Dr Lucy Gilbert
- Senior Research Fellow (Ecology & Environmental Change)
Research interests
Publications
2025
Olsthoorn, F. et al. (2025) Woodland expansion and deer management shape tick abundance and Lyme disease hazard. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 6(1), e12403. (doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12403)
2024
Worton, A. J., Norman, R. A., Gilbert, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Porter, R. B.
(2024)
GIS-ODE: linking dynamic population models with GIS to predict pathogen vector abundance across a country under climate change scenarios.
Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 21(217),
20240004.
(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0004)
(PMID:39106949)
Quer, Susanna, Peirce, Graham John, Waggershauser, Cristian N. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2024)
Completing the picture: using vertebrae as well as otoliths in diet analysis reveals new preferred prey of great skuas.
Marine Biology, 171,
139.
(doi: 10.1007/s00227-024-04441-2)
2023
Plahe, Grace, Hall, Jessica L., Johnson, David, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Birtles, Richard
(2023)
Borrelia bavariensis in Questing Ixodes ricinus Ticks, United Kingdom.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 29(10),
pp. 2173-2175.
(doi: 10.3201/eid2910.230907)
(PMID:37735806)
(PMCID:PMC10521598)
Ribeiro, Rita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-3731, Eze, Jude I., Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Macrae, Alastair, Duncan, Andrew, Baughan, Jo, Gunn, George and Auty, Harriet
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-3780
(2023)
Linking human tick bite risk with tick abundance in the environment: a novel approach to quantify tick bite risk using orienteers in Scotland.
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 14(2),
102109.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102109)
2022
Gandy, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2579-4479, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357, Millins, Caroline
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X and Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2022)
No net effect of host density on tick-borne disease hazard due to opposing roles of vector amplification and pathogen dilution.
Ecology and Evolution, 12(9),
e9253.
(doi: 10.1002/ece3.9253)
(PMID:36091342)
(PMCID:PMC9448966)
2021
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2021)
Climate change impacts on Ixodes ricinus ticks in Scotland and implications for Lyme disease risk.
In: Nuttall, Pat (ed.)
Climate, Ticks and Disease.
Series: CABI Climate Change Series.
CABI, pp. 513-517.
ISBN 9781789249637
(doi: 10.1079/9781789249637.0074)
Gandy, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2579-4479, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357, Millins, Caroline
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X and Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2021)
Experimental evidence for opposing effects of high deer density on tick-borne disease pathogen prevalence and hazard.
Parasites and Vectors, 14(1),
509.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-05000-0)
(PMID:34593023)
(PMCID:PMC8485466)
Alaux, Pierre‐Louis, Zhang, Yaqian, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Johnson, David
(2021)
Can common mycorrhizal fungal networks be managed to enhance ecosystem functionality?
Plants, People, Planet, 3(5),
pp. 433-444.
(doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10178)
Olsthoorn, Fanny, Sprong, Hein, Fonville, Manoj, Rocchi, Mara, Medlock, Jolyon, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Ghazoul, Jaboury
(2021)
Occurrence of tick-borne pathogens in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from Wester Ross, Northwest Scotland.
Parasites and Vectors, 14(1),
430.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-04946-5)
(PMID:34446082)
(PMCID:PMC8393815)
Millins, C. et al. (2021) Emergence of Lyme disease on treeless islands in Scotland, UK. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(2), pp. 538-546. (doi: 10.3201/eid2702.203862) (PMID:33496237) (PMCID:PMC7853560)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2021)
The impacts of climate change on ticks and tick-borne disease risk.
Annual Review of Entomology, 66,
pp. 373-388.
(doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-052720-094533)
(PMID:33417823)
2020
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Brülisauer, Franz, Willoughby, Kim and Cousens, Chris
(2020)
Identifying environmental risk factors for louping Ill virus seroprevalence in sheep and the potential to inform wildlife management policy.
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7,
377.
(doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00377)
(PMID:32695800)
(PMCID:PMC7339109)
2019
Ribeiro, Rita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-3731, Eze, Jude I., Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Wint, G. R. William, Gunn, George, Macrae, Alastair, Medlock, Jolyon M. and Auty, Harriet
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-3780
(2019)
Using imperfect data in predictive mapping of vectors: a regional example of Ixodes ricinus distribution.
Parasites and Vectors, 12,
536.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3784-1)
(PMID:31727162)
(PMCID:PMC6857280)
Rineau, F. et al. (2019) Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments. Nature Climate Change, 9, pp. 809-816. (doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0609-3)
Church, Gabriella E., Furness, Robert W., Tyler, Glen, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Votier, Stephen C.
(2019)
Change in the North Sea ecosystem from the 1970s to the 2010s: great skua diets reflect changing forage fish, seabirds, and fisheries.
ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76(4),
pp. 925-937.
(doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsy165)
Li, Sen, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Vanwambeke, Sophie O., Yu, Jianjun, Purse, Bethan V. and Harrison, Paula A.
(2019)
Lyme disease risks in Europe under multiple uncertain drivers of change.
Environmental Health Perspectives, 127(6),
067010.
(doi: 10.1289/ehp4615)
(PMID:31232609)
(PMCID:PMC6792373)
Slater, Jennifer M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Johnson, David and Karley, Alison J.
(2019)
Limited effects of the maternal rearing environment on the behaviour and fitness of an insect herbivore and its natural enemy.
