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Dr Martyn Stenning

Post:Associate (Ecology and Evolution)
Location:JMS BUILDING LASI
Email:M.J.Stenning@sussex.ac.uk

Biography

M.Phil. (Sussex) 1984 Population Regulation In The Pied Flycatcher Ficedula Hypoleuca Pallas.

D.Phil. (Sussex) 1995. Hatching Asynchrony In A Population Of Blue Tits Parus Caeruleus Prazak. 

Teaching and research technician/tutor from 1976 to 2015.  Subjects include research on the control of shistosomosis using the tropical aquatic snail hosts.  Downland turf biodiversity, bird population biology, freshwater biodiversity, plant physilogy, drosophila genotype management.

Tutor with Centre for Continuing Eucation from 1995 to 2011 teaching Ornithology & Ecology.

Tutor for Biochemistry from 2006 to 2010.

Technical services co-ordinator with Biology and Environmental Sciences in the School of Life Sciences from 2003 to 2015.

South Downs Forum - University of Sussex Representative 2000 - 2005.

UK Controled Environment Users Group - University of Sussex Representative 2003 - 2015.

Energy and Environment Representative (Tzar) for Life Sciences 2000 - 2015.

Environmental Award from Wealden District Council 2028.

Warden (volunteer) for Castle Hill National Nature Reserve 1980 to Present (University co-ordinator).

Warden (Volunteer) for Woodland Trust Lake Wood 1990 to present (university co-ordinator).

Semi-retired Associate of Life Sciences June 2015 to present.

 Selected publications:

Hatching asynchrony, brood reduction and other rapidly reproducing hypotheses

MJ Stenning

Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11 (6), 243-246 1996.
 
Individual variation in seasonal breeding success of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca)
PH Harvey, MJ Stenning, B Campbell
The Journal of Animal Ecology, 391-398 1985.
 
Searching for density-dependent regulation in a population of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca Pallas
MJ Stenning, PH Harvey, B Campbell
The Journal of Animal Ecology, 307-317 1988.
 
Factors influencing reproductive success in the pied flycatcher
PH Harvey, MJ Stenning, B Campbell
Chapter in Reproductive Success edited by T. H. Clutton-Brock 1988. University of Chicago Press.
 
The Blue Tit
M Stenning
Bloomsbury Publishing 2018.
 
Hatching asynchrony and brood reduction in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus may be a plastic response to local oak Quercus robur bud burst and caterpillar emergence
MJ Stenning
Acta Ornithologica 43 (1), 97-106 2008.

Role

I am now a semi-retired Associate. Occasionally tutoring students in ornithology, conservation and ecology, and demonstrating techniques to students.  Occasional lecturing.  I am currently engaged in scientific writing and a bit of ecological research.

Community and Business

Environmental Award (Wealden District Council) 2008

Co-ordinating (voluntary) Warden for Lake Wood (Woodland Trust) Nature Reserve from 1994.

http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/our-woods/Pages/wood-details.aspx?wood=4523

Uckfield Town Councillor from 1996 to 2001.

Chairman of West Park Local Nature Reserve Committee from 1998 to 2015.

http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=14&N=west park&ID=559

Chairman of Hempstead Meadow Local Nature Reserve Committee from 2002 to 2015.

http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=14&N=hempstead meadow&ID=858

Chairman Lime-Aid since 2005, a committee dedicated to preserving Lime Tree Avenue, Uckfield.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3001351

Give talks to local Organisations on Ornithology and Ecology

Committee member Uckfield & District Twinning Association.

Helped to run a 24 consecutive years programme of International Youth Camps from 1990 - 2014.