Biography

Work Package Leader (WP) on Habitats for Glastir (agri-environment) monitoring in Wales 2012-present. Project leader for Defra project on injurious weeds and non-native species 2012. Project leader for NERC/LWEC project; Synthesis of reports on ecosystem services 2011.

Research Intrest

Analysing large-scale, long-term monitoring data (plant species, habitats and traits) to detect changes in ecosystems and to attribute changes to drivers e.g. atmospheric deposition, land-use change.

List of Publications
Maskell, Lindsay C.; Smart, Simon M.; Bullock, James M.; Thompson, Ken; Stevens, Carly J., 2010, Nitrogen deposition causes widespread loss of species richness in British habitats. Global Change Biology, 16, 671-679
Tipping, E.; Henrys, P.A.; Maskell, L.C.; Smart, S.M., 2013, Nitrogen deposition effects on plant species diversity; threshold loads from field data. Environmental Pollution, 179, 218-223
Maskell, Lindsay C.; Crowe, Andrew; Dunbar, Michael J.; Emmett, Bridget; Henrys, Peter; Keith, Aidan M.; Norton, Lisa R.; Scholefield, Paul; Clark, Douglas B.; Simpson, Ian C.; Smart, Simon M., 2013, Exploring the ecological constraints to multiple ecosystem service delivery and biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50, 561-571