M. C. Townsend

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(13), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(10), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(8), Plant and animal studies(6), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(3)

Publications31 total

Leveraging Biodiversity Net Gain to address invertebrate declines in England
Insect Conservation and Diversity·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Leveraging Biodiversity Net Gain to address invertebrate declines in England
2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Industrial liaison officers, key intermediaries between Big Science organisations and their industrial suppliers
2023Open Access
Organic Farming: Biodiversity Impacts Can Depend on Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Context
PLoS ONE·2015· 30 citedOpen Access
Does organic farming affect biodiversity?
Oxford University Press eBooks·2015· 4 cited
BWS2015-report-cover
2015
Monitoring oak processionary moth <i>Thaumetopoea processionea</i> L. using pheromone traps: the influence of pheromone lure source, trap design and height above the ground on capture rates
Agricultural and Forest Entomology·2013· 22 cited
Assessing the Built Environment
2013
Shelter benefits less mobile moth species: The field-scale effect of hedgerow trees
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment·2010· 78 cited
Habitat preference and mobility of Polia bombycina: are non-tailored agri-environment schemes any good for a rare and localised species?
Journal of Insect Conservation·2010· 29 cited
Optimizing the biodiversity gain from agri-environment schemes
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment·2009· 144 cited
Effect of field margins on moths depends on species mobility: Field-based evidence for landscape-scale conservation
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment·2008· 119 cited
An outbreak of the Oak Processionary moth Thaumetopoea processionea (L.) (Lep.: Thaumetopoeidae) in south-west London
Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)·2006· 1 citedOpen Access
The benefits of organic farming for biodiversity
Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture)·2006· 3 citedOpen Access
Benefits of organic farming to biodiversity vary among taxa
Biology Letters·2005· 355 citedOpen Access
A newly discovered colony of Barberry carpet Pareulype berberata ((D. & S.)) (Lep.: Geometridae) in Oxfordshire
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2005Open Access
Notable Lepidoptera from Barking, Essex
Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)·1997Open Access
Rothamsted farmland light trap network: interesting Lepidoptera records, January to June 1991
Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository)·1992
Rothamsted farmland light trap network: interesting Lepidoptera records, October to December 1990
Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository)·1992
Rothamsted farmland ecology project: interesting Lepidoptera records for July 1991
Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository)·1992
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Frequent Co-authors

A. M. Riley(13), Ruth E. Feber(8), David W. Macdonald(8), Robert J. Fuller(4), Lisa Norton(4), Dan Chamberlain(4), Fiona Mathews(4), Will Manley(4), L. G. Firbank(4), Thomas Merckx(4), Philip Riordan(4), Nigel A. D. Bourn(4), Mark Parsons(4), Paul J. Johnson(3), I. P. Woiwod(3), Andrew Joys(2), R. C. Stuart(2), Martin S. Wolfe(2), Natalie Duffus(2), Owen T. Lewis(2)