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Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment
About SCENE
Research
SCENE is an ideal base for research offering outstanding laboratory accomodation and access to a superb range of freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems.
Teaching
Training over 600 students a year, SCENE is preparing our graduates to be the environmental problem solvers of the future
Links
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
Redstart
Photographed by Paul Jerem
(www.pauljerem.com)
The Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE) is the foremost field station for research and teaching in ecology and environmental sciences in Scotland.
SCENE is run by the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine within the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences of the University of Glasgow.
Situated amidst the spectacular natural beauty of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, SCENE is ideally positioned to support cutting edge research. Currently, research is funded from a broad range of sources, including the UK and European research councils. Our undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes provide practical and theoretical field-based teaching to the highest standards for the next generation of ecologists and environmental scientists.
We are currently expanding the capacity of SCENE with a £7 M development of new research and teaching facilities. To find out more about this work click here.
News & Publications
News
Updated 28th August 2013
Media interest in a new paper on the largest fish that ever lived from researchers at SCENE, University of Edinburgh and Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta
Articles in The Guardian and National Geographic
Updated 21st June 2013
International workshop: Thermal Eco-physiology. This workshop explored the central role of body temperature for understanding behaviour, physiology, and tolerance to environmental conditions. - Thermal Workshop 21June13 (pdf)
Updated 19th June 2013
Visiting student course from Michigan State University, Lansing, USA. Students and staff from environmental and international relations programs came to learn about the Scottish environment and its protection.
Updated 1st June 2013
The new SCENE Teaching Building is really taking shape. Follow all the progress on our Facebook Page!
Updated 26th May 2013
Breeding activities of woodland birds! After the coldest UK spring on record the long term monitoring of our hole nesting bird study system has recorded the latest ever start to hatching as SCENE, with the first Blue Tit chicks finally hatching 3 weeks later than in 2012. Meanwhile our ong-distance migrants like Wood warbler, Redstart, Pied Flycatcher and Tree Pipit can be heard or watched singing and displaying throughout SCENE’s magnificant oak woodlands.
Updated 1st May 2013
Congratulations to Travis Van Leeuwen (2nd year PhD student and part of SCENE’s EU funded IBIS programme) on an award of $60K over 3 years from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to support his work on life history pathways in the Brown/Sea trout Salmo trutta.
Travis Van Leeuwin, Jessica Fordyce and Professor Colin Adams (Director of SCENE) have recently been awarded £6K by the Atlantic Salmon Trust to support population genetic analysis of co-occurring brown and sea trout populations in Scotland and Ireland.
Oliver Hooker has been successful in applying for access to NERC stable isotopes analysis facilities to enable him to examine long-term dietary specialisations amongst individuals in sympatric Brown trout exploiting different foraging niches in large lakes.
James Barrie has been awarded access to the NERC stable isotope facility at SUERC to examine long-term differences in foraging behavior in polymorphic populations of the European eel.
Publications
Jenjan, H., Mesquita, F., Huntingford, F. & Adams, C. 2013 Respiratory function in common carp with different stress coping styles: a hidden cost of personality traits? Animal Behaviour, in press.
Siwertsson, A., Knudsen, R., Adams, C. E., Præbel, K. & Amundsen, P. A. 2013 Parallel and non‐parallel morphological divergence among foraging specialists in European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). Ecology and Evolution, in press.
Hume, J., Adams, C., Bean, C. & Maitland, P. 2013 Evidence of a recent decline in river lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis parasitism of a nationally rare whitefish Coregonus lavaretus: is there a diamond in the ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus? Journal of Fish Biology, in press.
Adams, C.E., Griffin, L., Benzies, E., Aherne, D., Bean, C., Dodd, J., Fairlamb, D. & Maitland, P. 2013 Short range dispersal by a rare, obligate freshwater crustacean Triops cancriformis (Bosc). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, in press.
Hume, J., Adams, C., Mable, B. & Bean, C. 2013 Sneak male mating tactics between lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) exhibiting alternative life‐history strategies. Journal of Fish Biology, in press.
Hume, J. B., Adams, C. E., Mable, B. & Bean, C. 2013 Post‐zygotic hybrid viability in sympatric species pairs: a case study from European lampreys. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108, 378-383.
Adams, C. E., Godfrey, J. D., Dodd, J. A. & Maitland, P. S. 2013 Is proximity to the North Atlantic Drift and the Continental Shelf Current sustaining freshwater European eel populations in western Scotland? Freshwater Biology 58, 1-9.