Completed Research Projects

• Assessment of agri-environment schemes: the Agri-Environmental Footprint Index (AE-Footprint)
• An evaluation of existing and potential measures to sustain an increased biodiversity and water quality on Irish farms.
• BurrenLIFE: delivering for farming and wildlife.
• Creating and enhancing farmland habitats: a review of options and evidence
• Estimating the environmental performance of agri-environment schemes (ITAES)
• Factors affecting dung decomposition in agricultural systems
• Identification of High Nature Value (HNV) farmland on lowland farms in East County Galway, Western Ireland
• Inhibitory effect of barley straw on algal growth
• Mapping the broad habitats of the Burren using satellite imagery (2005)
• Monitoring the environmental impacts of the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme: a scoping study
• Plant diversity in agricultural grasslands – a sustainable adaptation option to climate change?