PLoS ONE, 14(1),
e0209965.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209965)
(PMID:30633753)
(PMCID:PMC6329576)
Al-Khafaji, A. M. et al. (2019) Multi-locus sequence typing of Ixodes ricinus and its symbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii across Europe reveals evidence of local co-cladogenesis in Scotland. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 10(1), pp. 52-62. (doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.08.016) (PMID:30197267)
2018
Millins, C. et al. (2018) Landscape structure affects the prevalence and distribution of a tick-borne zoonotic pathogen. Parasites and Vectors, 11, 621. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-3200-2) (PMID:30514350) (PMCID:PMC6278045)
2017
Calladine, John, Humphreys, Elizabeth M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Furness, Robert W., Robinson, Robert A., Fuller, Robert J., Littlewood, Nick A., Pakeman, Robin J., Ferguson, Johanne and Thompson, Charles
(2017)
Continuing influences of introduced hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus as a predator of wader (Charadrii) eggs four decades after their release on the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Biological Invasions, 19(7),
pp. 1981-1987.
(doi: 10.1007/s10530-017-1422-4)
Millins, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X, Gilbert, Lucy, Medlock, Jolyon, Hansford, Kayleigh, Thompson, Des B.A. and Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357
(2017)
Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1722),
20160123.
(doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0123)
(PMID:28438912)
(PMCID:PMC5413871)
Innocent, Giles T., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, Edward O., McLeod, James E., Gunn, George, McKendrick, Iain J. and Albon, Steve D.
(2017)
Combining slaughterhouse surveillance data with cattle tracing scheme and environmental data to quantify environmental risk factors for liver fluke in cattle.
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 4,
65.
(doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00065)
(PMID:28534030)
(PMCID:PMC5421147)
Gilbert, Lucy, Brunker, Kirstyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-6299, Lande, Unni, Klingen, Ingeborg and Grøva, Lise
(2017)
Environmental risk factors for Ixodes ricinus ticks and their infestation on lambs in a changing ecosystem: Implications for tick control and the impact of woodland encroachment on tick-borne disease in livestock.
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 237,
pp. 265-273.
(doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.12.041)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Johnson, D.
(2017)
Plant-plant communication through common mycorrhizal networks.
In: Becard, Guillaume (ed.)
How Plants Communicate with their Biotic Environment.
Series: Advances in botanical research, 82.
Academic Press.
ISBN 9780128014318
Johnson, D. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2017)
Mycorrhizal fungal networks as plant communication systems.
In: Dighton, J. and White, J.F. (eds.)
The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition.
CRC Press, pp. 539-548.
ISBN 9781498706650
2016
Røed, Knut H., Kvie, Kjersti S., Hasle, Gunnar, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Leinaas, Hans Petter
(2016)
Phylogenetic lineages and postglacial dispersal dynamics characterize the genetic structure of the tick, Ixodes ricinus, in Northwest Europe.
PLoS ONE, 11(12),
e0167450.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167450)
(PMID:27907193)
(PMCID:PMC5131986)
Millins, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X, Gilbert, Lucy, Johnson, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6663-7520, James, Marianne, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Birtles, Richard and Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357
(2016)
Heterogeneity in the abundance and distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) in Scotland: implications for risk prediction.
Parasites and Vectors, 9,
595.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1875-9)
(PMID:27876087)
(PMCID:PMC5084683)
Norman, R.A., Worton, A. J. and Gilbert, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2016)
Past and future perspectives on mathematical models of tick-borne pathogens.
Parasitology, 143(7),
pp. 850-859.
(doi: 10.1017/S0031182015001523)
(PMID:26683345)
Arnold, Kathryn E., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Gorman, Helen E., Griffiths, Kate J., Adam, Aileen and Nager, Rudolf
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1129-5724
(2016)
Paternal attractiveness and the effects of differential allocation of parental investment.
Animal Behaviour, 113,
pp. 69-78.
(doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.12.013)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2016)
Louping ill virus in the UK: a review of the hosts, transmission and ecological consequences of control.
Experimental and Applied Acarology, 68(3),
pp. 363-374.
(doi: 10.1007/s10493-015-9952-x)
(PMID:26205612)
Li, Sen, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Harrison, Paula A. and Rounsevell, Mark D.A.
(2016)
Modelling the seasonality of Lyme disease risk and the potential impacts of a warming climate within the heterogeneous landscapes of Scotland.
Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 13(116),
20160140.
(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0140)
(PMID:27030039)
(PMCID:PMC4843686)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2016)
How landscapes shape Lyme borreliosis risk.
In: Braks, Marieta A.H., van Wieren, Sipke E., Takken, Wukkem and Sprong, Hein (eds.)
Ecology and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis.
Series: Ecology and control of vector-borne diseases, 4.
Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 161-171.
ISBN 9789086862931
(doi: 10.3920/978-90-8686-838-4_11)
2015
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Johnson, David
(2015)
Plant-mediated ‘apparent effects’ between mycorrhiza and insect herbivores.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 26,
pp. 100-105.
(doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2015.06.008)
(PMID:26190588)
Millins, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X, Magierecka, Agnieszka, Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Edoff, Alissa, Brereton, Amelia, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Denwood, Matthew, Birtles, Richard and Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357
(2015)
An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(13),
pp. 4236-4245.
(doi: 10.1128/AEM.00109-15)
(PMID:25888168)
(PMCID:PMC447589)
Johnson, David and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2015)
Interplant signalling through hyphal networks.
New Phytologist, 205(4),
pp. 1448-1453.
(doi: 10.1111/nph.13115)
(PMID:25421970)
2014
Babikova, Zdenka, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Randall, Kate C., Bruce, Toby J. A., Pickett, John A. and Johnson, David
(2014)
Increasing phosphorus supply is not the mechanism by which arbuscular mycorrhiza increase attractiveness of bean (Vicia faba) to aphids.
Journal of Experimental Botany, 65(18),
pp. 5231-5241.
