Department of Conservation Biology

Running projects



Curriculum Vitae

Since 2024 Branco-Weiss Fellow
Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen

2022–2024 Schmidt Science Fellow
Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation Group, IIASA (with Dr Piero Visconti) & SILVIS lab,
University of Wisconsin-Madison (with Professor Volker Radeloff)

2017–2021 PhD Global Change Ecology
University of Edinburgh. Supervisors: Dr Isla Myers-Smith, Dr Maria Dornelas, Dr Anne Bjorkman

2014–2015 International Exchange Programme
University of Queensland

2012–2016 BSc Ecology and Environmental Science
University of Edinburgh


Teaching
M.INC. 1006 Data analysis for field biologists


Publications

Google scholar
ORCID

2024

Dragonetti, C., Daskalova, G.N., & Di Marco, M. 2024. The exposure of the world’s mountains to global change drivers. iScience 27: 109734 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109734

Elphinstone, C., Hernández, F., Todesco, M., Légaré, J. S., Cheung, W., Sokoloff, P. C., ..., Daskalova, G.N., … & Rieseberg, L. H. 2024. Multiple Pleistocene refugia for Arctic Bell‐Heather revealed with genomic analyses of modern and historic plants. Journal of Biogeography 10: 1958– 1973. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14961

2023

Daskalova, G. N., Kamp, J. 2023. Abandoning land transforms biodiversity. Science 380: 581–583. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf1099

Dornelas, M., Chase, J. M., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A. E., McGill, B. J., Antão, L. H., Blowes, S. A., Daskalova, G.N., Leung, B., Martins, I.S., Moyes, F., Myers-Smith, I., Thomas C.D. & Vellend, M. 2023. Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20220199. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0199

Gallois, E. C., Myers‐Smith, I. H., Daskalova, G. N., Kerby, J. T., Thomas, H. J., & Cunliffe, A. M. 2023. Summer litter decomposition is moderated by scale‐dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems. Oikos 2023: e10261. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10261

Martins, I. S., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., ..., Daskalova G.N., … & Dornelas, M. 2023. Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages. Science 381:1067–1071. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg6006

Riva, F., Graco-Roza, C., Daskalova, G. N., Hudgins, E. J., Lewthwaite, J. M., Newman, E. A., Ryo, M. & Mammola, S. 2023. Toward a cohesive understanding of ecological complexity. Science Advances 9: eabq4207. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq4207

2022

Blowes, S. A., Daskalova, G. N., Dornelas, M., Engel, T., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A. E., ... & Chase, J. M. 2022. Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness. Ecology 103: e3820. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3820

Lembrechts, J.L., …, Daskalova, G.N., et al. 2022. Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28: 3110–3144. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060

Staude, I.R., Pereira, H.M., Daskalova, G.N., et al. 2022. Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats. Ecology Letters 25: 466–482. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13937

2021

Daskalova, G.N., Myers-Smith, I.H., Phillimore, A.B. 2021. Accounting for year effects and sampling error in temporal analyses of population and biodiversity change - Response to Seibold et al. 2019 “Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers”. Insect Conservation and Diversity 14:149–154. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12468

Palmer, B., Valentine, L., Lohr, C., Daskalova, G.N., Hobbs, R. 2021. Burrowing by translocated boodies (B. lesueur) alters soils but has limited effects on vegetation. Ecology and Evolution 11: 2596-2615, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7218

2020

Daskalova, G.N., Myers-Smith, I.H., Bjorkman, A.D., Blowes, S.A., Supp, S.R., Magurran, A.E., & Dornelas, M. 2020. Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change. Science 368:1341-1347. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba1289

Daskalova, G.N., Myers-Smith, I.H., Godlee, J.L. 2020. Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends. Nature Communications 11:4394. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17779-0

Dornelas, M., & Daskalova, G.N. 2020. Nuanced changes in insect abundance. Science 368: 368–369. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb6861

Assmann, J.J., Myers-Smith, I.H., Kerby, J. T., Cunliffe, A.M., Daskalova, G.N. 2020. Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites. Environmental Research Letters 15: 125002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbf7d

Cunliffe, A.M., Assmann, J.J., Daskalova, G.N., Kerby, J.T., & Myers-Smith, I.H. 2020. Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape. Environmental Research Letters 15: 125004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba470

Lembrechts, J.J., … Daskalova, G.N., … & García, R.A. 2020. SoilTemp: a global database of near‐surface temperature. Global Change Biology 26:6616–6629. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123

2019

Daskalova, G.N., Phillimore, A.B., Bell, M., Maggs, H., Perkins, A. J. 2019. Population responses of farmland bird species to agri‐environment schemes and land management options in Northeastern Scotland. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:640–650. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13309

Myers-Smith, I.H., Grabowski, M., Thomas, H., Angers-Blondin, S., Daskalova, G.N., et al. 2019. Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change. Ecological Monographs 89:e01351. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1351