New Survey of Clare Island Volume 10: Land and freshwater fauna
Book Details
Published by Royal Irish Academy
September 2022
PaperbackNumber of pages: 250
ISBN: 9781911479871
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This volume, the final in the New Survey of Clare Island series, comprises an interesting collection of papers describing a diverse range of invertebrate and vertebrate taxa found on the island, including ostracods, molluscs, spiders and mammals. As we move through the Anthropocene with its many facets of global change, it is important that we understand what is happening to biodiversity in Ireland. The contributions in this volume, which are interspersed with nuggets of ecological theory and descriptions of the life history of the many species found on Clare Island, provide strong evidence of the need for increased investment in studies of Irish biodiversity.
The Royal Irish Academy’s New Survey of Clare Island, a unique multidisciplinary endeavour that together with Robert Lloyd Praeger’s first Clare Island Survey provides an invaluable body of research informing future conservation of natural and built heritage of Ireland and Europe. The first Clare Island Survey of 1909–11 was the most ambitious natural history project ever undertaken in Ireland and the first major biological survey of a specific area carried out in the world.
About the authors
John Breen
John Breen obtained his BSc in zoology followed by a PhD in social insect ecology at University College Cork (National University of Ireland). He spent a year studying bumblebees and ants at the Zoological Museum, University of Bergen, Norway, followed by a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin, before taking up a position at the University of Limerick. He is a retired Associate Professor. His main research interests are in the ecology of Irish social insects and, more recently, beekeeping.
T.K. McCarthy
T.K. (Kieran) McCarthy (1949-2019) graduated from University College Cork, with a first-class honours’ degree in zoology in 1971 and a PhD on the Irish freshwater Hirudinea (leeches) in 1974. Following post-doctoral research in Oxford, Finland, and Dublin, he was appointed to the Zoology Department, N.U.I., Galway. Throughout his career, and after retirement in 2011, he continued his research on a variety of aspects of freshwater ecology (limnology, entomology, fish parasitology and biogeography) and especially on European eels. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Łodz, Poland, and University of Tokyo, Japan.
Éamonn Lenihan
Éamonn Lenihan is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Natural Sciences at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). He obtained his PhD in Zoology in 2020 from NUIG. His research focuses on the ecology and conservation of the critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in hydropower impacted rivers, but he is also interested in the migration dynamics of other diadromous fish species.
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Clare Island Survey research featured at the Venice Biennale
Ireland’s exhibition at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale was opened today by Minister Patrick O’Donovan, T.D. Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. The Venice Architecture Biennale will be open to the public from tomorrow, Saturday, 20 May and will run until Sunday, 26 November 2023.
Celebration of the New Survey of Clare Island
On Saturday 3 September, up to 90 guests attended an afternoon of events on Clare Island to celebrate the New Survey of CIare Island series.
The completion of the New Survey of Clare Island
John Feehan reflects on the impact of the Clare Island surveys
