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Personal profile
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
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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.
1/04/19 → 31/03/20
Project: Research
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Brexit_Enhanced need for policy advice
Barnes, A., Atterton, J., Thomson, S. & McCracken, D.
1/10/18 → 31/03/19
Project: Research
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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
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Sefari Spark_Developing guidelines and policies for sustainable grassland systems
Cole, L., Roberts, D., March, M., Watson, C., McCracken, D. & Maynard, C.
20/02/20 → 31/01/21
Project: Research
Research Output
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Collateral benefits of targeted supplementary feeding on demography and growth rate of a threatened population
Fenn, S., Bignal, E. M., Trask, A. E., McCracken, DI., Monaghan, P. & Reid, J. M., 1 Nov 2020, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 57, 11, p. 2212-2221 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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/Policy Brief › Commissioned report › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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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/Policy Brief › Commissioned report › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Data from: Estimating demographic contributions to effective population size in an age-structured wild population experiencing environmental and demographic stochasticity
Trask, A. E. (Creator), Bignal, E. M. (Creator), McCracken, D. (Contributor), Piertney, S. B. (Creator) & Reid, J. M. (Creator), Dryad, 1 Jan 2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.68kk0, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.68kk0
Dataset
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Data from: Estimating demographic contributions to effective population size in an age-structured wild population experiencing environmental and demographic stochasticity
Trask, A. E. (Creator), Bignal, E. M. (Creator), McCracken, D. (Contributor), Piertney, S. B. (Creator) & Reid, J. M. (Creator), Dryad, 31 May 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.68kk0, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.68kk0
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Activities
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Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (External organisation)
Davy McCracken (Chair)
2019 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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Scottish Government (External organisation)
Davy McCracken (Member)
2019 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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FAO (External organisation)
Davy McCracken (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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Scottish Natural Heritage (External organisation)
Davy McCracken (Chair)
2016 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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Rewilding the uplands: balancing production and conservation
Davy McCracken (Speaker)
5 Jan 2021Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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