Student Research Leads the Way!

Our higher education students are now nearing completion of their studies for this year and many of the students are busy collecting data for their undergraduate dissertations. This is a terrific challenge for students who are faced with researching, planning, carrying out and then writing up their work in a 10,000 word document! Over the years the work has been so well received it has led to conference presentations and even publications and articles to be published to the wider scientific community.

This year the range of projects being undertaken is very diverse and reflects some very under-researched areas within agriculture and conservation. For the BSc Land Management course, here is a list of who is doing what so you can see what we mean:

Agriculture & Farming

• Affect of lamb breed on lambing success in England and Wales - Aileen
• Evaluation of one pass soil seed rape establishment using different drill types at Lamport Hall - Guy
• Use of bioelectrical impedance analysis to predict carcass traits in live lambs - Prosper
• Effectiveness of biofertilisers on the growth of winter wheat - Tom
• Use of e-technology in calculating the green area index for winter wheat - Nick
• Use of e-techonology in calculating the green area index of oil seed rape - Steve

Conservation and Ecology

• Open mosaic habitats and their associated Coleopteran assemblages - Carole
• A study of non-target wildlife species feeding from gamebird hoppers on intensively managed shoots - Dan
• RFID method for the spatial determination and tracking of harvest mice in the wild - David
• Impact of ride management on native butterfly assemblages in ancient woodlands - Jamie
• Effectivness of deer deterrants in influencing spatial distributions of free roaming deer in parkland and woodland - Jarvis
• Habitat preferences of marsh tits and blue tits at Monks Wood National Nature Reserve, Cambs - Lewis
• Ecological impact of muntjac deer on ancient woodlands and potential ecosystem services - Luke

To learn more about research in the Agriculture Subject Area, visit: http://www.moulton.ac.uk/the-college/research-at-moulton