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Saorla Kavanagh

Research Officer - Farmland Biodiversity

Research Interests

  • Pollinator conservation and ecology
  • Landscape ecology
  • Regenerative agriculture
  • Agri-environment policy
  • Citizen science

Education

PhD “Honey chemical constituents from apiaries in different landscapes in Ireland”, Dublin City University.

BA Botany, Trinity College Dublin.

BSc Horticulture Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown.

Higher Certificate in Applied Chemistry, Institute of Technology, Tallaght.

Professional Membership

Royal Entomological Society

BurrenBeo Trust

Peer reviewed publications

Globalisation and pollinators: Pollinator declines are an economic threat to global food systems. JT Murphy, TD Breeze, B Willcox, S Kavanagh, JC Stout. People and Nature 4 (3), 773-785, 2022

Neonicotinoid residues in honey from urban and rural environments (pdf)

S Kavanagh, M Henry, JC Stout, B White. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, 28179-28190, 2021

Physicochemical properties and phenolic content of honey from different floral origins and from rural versus urban landscapes

S Kavanagh, J Gunnoo, TM Passos, JC Stout, B White. Food chemistry 272, 66-75, 2019

Assessing market and non-market values of pollination services in Ireland (pdf) (Pollival)

JC Stout, JT Murphy, S Kavanagh. Environmental Protection Agency Research Report, Johnstown Castle, Co …, 2019

Protecting Farmland Pollinators: Whole Farm Scorecard - Experiences and Recommendations S Kavanagh, N Phelan, N Rodriguez-Gasol, S O’ Brien, JC Stout. Ú Fitzpatrick. Journal of Pollination Ecology In Review

Non-peer reviewed publications

Kavanagh, S, Špulerová, J, Kernecker, ML, Stover, D, Kirchweger, S Robles, JF 2023. Managing High Diversity Landscape Features (HDLF) for pollinators. (pdf) 

EU CAP Network Focus Group (FG) on High-Diversity Landscape Features (HDLF) 2023 Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features. (pdf) 

Kavanagh S 2022 Protecting Farmland Pollinators midterm report. (pdf) 

Becket, O and Kavanagh, S 2022 Farmer Moth Monitoring EIP Project Report. (pdf)