Dr Katrina Davis
About
Dr Katrina Davis' recent and on-going research interfaces ecology, conservation biology, and economics to assess how social-ecological interactions affect conservation outcomes and human welfare.
Her research group (Marine Conservation Ecology and Management) combines data collected from fieldwork with quantitative tools, including population projection models, optimization, and discrete choice experiments and analytical methods, to address research questions in the following research themes:
- Population projections under diverse management and environmental states
- Fisheries-marine mammal interactions
- Spatially optimal marine management
- Evaluating and analysing social preferences for environmental management
Expertise
- Marine conservation biology
- Seals and other marine mammals – population dynamics and interactions with fisheries
- Sustainable fisheries
- Marine protected areas
- Marine human wildlife conflict
- Public values for the environment
Selected publications
- Managed culls mean extinction for a marine mammal population when combined with extreme climate impacts. Ecological Modelling, 473, 110122 (2022)
- A meta-analysis of operational interactions between pinnipeds and fisheries (preprint, 2022)
- Local disconnects in global discourses – the unintended consequences of marine mammal protection on small-scale fishers. Conservation Letters, e12835 (2021)
- The importance of future generations and conflict management in conservation. Conservation Science and Practice, e488 (2021)
- Using a residency index to estimate the economic value of coastal habitat provisioning services for commercially important fish species. Conservation Science and Practice, 3, e363 (2021)
- Integration of biophysical connectivity in the spatial optimization of coastal ecosystem services. Science of The Total Environment, 139367 (2020)
- Estimating the economic benefits and costs of highly-protected marine protected areas. Ecosphere, 10, e02879 (2019)
- Why are Fishers not Enforcing Their Marine User Rights? Environmental and Resource Economics, 67, 661-681 (2017)
Media experience
Dr Katrina Davis has media experience in print and broadcast including pre-recorded radio interviews and news coverage of research such as the coverage of research into saltmarsh regeneration in North Devon, which featured in BBC Farming Today and BBC News. Dr Davis also has experience contributing editorial such as this piece for The Conversation on Grey Seals.
Recent media work
Languages
English (native), Spanish (fluent), French (intermediate)