Dr Scott Newey

Research Interests

A wildlife ecologist Scott's research aims to understand how natural and anthropogenic factors interact to drive wildlife population dynamics and how wildlife populations can be sustainably managed. Using mountain hares in the Scottish uplands as a model system current work combines large scale, replicated field experiments with cross-sectional and modelling studies to investigate the role of natural factors - such as parasites and food availability, management, and habitat fragmentation on mountain hare population dynamics - see the mountain hare web pages for more information.

Other projects include:

• NPPHunt: Development of sustainable hunting tourism in northern Europe
• Development of a reliable method for estimating mountain hare numbers
• Compensatory population dynamics in a harvested mammal (Annabel Harrison - NERC CASE studentship)
• The Distribution and ecology of Stark's hare Lepus starki in the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

Scott's highlighted publications

• Population and individual level effects of over-winter supplementary feeding mountain hares., Newey, S.; Allison, P.; Thirgood, S.; Smith, A.A.; Graham, I.M., (In press) Journal of Zoology.

Scott's most recent publications

• Distribution of mountain hares (Lepus timidus) in Scotland: results from a questionnaire survey., Patton, V.; Ewald, J.; Smith, A.A.; Newey, S.; Iason, G.; Thirgood, S.J.; Raynor, R., (In press) Mammal Review.

• Culling wildlife hosts to control disease: mountain hares, red grouse and louping ill virus., Harrison, A.; Newey, S.; Gilbert, L.; Haydon, D.T.; Thirgood, S., (2010) Journal of Applied Ecology, 46, 926-930.

• Using PIT tag technology to target supplementary feeding studies., Newey, S.; Allison, P.; Thirgood, S.; Smith, A.; Graham, I., (2010) Wildlife Biology, 15, 405-411.

• Natal dispersal of mountain hare leverets in Scotland: the effects of harvesting., Harrison, A.; Newey, S.; Thirgood, S.; Haydon, D., (2009) Mammal Society Annual Meeting, The University of Winchester, 17th - 19th April 2009.

• Natal dispersal or mountain hare leverets in Scotland: the effects of harvesting., Harrison, A.; Newey, S.; Thirgood, S.; Haydon, D., (2009) British Ecological Society Annual Conference, University of Hertfordshire, 7th-10th September 2009.

• Natal dispersal or mountain hare leverets in Scotland: the effects of harvesting., Harrison, A.; Newey, S.; Thirgood, S.; Haydon, D., (2009) Populations under Pressure 2009, A Graduate Research Symposium in Applied Population Biology, Silwood Park, Imperial College London, UK, 26-28 May 2009. Natal dispersal or mountain hare leverets in Scotland: the effects of harvesting Annabel Harrison, Scott Newey, Simon Thirgood, Dan Haydon

• Natal dispersal or mountain hare leverets in Scotland: the effects of harvesting., Harrison, A.; Newey, S.; Thirgood, S.; Haydon, D., (2009) Student Conference, Evidence Base for Environmental Management and Conservation, Stirling University, 6th April 2009. Annabel Harrison, Scott Newey, Simon Thirgood, Dan Haydon

• Development of a reliable method for estimating mountain hare numbers., Newey, S.; Potts, J.; Iason, G.; Baines, D.; Harrison, A.; Ramsay, S.; Duncan, M.; Castillo, U.; Thirgood, S., (2009) Scottish Natural Heritage Interim Report.

• Can parasites drive population cycles in mountain hares?, Townsend, S.E.; Newey, S.; Thirgood, S.J.; Matthews, L.; Haydon, D.T., (2009) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 276, 1611-1617.

• The distribution of mountain hare (Lepus timidus) in Scotland (2006/07)., Kinrade, V.; Ewald, J.; Smith, A.; Newey, S.; Iason, G.R..; Thirgood, S.J.; Raynor, R., (2008) Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No.278 (ROAME No. F05AC701).