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41
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8178
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5760
National Ranking
617

Overview

David I. McCracken is affiliated with Scotland's Rural College in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing on various subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work addresses several main topics including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

David I. McCracken has co-authored multiple papers with frequent collaborators such as Eric M. Bignal, Irina Herzon, Inês Ribeiro, Tiago Domingos, and Vânia Proença. These partnerships have contributed to a variety of studies across interconnected aspects of rural and environmental sciences.

They have published research in several notable venues, including:

  • Ecology and Society
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Land Use Policy
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Global Ecology and Conservation

Some recent papers by David I. McCracken include:

  • "Simplistic understandings of farmer motivations could undermine the environmental potential of the common agricultural policy" (2020, Land Use Policy)
  • "Beef Production in the Southwestern United States: Strategies Toward Sustainability" (2020, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems)
  • "Key traits for ruminant livestock across diverse production systems in the context of climate change: perspectives from a global platform of research farms" (2021, Reproduction Fertility and Development)
  • "Taking the steps toward sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey" (2021, Animal Frontiers)
  • "Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe" (2023, Ecology and Society)

Best Publications

  • Identifying and managing the conflicts between agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Europe - a review

    Klaus Henle;Didier Alard;Jeremy Clitherow;Paul Cobb

  • Low-intensity farming systems in the conservation of the countryside

    Eric M. Bignal;David I. McCracken

  • Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU

    Alan Renwick;Torbjörn R. N. Jansson;Peter H. Verburg;Cesar Revoredo-Giha

  • Towards sustainable land use: identifying and managing the conflicts between human activities and biodiversity conservation in Europe

    Juliette Young;Allan Watt;Peter Nowicki;Didier Alard

  • The emergence of biodiversity conflicts from biodiversity impacts: characteristics and management strategies

    Juliette C. Young;Mariella Marzano;Rehema M. White;David I. McCracken

  • The nature conservation value of European traditional farming systems

    Eric M. Bignal;David I. McCracken

  • Improving the science-policy dialogue to meet the challenges of biodiversity conservation: having conversations rather than talking at one-another

    Juliette C. Young;Kerry A. Waylen;Simo Sarkki;Steve Albon

  • Age‐specific reproductive performance in red‐billed choughs Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax: patterns and processes in a natural population

    J. M. Reid;J. M. Reid;E. M. Bignal;S. Bignal;D. I. McCracken

  • Biodiversity in intensive grasslands: effect of management, improvement and challenges

    Sylvain Plantureux;Alain Peeters;D. McCracken

  • Relationships between agricultural management and ecological groups of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) on Scottish farmland

    Lorna J Cole;David I McCracken;Peter Dennis;Iain S Downie

  • The effects of livestock grazing on foliar arthropods associated with bird diet in upland grasslands of Scotland

    Peter Dennis;John Skartveit;David I. McCracken;Robin J. Pakeman

  • Environmental variability, life-history covariation and cohort effects in the red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

    J. M. Reid;E. M. Bignal;S. Bignal;D. I. McCracken

  • Simplistic understandings of farmer motivations could undermine the environmental potential of the common agricultural policy

    Calum Brown;Eszter Kovács;Irina Herzon;Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

  • Mapping and monitoring High Nature Value farmlands: challenges in European landscapes.

    Angela Lomba;Carlos Guerra;Carlos Guerra;Joaquim Alonso;João Pradinho Honrado

  • Swards and structure: the interactions between farming practices and bird food resources in lowland grasslands

    D. I. McCracken;J. R. B. Tallowin

  • Exploring the interactions between resource availability and the utilisation of semi-natural habitats by insect pollinators in an intensive agricultural landscape

    Lorna J. Cole;Sarah Brocklehurst;Duncan Robertson;William Harrison

  • Comparing the effects of farming practices on ground beetle (Coleoptera Carabidae) and spider (Araneae) assemblages of Scottish farmland

    Lorna J. Cole;David I. McCracken;Iain S. Downie;Peter Dennis

  • Delivering multiple ecosystem services from Enclosed Farmland in the UK

    Les Firbank;Richard B. Bradbury;David I. McCracken;Chris Stoate

  • A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MORPHOLOGY AND LIFE TRAITS OF SCOTTISH GROUND BEETLES (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE)

    I. Ribera;G. N. Foster;I. S. Downie;D. I. Mccracken

  • Back to the future: rethinking socioecological systems underlying high nature value farmlands

    Angela Lomba;Francisco Moreira;Francisco Moreira;Sebastian Klimek;Robert H. G. Jongman

  • The Impact of Different Agricultural Land-uses on Epigeal Spider Diversity in Scotland

    I.S. Downie;W.L. Wilson;V.J. Abernethy;D.I. McCracken

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane M. Reid
Jane M. Reid University of Aberdeen
Pat Monaghan
Pat Monaghan University of Glasgow
Robert W. Furness
Robert W. Furness University of Glasgow
Dominic Moran
Dominic Moran University of Edinburgh
Ignacio Ribera
Ignacio Ribera Spanish National Research Council
David A. Elston
David A. Elston James Hutton Institute
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Darren M. Evans
Darren M. Evans Newcastle University
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robin J. Pakeman
Robin J. Pakeman James Hutton Institute

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