(doi: 10.1093/jxb/eru283)
(PMID:25200735)
(PMCID:PMC4157707)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Aungier, Jennifer and Tomkins, Joseph L.
(2014)
Climate of origin affects tick (Ixodes ricinus) host-seeking behavior in response to temperature: implications for resilience to climate change?
Ecology and Evolution, 4(7),
pp. 1186-1198.
(doi: 10.1002/ece3.1014)
(PMID:24772293)
(PMCID:PMC3997332)
James, Marianne C., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bowman, Alan S. and Forbes, Ken J.
(2014)
The heterogeneity, distribution, and environmental associations of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, in Scotland.
Frontiers in Public Health, 2,
129.
(doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00129)
(PMID:25221774)
(PMCID:PMC4147938)
Seward, Adam M., Beale, Colin M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, T. Hefin and Thomas, Robert J.
(2014)
The impact of increased food availability on reproduction in a long-distance migratory songbird: implications for environmental change?
PLoS ONE, 9(10),
e111180.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111180)
(PMID:25333485)
(PMCID:PMC4205087)
2013
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
Can restoration of afforested peatland regulate pests and disease?
Journal of Applied Ecology, 50(5),
pp. 1226-1233.
(doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12141)
Porter, R., Norman, R.A. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
A model to test how ticks and louping ill virus can be controlled by treating red grouse with acaricide.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 27(3),
pp. 237-246.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2012.01047.x)
(PMID:23088727)
Babikova, Zdenka, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bruce, Toby J.A., Birkett, Michael, Caulfield, John C., Woodcock, Christine, Pickett, John A., Johnson, David and van Dam, Nicole
(2013)
Underground signals carried through common mycelial networks warn neighbouring plants of aphid attack.
Ecology Letters, 16(7),
pp. 835-843.
(doi: 10.1111/ele.12115)
(PMID:23656527)
James, M.C., Bowman, A.S., Forbes, K.J., Lewis, F., McLeod, J.E. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
Environmental determinants of Ixodes ricinus ticks and the incidence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, in Scotland.
Parasitology, 140(2),
pp. 237-246.
(doi: 10.1017/S003118201200145X)
(PMID:23036286)
Porter, R., Norman, R.A. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
An alternative to killing? Treatment of reservoir hosts to control a vector and pathogen in a susceptible species.
Parasitology, 140(2),
pp. 247-257.
(doi: 10.1017/S0031182012001400)
(PMID:22939093)
Seward, Adam M., Beale, Colin M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, T. Hefin and Thomas, Robert J.
(2013)
The impact of increased food availability on survival of a long-distance migratory bird.
Ecology, 94(1),
pp. 221-230.
(doi: 10.1890/12-0121.1)
(PMID:23600256)
Babikova, Zdenka, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bruce, Toby, Dewhirst, Sarah Y., Pickett, John A., Johnson, David and Field, Katie
(2013)
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and aphids interact by changing host plant quality and volatile emission.
Functional Ecology, 28(2),
pp. 375-385.
(doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12181)
(PMID:IND5007400)
Babikova, Zdenka, Johnson, David, Bruce, Toby, Pickett, John and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
How rapid is aphid-induced signal transfer between plants via common mycelial networks?
Communicative and Integrative Biology, 6(6),
e25904.
(doi: 10.4161/cib.25904)
(PMID:24563703)
(PMCID:PMC3917958)
Babikova, Zdenka, Johnson, David, Bruce, Toby, Pickett, John and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
Underground allies: how and why do mycelial networks help plants defend themselves?
BioEssays, 36(1),
pp. 21-26.
(doi: 10.1002/bies.201300092)
(PMID:24129903)
2012
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Maffey, G.L., Ramsay, S.L. and Hester, A.J.
(2012)
The effect of deer management on the abundance ofIxodes ricinusin Scotland.
Ecological Applications, 22(2),
pp. 658-667.
(doi: 10.1890/11-0458.1)
(PMID:22611862)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Williamson, Kathryn A. and Graves, Jefferson A.
(2012)
Male attractiveness regulates daughter fecundity non-genetically via maternal investment.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 279(1728),
pp. 523-528.
(doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0962)
(PMID:21733898)
(PMCID:PMC3234556)
Pariser, E.C., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Hazon, N., Arnold, K.E. and Graves, J.A.
(2012)
Mind the gap: the ratio of yolk androgens and antioxidants varies between sons and daughters dependent on paternal attractiveness.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66(4),
pp. 519-527.
(doi: 10.1007/s00265-011-1300-5)
2011
Porter, Rosalyn, Norman, Rachel and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
Controlling tick-borne diseases through domestic animal management: a theoretical approach.
Theoretical Ecology, 4(3),
pp. 321-339.
(doi: 10.1007/s12080-010-0080-2)
Lewis, Fraser, Butler, Adam and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
A unified approach to model selection using the likelihood ratio test.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2(2),
pp. 155-162.
(doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00063.x)
James, M.C., Furness, R.W., Bowman, A.S., Forbes, K.J. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
The importance of passerine birds as tick hosts and in the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease: a case study from Scotland.
IBIS, 153(2),
pp. 293-302.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01111.x)
Jones, Edward O., Webb, Steven D., Ruiz-Fons, Francisco J., Albon, Steven and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
The effect of landscape heterogeneity and host movement on a tick-borne pathogen.
Theoretical Ecology, 4(4),
pp. 435-448.
(doi: 10.1007/s12080-010-0087-8)
2010
Harrison, A., Newey, S., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Haydon, D.T.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-1886 and Thirgood, S.
(2010)
Culling wildlife hosts to control disease: mountain hares, red grouse and louping ill virus.
