Davy McCracken

Prof

Head of Integrated Land Management, Integrated Land Management, Hill & Mountain Research Centre

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5057-0448

Emaildavy.mccracken@sruc.ac.uk
Websitehttp://www.sruc.ac.uk/dmccracken

Auchincruive Estate, SAC Consulting, JF Niven Building
KA6 5HW Ayr
United Kingdom
Hill & Mountain Research Centre, Kirkton Farm
FK20 8RU Crianlarich
United Kingdom
SRUC Riverside Campus
KA8 0SX Ayr
United Kingdom
SRUC Barony Campus, Parkgate
DG1 3NE Dumfries
United Kingdom

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Personal profile

After completing my PhD on the feeding ecology of the red-billed chough in 1990, I first worked on an investigation into the relationships between moorland vegetation and upland invertebrates at the University of Newcastle.

I then moved to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) where I helped highlight the nature conservation importance of High Nature Value (HNV) farming systems throughout Europe.

I joined SRUC in 1995 and input to a wide variety of national and international projects which aim not only to assess the relationships between farming systems and farmland biodiversity but to also highlight the likely implications of agri-environment and wider Common Agricultural Policy reform.

I took on the role of Head of SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre in 2013. Much of the Centre’s research is focused around SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre Research farms, near Crianlarich, which we are developing to be a platform for agricultural, environmental and agro-forestry research and demonstration.

I took on the role of Head of the Department of Integrated Land Management in SRUC’s South & West Faculty in 2019. This Department brings together research, education and consultancy expertise with an aspiration of ensuring that land-based sector students – irrespective of the primary focus of their qualification – will obtain a much better understanding of the constraints and opportunities facing other land use sectors.

At a wider European level, I am involved in a range of research and demonstration projects investigating the economic, social and environmental resilience of upland livestock systems and seeking to understand the trade-offs associated with changes to those systems.

https://www.sruc.ac.uk/dmccracken

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Projects

1 Curtailed
3 Active
5 Finished

RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management

Wall, E., Smith, S., Nicoll, L., Parker, J., Robertson, D., Davidson, R., Donbavand, J., Anderson, C., Roehe, R., Harrison, B., Purcell, L., Duthie, C., Gunn, G., Pritchard, T., Jones, S., Bagnall, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Archibald, I., Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K., Edwards, T., Buckingham, S., March, M., Broadbent, C., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Wishart, H., Griffiths, B., Fox, N., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S., Banos, G., Henry, M., Watson, C., Dickinson, J., Topp, K., Burnett, F., Kyle, J., Denholm, S., Dewhurst, R., Lawson, D., McCubbin, I., Dwyer, C., Holland, J., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Coffey, M., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M. & Smith, L.

RESAS

1/04/19 → 31/03/20

Project: Research

Brexit_Enhanced need for policy advice

Barnes, A., Atterton, J., Thomson, S. & McCracken, D.

1/10/18 → 31/03/19

Project: Research

Livestock's role in food system resilience in remote, upland regions

McCracken, D., Shrestha, S., Thomson, S., Holland, J., Morgan-Davies, C., Barnes, A. & McLaren, A.

1/11/17 → 31/10/21

Project: Research

Low-Input Farming and Territories - Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming

Barnes, A., Toma, L., Shrestha, S., Ferreira, J., Thompson, B., McCracken, D. & Latto, D.

1/05/18 → 30/04/22

Project: Research

Research Output

69 Article
11 Chapter
5 Commissioned report
5 Abstract
7 More

Biodiversity and the livestock sector: Guidelines for quantitative assessment: Version 1

FAO, 22 Jun 2020, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 142 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Open Access

Back to the future: rethinking the socioecological systems underlying high nature value farmlands

Lomba, Â., Moreira, F., Klimek, S., Jongman, R., Sullivan, C., Moran, J., Poux, X., Honrado, JP., Pinto-Correia, T., Plieninger, T. & McCracken, DI., 1 Feb 2020, In : Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 18, 1, p. 36-42 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

2 Citations (Scopus)

19 Downloads (Pure)

Detecting temporal changes in the extent of High Nature Value farmlands: the case-study of Entre-Douro-e-Minho Region, Portugal

Lomba, Â., Buchadas, A., Corbelle-Rico, E., Jongman, R. & McCracken, DI., Mar 2020, In : Landscape and Urban Planning. 195, 103726.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Understanding farmer uptake of measures that support biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

Brown, C., Kovacs, E., Zinngrebe, Y., Albizua, A., Galanaki, A., Grammatikopoulou, I., Herzon, I., Marquardt, D., McCracken, DI., Olsson, J. & Villamayor-Tomas, S., 3 Jul 2019, Wallingford, UK: EKLIPSE Expert Working Group. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. 60 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Open Access