Rachel Reid

Email: 2203824r@student.gla.ac.uk

 

 

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-9676

Research title: Assessing the impacts of urbanisation and artificial light at night (ALAN) on avian health using both meta-analysis and experimental methods.

Research Summary

My research aims to investigate the impacts of urbanisation with a particular focus on artificial light at night on the health and physiology of bird populations. I am currently investigating the impacts of artifical light at night on a wide range of health biomarkers (oxidative stress, corticosterone, telomere length, glucose levels and body condition) on great tit nestlings in the field and zebra finches in captivity. 

I am also using a meta-analysis approach to invesitagte the effect of urbanisation as a whole on the health of bird populations globally. 

 

Publications

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0617

Supervisors

Conference

Wild Animal Initiative Symposium - Zoom (22nd October 2024).

Oral presentation entitled "Does urbanisation lead to poor health? A global meta-analysis on birds"

British Ornithologists Union Conference - Nottingham University, Nottingham, England (9-11th April 2024)

Oral presentation entitled "The impacts of artificial light at night on the health of great tit nestlings"

European Ornithologists Union Conference - Lund University, Lund, Sweden (21st-25th August 2023)

Oral presentation entitled "Does urbanisation lead to poor health? A global meta-analysis on birds"

 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting - Edinburgh International Conference Centre (19th-21st December 2022)

Oral presentation entitled "Does urbanisation lead to poor health? A global meta-analysis on birds"

Annual Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Research - University of Glasgow (8th April 2019)

Poster presentation entitled "Elephant impact on woody vegetation in a South African game reserve and its effects on the browsing behaviour of other herbivores"

Quantitative Methods in Biodiversity, Conservation and Epidemiology Symposium (6th August 2020)

Presentation entitled "The relationship between habitat characteristics, food availability and the reproductive success of blue tits and great tits along a rural-urban gradient"

 

Teaching

Graduate teaching assistant (Part-time demonstrator and part time tutor)