Journal of Applied Ecology, 47(4),
pp. 926-930.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01834.x)
Ruiz-Fons, Francisco and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2010)
The role of deer as vehicles to move ticks, Ixodes ricinus, between contrasting habitats.
International Journal for Parasitology, 40(9),
pp. 1013-1020.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.02.006)
(PMID:20211625)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2010)
Altitudinal patterns of tick and host abundance: a potential role for climate change in regulating tick-borne diseases?
Oecologia, 162(1),
pp. 217-225.
(doi: 10.1007/s00442-009-1430-x)
(PMID:19685082)
2009
Medlock, J., Jameson, L.J., Pietzsch, M. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2009)
British ticks.
British Wildlife, 20(4),
pp. 258-266.
2008
Williamson, Kathryn, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Rutstein, Alison N., Pariser, Emma C. and Graves, Jeff A.
(2008)
Within-year differences in reproductive investment in laboratory zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), an opportunistically breeding bird.
Naturwissenschaften, 95(12),
pp. 1143-1148.
(doi: 10.1007/s00114-008-0436-2)
(PMID:18696033)
2007
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bulmer, E, Arnold, KE and Graves, JA
(2007)
Yolk androgens and embryo sex: Maternal effects or confounding factors?
Hormones and Behavior, 51,
pp. 231-238.
(doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.10.005)
2006
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Williamson, K.A, Hazon, N. and Graves, J.A
(2006)
Maternal effects due to male attractiveness affect offspring development in the zebra finch.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 273(1595),
pp. 1765-1771.
(doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3520)
(PMID:16790409)
(PMCID:PMC1634786)
2005
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Rutstein, Alison N., Hazon, Neil and Graves, Jefferson A.
(2005)
Sex-biased investment in yolk androgens depends on female quality and laying order in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).
Naturwissenschaften, 92(4),
pp. 178-181.
(doi: 10.1007/s00114-004-0603-z)
(PMID:15668780)
Rutstein, AN, Gorman, HE, Arnold, KE, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Orr, KJ, Adam, A, Nager, R and Graves, JA
(2005)
Sex allocation in response to paternal attractiveness in the zebra finch.
Behavioral Ecology, 16,
pp. 763-769.
(doi: 10.1093/beheco/ari052)
2004
Rutstein, A.N., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Slater, P.J.B. and Graves, J.A.
(2004)
Mate attractiveness and primary resource allocation in the zebra finch.
Animal Behaviour, 68(5),
pp. 1087-1094.
(doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.02.011)
Rutstein, Alison N., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Slater, Peter J. B. and Graves, Jeff A.
(2004)
Sex-specific patterns of yolk androgen allocation depend on maternal diet in the zebra finch.
Behavioral Ecology, 16(1),
pp. 62-69.
(doi: 10.1093/beheco/arh123)
Laurenson, M.K., Norman, R.A., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Reid, H.W. and Hudson, P.J.
(2004)
Mountain hares, louping-ill, red grouse and harvesting: complex interactions but few data.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 73(4),
pp. 811-813.
(doi: 10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00851.x)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, Linda D., Laurenson, M. Karen, Gould, Ernie A., Reid, Hugh W. and Hudson, Peter J.
(2004)
Ticks need not bite their red grouse hosts to infect them with louping ill virus.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 271(Suppl.),
s202-s205.
(doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0147)
(PMID:15252984)
(PMCID:PMC1810039)
Johnson, David, Vandenkoornhuyse, Philippe J., Leake, Jonathan R., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Booth, Rosemary E., Grime, J. Philip, Young, J. Peter W. and Read, David J.
(2004)
Plant communities affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and community composition in grassland microcosms.
New Phytologist, 161(2),
pp. 503-515.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00938.x)
2003
Laurenson, M.K., Norman, R.A., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Reid, H.W. and Hudson, P.J.
(2003)
Identifying disease reservoirs in complex systems: mountain hares as reservoirs of ticks and louping-ill virus, pathogens of red grouse.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 72(1),
pp. 177-185.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00688.x)
2001
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Norman, R., Laurenson, K. M., Reid, H. W. and Hudson, P. J.
(2001)
Disease persistence and apparent competition in a three-host community: an empirical and analytical study of large-scale, wild populations.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 70(6),
pp. 1053-1061.
(doi: 10.1046/j.0021-8790.2001.00558.x)
2000
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, L.D., Hudson, P.J., Gould, E.A. and Reid, H.W.
(2000)
Role of small mammals in the persistence of Louping-ill virus: field survey and tick co-feeding studies.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 14(3),
pp. 277-282.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2000.00236.x)
(PMID:11016435)
1998
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Burke, T. and Krupa, A.
(1998)
No evidence for extra‐pair paternity in the western gull.
Molecular Ecology, 7(11),
pp. 1549-1552.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00488.x)
1997
Long, D.J. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(1997)
California sea lion predation on chicks of the common murre.
Journal of Field Ornithology, 68(1),
pp. 152-157.
1996
Pyle, Peter and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(1996)
Occurrence patterns and trends of cetaceans recorded from Southeast Farallon Island, California, 1973 to 1994.
Northwestern Naturalist, 77(1),
p. 1.
(doi: 10.2307/3536517)
1991
Evans, P.G.H. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(1991)
Distributional ecology of harbour porpoises in the Shetland Islands, North Scotland.
In: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Sandefjord, Norway, 21-23 Feb 1991,
pp. 47-52.
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Worton, A. J., Norman, R. A., Gilbert, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Porter, R. B.
(2024)
GIS-ODE: linking dynamic population models with GIS to predict pathogen vector abundance across a country under climate change scenarios.
Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 21(217),
20240004.
