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Professor Simon Potts

Simon Potts portrait

Areas of interest

  • Understanding the relationships between land use, biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Food security: role of biodiversity and ecosystem services in food production
  • Developing evidence-based adaptation and mitigation options for policy and management applications
  • Conservation of pollinators and sustainable management of pollination services
  • Environmental drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem services, including: land use change, climate change, agrochemicals, invasive species and socio-economic factors
  • Quantifying the economic and socio-cultural value of pollination and other ecosystem services
  • Ecology and management of agro-ecosystems for the conservation of biodiversity

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD Students:

  • Wiktoria Szkolnicka (BBSRC FoodBioSystems DTP) Novel pathways to transition complex supply chains to regenerative agriculture.
  • Bea Kerry (EU & UoR) Pollinator-friendly food labelling schemes.
  • Sirajum Munira (NERC Scenarios DTP) Using drone LIDAR technology to quantify hedgerow management, quality and configuration, and the impacts on farmland pollinator communities.
  • Leila Nicholson (BBSRC FoodBioSystems DTP) Increasing the value of silvoarable agroforestry using understory crops in the tree rows.
  • Harriet Gold (BBSRC FoodBioSystems DTP) Optimizing UK landscapes for agroecosystem resilience.
  • Joris Rockx, (UoR) Precision Apiculture: enhancing the health and effectiveness of managed honeybees for soft fruit production.
  • Rosy Scholes (BBSRC FoodBioSystems DTP) Integrating trees into arable systems to improve soil health & provide resilience to climate change.
  • Ellen Knight (NERC Scenarios DTP) Does pollinator diversity moderate ecosystem function in agroforestry systems?

 

Completed PhD Students (since 2015):

  • Hannah McGrath (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Huntapac) Designer field margins for multiple benefits to production.
  • Alice Haughan (NERC QMEE CDT - ZSL) Predicting the impacts of multiple interacting drivers on a global biodiversity hotspot.
  • Kelly Jowett (伊人直播app-Rothamsted Alliance) Modelling landscape quality and configuration effects on natural enemy communities and the provision of pest regulation services.
  • Duncan Coston (Lawes Trust) Quantifying the impacts of the neonicotinoid restriction on oilseed rape pest control, pollination and productivity.
  • Sam Leigh (BBSRC DTP - LIBERATION) Harnessing multiple benefits from novel crop rotations: increased yield, pest regulation, soil fertility and environmental quality.
  • Erika Degani (BBSRC CASE - Syngenta) Novel crop rotations to enhance multiple ecosystem services underpinning production of winter wheat and oilseed rape.
  • Mark Ashby (BBSRC DTP) Enhancing the benefits to biodiversity and ecosystem service delivery from uncropped areas in farms.
  • Sean Webber (BBSRC CASE - Sainsbury's) Managing Ecosystem Services to Promote Economic Benefits and Food Security.
  • Maria Zhang (EC FP7) Valuing biological pest control services.
  • Dimitrios Bormpoudakis (EC FP7), The coherence and ecological sufficiency of European protected area networks.
  • Louise Sutherland (EC FP7), Developing novel Systematic Conservation Planning tools.
  • Charalambos Christodoulou (Cyprus government, part-time), Assessing the effectiveness of Natura 2000 sites in Cyprus.
  • Megan Mckerchar (World Wide Fruit), Enhancing pollination and pest regulation services by supplementing floral resources.
  • Jacob Bishop (BBSRC DTG), Yield stability and climate change: the role of pollinators.
  • Chloe Hardman (BBSRC DTG), The effectiveness of agri-environmental management for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the wider countryside.
  • Victoria Wickens (EC FP7), Understanding and managing the flow of pollination services between protected areas and agroecosystems.
  • Jennifer Wickens (self-funded), Understanding and managing the flow of pest regulation services between protected areas and agroecosystems.
  • Alexa Varah (伊人直播app RETF and Organic Research Centre), Can agroforestry reconcile conflicting demands for productivity, biodiversity conservation and delivery of ecosystem services?
  • Elena Cini (EU H2020) New tools for bee health.
  • Konstantinos Tsiolis (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Worldwide Fruit Limited) Bee nesting resources: the missing element of sustainable crop pollination.
  • Nick Buck (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, BerryWorld) Impacts of novel control strategies for Spotted Winged Drosophila on ecosystem services and crop production in raspberries.
  • Chris Wyver (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Worldwide Fruit Limited) Quantifying and mitigating spatio-temporal risks to pollination services caused by climate change.
  • Kiera Dymond (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Greencell) Sustainable avocado production: Challenges, solutions and the role of biodiversity.
  • Hollie Blaydes (NERC ENVISION DTP) Solar parks: refuges for pollinators and boosting pollination services.

Research centres and groups

NIRD Trust: Committee member

Biodiversity, Crops and Agro-ecosystems Research Division

Centre for Food Security

Soil Research at 伊人直播app

Research Group:

Research projects

Current European Projects:

  • : Safeguarding European wild pollinators (EU Horizon 2020)
  • : Showcasing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services (EU Horizon H2020)
  • : Restoring Pollinator habitats across European ag