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| Name | Reynolds, Julian | |
| Main Department | Zoology | |
| College Title | Fellow Emeritus | |
| jrynolds@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1366 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/jrynolds | |
| Notes | Home Tel. 01-2887856 | |
| Biography | |
| After a classical education at The High School, Dublin, I entered Dublin University (Entrance Scholarship 1960), was awarded Foundation Scholarship in Natural Sciences and obtained a first class honors Zoology degree in 1964. Student activities included Choral Society, Sailing club, Librarian of the ‘Phil’ and field trips where I developed a love of the Irish landscape. At the Salmon Research Trust, Mayo, I studied stream fish and invertebrate populations in 1962 and 1963. After graduation, I took up a VSO research assistantship / fellowship in 1965 in the University of Ghana’s Volta Basin Research Project, assisting with chemical, plankton, fish and invertebrate surveys and lecturing at the Universities of Ghana and Cape Coast. This period led to 7 research reports, a MSc on developing fish populations of the new reservoir and 8 peer-reviewed papers. In 1974 I completed a PhD on saline lake ecology at the University of British Columbia, which yielded 6 papers, and taught Introductory Biology there and at Simon Fraser University, before two years lecturing in limnology and fisheries biology at the University of Victoria. In 1977 I returned to TCD as a lecturer in Biology, became a Senior Lecturer in 1988, and Fellow in 1991, having developed the fields of Freshwater Biology and Fisheries Biology in Trinity, co-ordinated a 12-centre Erasmus network in Limnology and written and consulted extensively about environmental pollution. In College I supervised 20 postgraduates and examined as many PhD theses in Ireland, UK and France. I was elected Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy’s National Commission for Hydrobiology, chaired the Wildlife Committee of An Taisce and served on the Government Wildlife Advisory Council and Water Pollution Advisory Council. Roles in the past decade included Head of Zoology Department TCD, External Assessor for the UCD Zoology Department Review, External Examiner to the Environmental Science Degree at UCD and to both the Zoology Degree and Diploma in Field Ecology, NUI Cork; Organising Committee member of the 1998 International Limnological Conference in Dublin and chair of its Publications Committee; organizer of national meetings on freshwaters and international meetings in Ireland, France, Norway and Austria as a founder member of the EU Network CRAYNET; Professeur Invité at the Université de Poitiers in 2004, and invitations to speak at international meetings in Poitiers, Geneva, Grenada and Czech Republic and regional meetings in Cork, Leeds and Bristol. I remain active in ecological research involving crustaceans (crayfish and woodlice), eels and temporary water-bodies, with several books, chapters and over 125 refereed articles. | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Invited reviewer for tmany journals in recent years, including: Acta Oecologia, Aquaculture, Aquaculture international, Aquatic Conservation, Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Biodiversity & Conservation, Biology & Environment, Bulletin Francais Peche et Pisciculture, Freshwater Biology, Fundamental & Applied Limnology, Hydrobiology, Irish Naturalists Journal, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Morphology, Journal of Zoology, Marine & Freshwater Research, Knowledge & Management of Aquatic Ecosystems | 2006-2012 |
| Invited Speaker on Postglacial colonisation of Ireland, 'Mind the Gap' Conference, UCC | 1-3 September 2006 |
| Invited speaker on turloughs at First international Pond Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland | November 2004 |
| Invited keynote speaker at Spanish Crayfish Meeting, Granada, Spain | November 2004 |
| Invited speaker at regional meeting of environmental engineers, Poitiers, France | 2003 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Member of International Association of Limnology, British Ecological Society, World Aquaculture Society, Irish Wildlife Trust | ||
| Core member European Research Network CRAYNET | 2002 | 2006 |
| Secretary, National Commission for Hydrobiology, Royal Irish Academy | ca 1990 | ca 2000 |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Foundation Scholarship in Natural Science TCD | 1962 |
| Fellowship TCD | 1991 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Fluent | Medium | Fluent |
| German | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| Spanish | Medium | Basic | Medium |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Aquatic biology and conservation, particularly biology of freshwater crayfish, eels and water beetles; ecology of freshwater bodies including turloughs, springs and bog pools. Terrestrial ecology - flora and invertebrate fauna of terrestrial habitats; ecology of otters. Biodiversity and Conservation management. Glacial relicts and postglacial colonisation. Protected species and threatened biotopes. |