(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0004)
(PMID:39106949)
Quer, Susanna, Peirce, Graham John, Waggershauser, Cristian N. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2024)
Completing the picture: using vertebrae as well as otoliths in diet analysis reveals new preferred prey of great skuas.
Marine Biology, 171,
139.
(doi: 10.1007/s00227-024-04441-2)
Plahe, Grace, Hall, Jessica L., Johnson, David, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Birtles, Richard
(2023)
Borrelia bavariensis in Questing Ixodes ricinus Ticks, United Kingdom.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 29(10),
pp. 2173-2175.
(doi: 10.3201/eid2910.230907)
(PMID:37735806)
(PMCID:PMC10521598)
Ribeiro, Rita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-3731, Eze, Jude I., Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Macrae, Alastair, Duncan, Andrew, Baughan, Jo, Gunn, George and Auty, Harriet
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-3780
(2023)
Linking human tick bite risk with tick abundance in the environment: a novel approach to quantify tick bite risk using orienteers in Scotland.
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 14(2),
102109.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102109)
Gandy, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2579-4479, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357, Millins, Caroline
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X and Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2022)
No net effect of host density on tick-borne disease hazard due to opposing roles of vector amplification and pathogen dilution.
Ecology and Evolution, 12(9),
e9253.
(doi: 10.1002/ece3.9253)
(PMID:36091342)
(PMCID:PMC9448966)
Gandy, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2579-4479, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357, Millins, Caroline
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X and Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2021)
Experimental evidence for opposing effects of high deer density on tick-borne disease pathogen prevalence and hazard.
Parasites and Vectors, 14(1),
509.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-05000-0)
(PMID:34593023)
(PMCID:PMC8485466)
Alaux, Pierre‐Louis, Zhang, Yaqian, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Johnson, David
(2021)
Can common mycorrhizal fungal networks be managed to enhance ecosystem functionality?
Plants, People, Planet, 3(5),
pp. 433-444.
(doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10178)
Olsthoorn, Fanny, Sprong, Hein, Fonville, Manoj, Rocchi, Mara, Medlock, Jolyon, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Ghazoul, Jaboury
(2021)
Occurrence of tick-borne pathogens in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from Wester Ross, Northwest Scotland.
Parasites and Vectors, 14(1),
430.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-04946-5)
(PMID:34446082)
(PMCID:PMC8393815)
Millins, C. et al. (2021) Emergence of Lyme disease on treeless islands in Scotland, UK. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(2), pp. 538-546. (doi: 10.3201/eid2702.203862) (PMID:33496237) (PMCID:PMC7853560)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2021)
The impacts of climate change on ticks and tick-borne disease risk.
Annual Review of Entomology, 66,
pp. 373-388.
(doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-052720-094533)
(PMID:33417823)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Brülisauer, Franz, Willoughby, Kim and Cousens, Chris
(2020)
Identifying environmental risk factors for louping Ill virus seroprevalence in sheep and the potential to inform wildlife management policy.
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7,
377.
(doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00377)
(PMID:32695800)
(PMCID:PMC7339109)
Ribeiro, Rita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-3731, Eze, Jude I., Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Wint, G. R. William, Gunn, George, Macrae, Alastair, Medlock, Jolyon M. and Auty, Harriet
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-3780
(2019)
Using imperfect data in predictive mapping of vectors: a regional example of Ixodes ricinus distribution.
Parasites and Vectors, 12,
536.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3784-1)
(PMID:31727162)
(PMCID:PMC6857280)
Rineau, F. et al. (2019) Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments. Nature Climate Change, 9, pp. 809-816. (doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0609-3)
Church, Gabriella E., Furness, Robert W., Tyler, Glen, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Votier, Stephen C.
(2019)
Change in the North Sea ecosystem from the 1970s to the 2010s: great skua diets reflect changing forage fish, seabirds, and fisheries.
ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76(4),
pp. 925-937.
(doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsy165)
Li, Sen, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Vanwambeke, Sophie O., Yu, Jianjun, Purse, Bethan V. and Harrison, Paula A.
(2019)
Lyme disease risks in Europe under multiple uncertain drivers of change.
Environmental Health Perspectives, 127(6),
067010.
(doi: 10.1289/ehp4615)
(PMID:31232609)
(PMCID:PMC6792373)
Slater, Jennifer M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Johnson, David and Karley, Alison J.
(2019)
Limited effects of the maternal rearing environment on the behaviour and fitness of an insect herbivore and its natural enemy.
PLoS ONE, 14(1),
e0209965.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209965)
(PMID:30633753)
(PMCID:PMC6329576)
Al-Khafaji, A. M. et al. (2019) Multi-locus sequence typing of Ixodes ricinus and its symbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii across Europe reveals evidence of local co-cladogenesis in Scotland. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 10(1), pp. 52-62. (doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.08.016) (PMID:30197267)
Millins, C. et al. (2018) Landscape structure affects the prevalence and distribution of a tick-borne zoonotic pathogen. Parasites and Vectors, 11, 621. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-3200-2) (PMID:30514350) (PMCID:PMC6278045)
Calladine, John, Humphreys, Elizabeth M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Furness, Robert W., Robinson, Robert A., Fuller, Robert J., Littlewood, Nick A., Pakeman, Robin J., Ferguson, Johanne and Thompson, Charles
(2017)
Continuing influences of introduced hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus as a predator of wader (Charadrii) eggs four decades after their release on the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Biological Invasions, 19(7),
pp. 1981-1987.
(doi: 10.1007/s10530-017-1422-4)
Millins, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X, Gilbert, Lucy, Medlock, Jolyon, Hansford, Kayleigh, Thompson, Des B.A. and Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357
(2017)
Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1722),
20160123.
(doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0123)
(PMID:28438912)
(PMCID:PMC5413871)
Innocent, Giles T., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, Edward O., McLeod, James E., Gunn, George, McKendrick, Iain J. and Albon, Steve D.
(2017)
Combining slaughterhouse surveillance data with cattle tracing scheme and environmental data to quantify environmental risk factors for liver fluke in cattle.
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 4,
65.
(doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00065)
(PMID:28534030)
(PMCID:PMC5421147)
Gilbert, Lucy, Brunker, Kirstyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-6299, Lande, Unni, Klingen, Ingeborg and Grøva, Lise
(2017)
Environmental risk factors for Ixodes ricinus ticks and their infestation on lambs in a changing ecosystem: Implications for tick control and the impact of woodland encroachment on tick-borne disease in livestock.
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 237,
pp. 265-273.
(doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.12.041)
Røed, Knut H., Kvie, Kjersti S., Hasle, Gunnar, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Leinaas, Hans Petter
(2016)
Phylogenetic lineages and postglacial dispersal dynamics characterize the genetic structure of the tick, Ixodes ricinus, in Northwest Europe.
PLoS ONE, 11(12),
e0167450.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167450)
(PMID:27907193)
(PMCID:PMC5131986)
Millins, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X, Gilbert, Lucy, Johnson, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6663-7520, James, Marianne, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Birtles, Richard and Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357
(2016)
Heterogeneity in the abundance and distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) in Scotland: implications for risk prediction.
Parasites and Vectors, 9,
595.
(doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1875-9)
(PMID:27876087)
(PMCID:PMC5084683)
Norman, R.A., Worton, A. J. and Gilbert, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2016)
Past and future perspectives on mathematical models of tick-borne pathogens.
Parasitology, 143(7),
pp. 850-859.
(doi: 10.1017/S0031182015001523)
(PMID:26683345)
Arnold, Kathryn E., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Gorman, Helen E., Griffiths, Kate J., Adam, Aileen and Nager, Rudolf
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1129-5724
(2016)
Paternal attractiveness and the effects of differential allocation of parental investment.
Animal Behaviour, 113,
pp. 69-78.
(doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.12.013)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2016)
Louping ill virus in the UK: a review of the hosts, transmission and ecological consequences of control.
Experimental and Applied Acarology, 68(3),
pp. 363-374.
(doi: 10.1007/s10493-015-9952-x)
(PMID:26205612)
Li, Sen, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Harrison, Paula A. and Rounsevell, Mark D.A.
(2016)
Modelling the seasonality of Lyme disease risk and the potential impacts of a warming climate within the heterogeneous landscapes of Scotland.
Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 13(116),
20160140.
(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0140)
(PMID:27030039)
(PMCID:PMC4843686)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Johnson, David
(2015)
Plant-mediated ‘apparent effects’ between mycorrhiza and insect herbivores.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 26,
pp. 100-105.
(doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2015.06.008)
(PMID:26190588)
Millins, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-092X, Magierecka, Agnieszka, Gilbert, Lucy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Edoff, Alissa, Brereton, Amelia, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Denwood, Matthew, Birtles, Richard and Biek, Roman
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-5357
(2015)
An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(13),
pp. 4236-4245.
(doi: 10.1128/AEM.00109-15)
(PMID:25888168)
(PMCID:PMC447589)
Johnson, David and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2015)
Interplant signalling through hyphal networks.
New Phytologist, 205(4),
pp. 1448-1453.
(doi: 10.1111/nph.13115)
(PMID:25421970)
Babikova, Zdenka, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Randall, Kate C., Bruce, Toby J. A., Pickett, John A. and Johnson, David
(2014)
Increasing phosphorus supply is not the mechanism by which arbuscular mycorrhiza increase attractiveness of bean (Vicia faba) to aphids.
Journal of Experimental Botany, 65(18),
pp. 5231-5241.
(doi: 10.1093/jxb/eru283)
(PMID:25200735)
(PMCID:PMC4157707)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Aungier, Jennifer and Tomkins, Joseph L.
(2014)
Climate of origin affects tick (Ixodes ricinus) host-seeking behavior in response to temperature: implications for resilience to climate change?
Ecology and Evolution, 4(7),
pp. 1186-1198.
(doi: 10.1002/ece3.1014)
(PMID:24772293)
(PMCID:PMC3997332)
James, Marianne C., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bowman, Alan S. and Forbes, Ken J.
(2014)
The heterogeneity, distribution, and environmental associations of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, in Scotland.
Frontiers in Public Health, 2,
129.
(doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00129)
(PMID:25221774)
(PMCID:PMC4147938)
Seward, Adam M., Beale, Colin M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, T. Hefin and Thomas, Robert J.
(2014)
The impact of increased food availability on reproduction in a long-distance migratory songbird: implications for environmental change?
PLoS ONE, 9(10),
e111180.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111180)
(PMID:25333485)
(PMCID:PMC4205087)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
Can restoration of afforested peatland regulate pests and disease?
Journal of Applied Ecology, 50(5),
pp. 1226-1233.
(doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12141)
Porter, R., Norman, R.A. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
A model to test how ticks and louping ill virus can be controlled by treating red grouse with acaricide.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 27(3),
pp. 237-246.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2012.01047.x)
(PMID:23088727)
Babikova, Zdenka, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bruce, Toby J.A., Birkett, Michael, Caulfield, John C., Woodcock, Christine, Pickett, John A., Johnson, David and van Dam, Nicole
(2013)
Underground signals carried through common mycelial networks warn neighbouring plants of aphid attack.
Ecology Letters, 16(7),
pp. 835-843.
