig (12 February 2023). "Forget 'cute Mrs Tiggy-Winkle': Hedgehogs are much-loved, but they wreak havoc". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Environmentalists call on Government to establish nationwide cat control laws". Newshub. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ metadigital (9 February 2022). "Aotearoa's weed problem". Bioprotection Aotearoa. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Stanley, Margaret; Raccoon, Pepper (9 February 2022). "Aotearoa's weed problem". The Spinoff. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Jungle warfare". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Rykers, Ellen (23 March 2023). "How to boost your backyard biodiversity". The Spinoff. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Stanley, Margaret (17 February 2023). "A concrete plan to make cities more resilient to flooding". Newsroom. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Jamie Morton (20 March 2024). "Analysis: The three biggest lessons from Auckland's historic floods". NZ Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
External links edit
- Expert feature: Ants!, Stanley interviewed on Radio New Zealand programme Afternoons, 15 October 2018