| Research Interests | |||
| AGE | AGE AR MIGRATION | ANGUILLA ANGUILLA (L.) | AQUACULTURE |
| ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION | ASTACULTURE | AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS | AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS PALLIPES |
| Agri Environment | Agriculture Conservation | Animal Ecology | Animal Taxonomy |
| Aquatic Ecology | BEHAVIOR | BIOCONTROL | BIOGEOGRAPHY |
| Biodiversity | Biological Monitoring, Risk Factors and Assessment | CHANGES | CONSERVATION |
| CONSERVATION GENETICS | CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT | CRAYFISH | CRAYFISH PREDATION |
| CRUSTACEA | Canada | Conservation and wildlife biology | DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS |
| DECAPODA | DIET | DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH BETWEEN THE SEXES | DREISSENA |
| Diversity of water beetles in Ireland and Co Limerick | ECOSYSTEMS | EEL | Ecology |
| Ecosystem(s) | Endangered Species | Environmental Conservation | Environmental Restoration/Remediation |
| Environmental Zoology | Environmental biology | FRESH-WATER CRAYFISH | Fish, Fisheries |
| Floods/Flooding | Flora and vegetation of County Limerick | Freshwater Crayfish | Freshwater ecology |
| GENETIC STRUCTURE | GRAZING | GROWTH | HEAD SHAPE |
| INCREMENTAL GROWTH | INVASIVE SPECIES | IRELAND | Ichthyology |
| Invertebrate Physiology | LANDBRIDGE | Limnology | MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA |
| Marine science and Fisheries biology | Migratory Animals and Birds | NORTH-AMERICA | Natural History |
| Natural Resources Management | OMNIVOROUS CRAYFISH | POLYMORPHISMS | PREY |
| Public Education | RAPD | RESTRICTION DATA | RIVER |
| Rivers/Streams | SIZE-SELECTION | Soil Sciences, Conservation | Temperate Zones |
| Turloughs | VEGETATION | Western Africa | Western Europe |
| Wetland Ecosystems | Wetlands | Wildlife | YELLOW EELS |
| Zoology |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Freshwater crayfish biology |
| Summary | Ongoing studies of the ecology, life history, distribution and aquaculture of freshwater crayfish in Ireland and globally |
| Funding Agency | |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1978 |
| Date to | ongoing |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | WOODLICE AND GRASSLAND BIODIVERSITY |
| Summary | Use of woodlice as bioindicators of grassland quality, in France and Ireland. |
| Funding Agency | CNRS, |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Research |
| Date from | 2002 |
| Date to | |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | TURLOUGH INVERTEBRATE ECOLOGY |
| Summary | Understanding turlough community ecology leading to typology and conservation management |
| Funding Agency | |
| Programme | Collaboration with NPWS |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | |
| Date to | |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Landed class in Co. Limerick, 19th century |
| Summary | Later life of Sir Stephen de Vere - influence, friends, classical translations, economics of running a large house, downsizing |
| Funding Agency | private |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2005 |
| Date to | |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Water beetles of Co Limerick |
| Summary | To develop a distribution atlas and check-list of the Limerick water beetles. |
| Funding Agency | National Biodiversity Data Centre |
| Programme | Bursary |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2007 |
| Date to | |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Julian D Reynolds and Catherine Souty-Grosset, Management of freshwater biodiversity: Crayfish as bioindicators, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 1-374pp | |
| Reynolds, J.D. and R. Donohoe, Crayfish Predation experiments on the introduced zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, in Ireland, and their potential for biocontrol., Bulletin Francais de la peche et de la pisciculture, 361, (2), 2001, p669 - 681 | |
| MATTHEWS, MA and REYNOLDS, JD, A POPULATION STUDY OF THE WHITE-CLAWED CRAYFISH AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS PALLIPES (LEREBOULLET) IN AN IRISH RESERVOIR, BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT-PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, 95B, 1996, p99 - 109 | |
| REYNOLDS, JD, CRAYFISH EXTINCTIONS AND CRAYFISH PLAGUE IN CENTRAL IRELAND, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 45, 1988, p279 - 285 | |
| BRADLEY, MDK, REYNOLDS, JD, DIET OF THE LEECHES ERPOBDELLA-OCTOCULATA (L) AND HELOBDELLA-STAGNALIS (L) IN A LOTIC HABITAT SUBJECT TO ORGANIC POLLUTION, FRESHWATER BIOLOGY, 18, 1987, p267 - 275 | |
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