(doi: 10.1111/ele.12115)
(PMID:23656527)
James, M.C., Bowman, A.S., Forbes, K.J., Lewis, F., McLeod, J.E. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
Environmental determinants of Ixodes ricinus ticks and the incidence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, in Scotland.
Parasitology, 140(2),
pp. 237-246.
(doi: 10.1017/S003118201200145X)
(PMID:23036286)
Porter, R., Norman, R.A. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
An alternative to killing? Treatment of reservoir hosts to control a vector and pathogen in a susceptible species.
Parasitology, 140(2),
pp. 247-257.
(doi: 10.1017/S0031182012001400)
(PMID:22939093)
Seward, Adam M., Beale, Colin M., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, T. Hefin and Thomas, Robert J.
(2013)
The impact of increased food availability on survival of a long-distance migratory bird.
Ecology, 94(1),
pp. 221-230.
(doi: 10.1890/12-0121.1)
(PMID:23600256)
Babikova, Zdenka, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bruce, Toby, Dewhirst, Sarah Y., Pickett, John A., Johnson, David and Field, Katie
(2013)
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and aphids interact by changing host plant quality and volatile emission.
Functional Ecology, 28(2),
pp. 375-385.
(doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12181)
(PMID:IND5007400)
Babikova, Zdenka, Johnson, David, Bruce, Toby, Pickett, John and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
How rapid is aphid-induced signal transfer between plants via common mycelial networks?
Communicative and Integrative Biology, 6(6),
e25904.
(doi: 10.4161/cib.25904)
(PMID:24563703)
(PMCID:PMC3917958)
Babikova, Zdenka, Johnson, David, Bruce, Toby, Pickett, John and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2013)
Underground allies: how and why do mycelial networks help plants defend themselves?
BioEssays, 36(1),
pp. 21-26.
(doi: 10.1002/bies.201300092)
(PMID:24129903)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Maffey, G.L., Ramsay, S.L. and Hester, A.J.
(2012)
The effect of deer management on the abundance ofIxodes ricinusin Scotland.
Ecological Applications, 22(2),
pp. 658-667.
(doi: 10.1890/11-0458.1)
(PMID:22611862)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Williamson, Kathryn A. and Graves, Jefferson A.
(2012)
Male attractiveness regulates daughter fecundity non-genetically via maternal investment.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 279(1728),
pp. 523-528.
(doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0962)
(PMID:21733898)
(PMCID:PMC3234556)
Pariser, E.C., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Hazon, N., Arnold, K.E. and Graves, J.A.
(2012)
Mind the gap: the ratio of yolk androgens and antioxidants varies between sons and daughters dependent on paternal attractiveness.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66(4),
pp. 519-527.
(doi: 10.1007/s00265-011-1300-5)
Porter, Rosalyn, Norman, Rachel and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
Controlling tick-borne diseases through domestic animal management: a theoretical approach.
Theoretical Ecology, 4(3),
pp. 321-339.
(doi: 10.1007/s12080-010-0080-2)
Lewis, Fraser, Butler, Adam and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
A unified approach to model selection using the likelihood ratio test.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2(2),
pp. 155-162.
(doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00063.x)
James, M.C., Furness, R.W., Bowman, A.S., Forbes, K.J. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
The importance of passerine birds as tick hosts and in the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease: a case study from Scotland.
IBIS, 153(2),
pp. 293-302.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01111.x)
Jones, Edward O., Webb, Steven D., Ruiz-Fons, Francisco J., Albon, Steven and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2011)
The effect of landscape heterogeneity and host movement on a tick-borne pathogen.
Theoretical Ecology, 4(4),
pp. 435-448.
(doi: 10.1007/s12080-010-0087-8)
Harrison, A., Newey, S., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Haydon, D.T.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-1886 and Thirgood, S.
(2010)
Culling wildlife hosts to control disease: mountain hares, red grouse and louping ill virus.
Journal of Applied Ecology, 47(4),
pp. 926-930.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01834.x)
Ruiz-Fons, Francisco and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2010)
The role of deer as vehicles to move ticks, Ixodes ricinus, between contrasting habitats.
International Journal for Parasitology, 40(9),
pp. 1013-1020.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.02.006)
(PMID:20211625)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2010)
Altitudinal patterns of tick and host abundance: a potential role for climate change in regulating tick-borne diseases?
Oecologia, 162(1),
pp. 217-225.
(doi: 10.1007/s00442-009-1430-x)
(PMID:19685082)
Medlock, J., Jameson, L.J., Pietzsch, M. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2009)
British ticks.
British Wildlife, 20(4),
pp. 258-266.
Williamson, Kathryn, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Rutstein, Alison N., Pariser, Emma C. and Graves, Jeff A.
(2008)
Within-year differences in reproductive investment in laboratory zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), an opportunistically breeding bird.
Naturwissenschaften, 95(12),
pp. 1143-1148.
(doi: 10.1007/s00114-008-0436-2)
(PMID:18696033)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Bulmer, E, Arnold, KE and Graves, JA
(2007)
Yolk androgens and embryo sex: Maternal effects or confounding factors?
Hormones and Behavior, 51,
pp. 231-238.
(doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.10.005)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Williamson, K.A, Hazon, N. and Graves, J.A
(2006)
Maternal effects due to male attractiveness affect offspring development in the zebra finch.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 273(1595),
pp. 1765-1771.
(doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3520)
(PMID:16790409)
(PMCID:PMC1634786)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Rutstein, Alison N., Hazon, Neil and Graves, Jefferson A.
(2005)
Sex-biased investment in yolk androgens depends on female quality and laying order in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).
Naturwissenschaften, 92(4),
pp. 178-181.
