Dr Jamie Tratalos
Jamie joined the Centre for Environmental Management in November 2012 after 11 years in a variety of research posts. He is working on Work Packages 4 (Cultural Services) and 6 (Scenarios) of the UK National Ecosystems Assessment. He will be involved primarily in spatial modelling and project management. He has a BA in Classics from Oxford University, a diploma in Environmental Economics, an MRes in Ecology and Environmental Management from the University of York, and a PhD in Ecology from the University of Greenwich. He subsequently worked as a Geographic Information analyst in Local Government, before embarking on GIS-related post-doctoral positions at the University of East Anglia (visitor impacts on wading bird populations) and Sheffield (urban ecology). After periods working as a consultant for the United Nations and a spatial data analyst for the British Antarctic Survey, he spent 4 years as a Research Consultant for Dr Foster, a health care informatics consultancy.
Selected publications
Tratalos, J.A. & Cheke, R.A. (2010). Desert locust populations, rainfall and climate change: insights from phenomenological models using gridded monthly data. Climate Research 43 229–239.
Irvine, K.N., Fuller, R.A., Devine-Wright P., Tratalos, J.A., Payne, S., Lomas, K.J. & Gaston, K. J. (2010). Ecological and Psychological Value of Green Space. Pp. 215–237 in: Jenks, M. & Jones, C. (eds.) Dimensions of the Sustainable City. Springer, London.
Coombes, E.G., Jones, P., Bateman, J.A., Tratalos, J.A., Gill, J.A., Showler, D.A., Watkinson, A.R. & Sutherland W.J. (2009). Spatial and Temporal Modelling of Beach Use: A Case Study of East Anglia, UK. Coastal Management 37 94–115.
Fuller, R.A., Tratalos, J.A., & Gaston, K.J. (2009). How many birds are there in a city of half a million people? Diversity and Distributions 15 328-337.
Sims, V., Evans, K.L., Newson, S.E., Tratalos, J.A. & Gaston, K.J. (2008). Avian assemblage structure and domestic cat densities in urban environments. Diversity and Distributions 14 387-399.
Davies, R.G., Barbosa, O., Fuller, R.A., Tratalos, J.A., Burke, N., Lewis, D., Warren, P.H. & Gaston, K.J. (2008). City-wide relationships between green spaces, urban land use and topography. Urban Ecosystems 11, 269-287.
Tratalos, J.A., Fuller, R.A., Warren, P.H., Davies, R. G. and Gaston, K.J. (2007a) Urban Form, Biodiversity Potential and Ecosystem Services. Landscape and Urban Planning 83 308-317.
Tratalos, J.A., Fuller, R., Evans, K.L., Davies, R.G., Newson, S., Greenwood, J.D. & Gaston, K.J. (2007b) Urban bird densities are associated with household densities. Global Change Biology 13 (8) 1685-1695.
Cheke, R.A. & Tratalos, J.A. (2007). Migration, patchiness and population processes. Bioscience 57 (2) 145-154.
Barbosa, O., Tratalos, J.A. Armsworth, P.R., Davies, R.G., Fuller, R.A., Johnson, P. & Gaston, K.J. (2007). Who benefits from access to green space? A case study from Sheffield, UK. Landscape and Urban Planning 83 (2-3) 187-195.
Current Projects
- OpenNESS: Operationalisation of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: From Concepts to real-world Applications. (funded by EU FP7 Collaborative Project, WP1 leader "Ecosystem Service Concepts”, 12/2012-5/2017)
- Common International Classification for Ecosystem Services (CICES) – funded by EEA - Report and update
- Policy Impact and Future Options for Countryside Survey – funded by Defra (12/2011 – 11/2012) - Report
- Valuing Nature Network – funded by NERC (12/2010 - 11/2012) (VNN)
Contact:
Centre for Environmental Management, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, Tel.: +44 (0) 115 95 15635, Fax: +44 (0) 115 95 15429, Email: Jamie.Tratalos@Nottingham.ac.uk