(doi: 10.1007/s00114-004-0603-z)
(PMID:15668780)
Rutstein, AN, Gorman, HE, Arnold, KE, Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Orr, KJ, Adam, A, Nager, R and Graves, JA
(2005)
Sex allocation in response to paternal attractiveness in the zebra finch.
Behavioral Ecology, 16,
pp. 763-769.
(doi: 10.1093/beheco/ari052)
Rutstein, A.N., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Slater, P.J.B. and Graves, J.A.
(2004)
Mate attractiveness and primary resource allocation in the zebra finch.
Animal Behaviour, 68(5),
pp. 1087-1094.
(doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.02.011)
Rutstein, Alison N., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Slater, Peter J. B. and Graves, Jeff A.
(2004)
Sex-specific patterns of yolk androgen allocation depend on maternal diet in the zebra finch.
Behavioral Ecology, 16(1),
pp. 62-69.
(doi: 10.1093/beheco/arh123)
Laurenson, M.K., Norman, R.A., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Reid, H.W. and Hudson, P.J.
(2004)
Mountain hares, louping-ill, red grouse and harvesting: complex interactions but few data.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 73(4),
pp. 811-813.
(doi: 10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00851.x)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, Linda D., Laurenson, M. Karen, Gould, Ernie A., Reid, Hugh W. and Hudson, Peter J.
(2004)
Ticks need not bite their red grouse hosts to infect them with louping ill virus.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 271(Suppl.),
s202-s205.
(doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0147)
(PMID:15252984)
(PMCID:PMC1810039)
Johnson, David, Vandenkoornhuyse, Philippe J., Leake, Jonathan R., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Booth, Rosemary E., Grime, J. Philip, Young, J. Peter W. and Read, David J.
(2004)
Plant communities affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and community composition in grassland microcosms.
New Phytologist, 161(2),
pp. 503-515.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00938.x)
Laurenson, M.K., Norman, R.A., Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Reid, H.W. and Hudson, P.J.
(2003)
Identifying disease reservoirs in complex systems: mountain hares as reservoirs of ticks and louping-ill virus, pathogens of red grouse.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 72(1),
pp. 177-185.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00688.x)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Norman, R., Laurenson, K. M., Reid, H. W. and Hudson, P. J.
(2001)
Disease persistence and apparent competition in a three-host community: an empirical and analytical study of large-scale, wild populations.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 70(6),
pp. 1053-1061.
(doi: 10.1046/j.0021-8790.2001.00558.x)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Jones, L.D., Hudson, P.J., Gould, E.A. and Reid, H.W.
(2000)
Role of small mammals in the persistence of Louping-ill virus: field survey and tick co-feeding studies.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 14(3),
pp. 277-282.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2000.00236.x)
(PMID:11016435)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450, Burke, T. and Krupa, A.
(1998)
No evidence for extra‐pair paternity in the western gull.
Molecular Ecology, 7(11),
pp. 1549-1552.
(doi: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00488.x)
Long, D.J. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(1997)
California sea lion predation on chicks of the common murre.
Journal of Field Ornithology, 68(1),
pp. 152-157.
Pyle, Peter and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(1996)
Occurrence patterns and trends of cetaceans recorded from Southeast Farallon Island, California, 1973 to 1994.
Northwestern Naturalist, 77(1),
p. 1.
(doi: 10.2307/3536517)
Book Sections
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2021)
Climate change impacts on Ixodes ricinus ticks in Scotland and implications for Lyme disease risk.
In: Nuttall, Pat (ed.)
Climate, Ticks and Disease.
Series: CABI Climate Change Series.
CABI, pp. 513-517.
ISBN 9781789249637
(doi: 10.1079/9781789249637.0074)
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450 and Johnson, D.
(2017)
Plant-plant communication through common mycorrhizal networks.
In: Becard, Guillaume (ed.)
How Plants Communicate with their Biotic Environment.
Series: Advances in botanical research, 82.
Academic Press.
ISBN 9780128014318
Johnson, D. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2017)
Mycorrhizal fungal networks as plant communication systems.
In: Dighton, J. and White, J.F. (eds.)
The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition.
CRC Press, pp. 539-548.
ISBN 9781498706650
Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(2016)
How landscapes shape Lyme borreliosis risk.
In: Braks, Marieta A.H., van Wieren, Sipke E., Takken, Wukkem and Sprong, Hein (eds.)
Ecology and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis.
Series: Ecology and control of vector-borne diseases, 4.
Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 161-171.
ISBN 9789086862931
(doi: 10.3920/978-90-8686-838-4_11)
Conference Proceedings
Evans, P.G.H. and Gilbert, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-8450
(1991)
Distributional ecology of harbour porpoises in the Shetland Islands, North Scotland.
In: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Sandefjord, Norway, 21-23 Feb 1991,
pp. 47-52.
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- ELUCIDATE: Understanding model use at the science-policy interface to improve preparedness for animal disease outbreaks
Medical Research Council
2024 - 2025
- EPIC Centre of Expertise in Animal Disease Outbreaks 2022- 2025
Scottish Government
2022 - 2025
- Environmental solutions to reduce the risk of current and future tick-borne zoonotic pathogens in the UK
Natural Environment Research Council
2021 - 2025
- Maximising Ecosystem Services in Urban Environments (MEaSURE)
Natural Environment Research Council
2021 - 2025
- Social networking in plants: biodiversity as a selective force for inter-plant signalling
Natural Environment Research Council
2018 - 2020
- EPIC Centre of Expertise in Animal Disease Outbreaks
Scottish Government
2018 - 2022
Supervision
- McLellan, William
Human and livestock influence on tick populations and the environmental hazards of Tick-Borne Pathogens