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Master of Philosophy thesis

• Potential movement of mountain vegetation zones in Scotland under predicted climatic change. A thesis presented for the degree of Master of Philosophy.
• Preface to Thesis
• Thesis Chapter 1 Introduction: Evidence for climatic shifts in mountain vegetation etc.
• Thesis Chapter 2 Potential for plants to move in a changing climate - A study of mountain vegetation and seed dispersal.
• Thesis Chapter 3 Effects of environmental manipulation of local climate on plant interaction.
• Thesis Chapter 4 Discussion.
• Appendix to Thesis
• My Other Publications

the ubiquitous blog

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  • Cycling
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  • Environment and Ecology
  • Odds & Sods
  • Politics

• Posts:

  • Half bike problem – gathering the bits
  • Trivial fact for today: No. 4
  • New pedals
  • Trivial fact for today: No. 3
  • Another new set of wheels
  • Waiting for the Triffids
  • Half bike problem (again)
  • First bat of the year 2024
  • PeerTube test
  • Guten Rutsch!
  • Some thoughts on cycle route signage
  • The World’s Largest Landowners
  • Testing security
  • Good night Vienna and a Nightingale sang at Laxenburg Bahnhof
  • Inn beaver update
  • First bat of the year 2023
  • How to type a degree symbol ° in Linux
  • Beavering down the Inn
  • Now on Mastodon
  • A time to come and a time to go
  • City of Edinburgh Councillors and twitter: 2022
  • The annual painting of Salisbury Crags
  • First bat of the year 2022
  • To EuroBike and Back: a continental journey (part 4) Bludenz to Friedrichshafen
  • Octopus Energy and GB News
  • Phone call from “Microsoft”
  • First bat sighting of 2021
  • The Climate clock is ticking
  • Road safety and the definition of insanity
  • To EuroBike and Back: a continental journey (part 3) Arnhem to Austria
  • City of Edinburgh Councillors and twitter: 2020
  • First bat of 2020
  • Quick though about time in quarantine
  • To EuroBike and Back: a continental journey (part 2) Utrecht – Hoge Veluwe – Arnhem
  • To EuroBike and Back: a continental journey (part 1) Ijmuiden – Amsterdam – Utrechtpost name
  • Happy 2019!
  • How to undermine a Bill with loopholes
  • Call for a pavement parking ban in Scotland
  • And finally, the 1st bat of the year
  • From Montecatini to the Marsh Land of Fucecchio (MTB tour day two)
  • Tuscany calling, an MTB tour (day one)
  • Not so slow tour of Milan (part 2)
  • Not so slow tour of Milan (part 1)
  • The Edinburgh Festival of Cycling 2016 is coming
  • Asking the candidates where stand on Active Travel
  • Pending Tax Refund?
  • The Edinburgh Cycle Challenge
  • Let Scotland lead the rest of the UK by moving to presumed liability for vulnerable road users
  • The politics of cycle clothing
  • The Volkswagen scandal \u2013 who has really been harmed?
  • First Bat of year 2015
  • Katie rides to School
  • Why 20mph is plenty for Edinburgh (and other places)
  • Vote For Edinburgh: MONOPOLY Here and Now
  • How one simple thing changed my life
  • A Quick chance for more cycle cash in Scotland?
  • What do horses say? Hello
  • Pesticides and reporting on the EU
  • And finally...
  • Cycle parking, things are finally moving on...
  • Wow!
  • Getting inspiration from Dublin
  • Cyclists must help themselves?
  • "Motorists and cyclists should both live up to their responsibilities" a reply
  • Keep active, keep healthy
  • Do cyclists really need more insurance?
  • So you want to start a festival of cycling?
  • Trivial fact for today: No. 2
  • Riding the flying bathtub
  • Some public bike hire schemes in Europe
  • Cycling is not dangerous \u2013 it\u2019s bad driving
  • A sunny cycle to Seton
  • Why we need #PoP2014
  • First bat of 2014
  • Earth Hour 2014
  • Beware the Companies House e-mail
  • It really is time to put the brakes on climate change
  • What is Bicycle Travel?
  • Every Kilometre Cycled Benefits Society
  • Absam the village of the Olympians?
  • The use of the roads and moral hazard
  • It is time to stop the killing on our roads
  • Night Ride along Hadrian\u2019s Wall
  • Grow Wild Update
  • The real problems created with increasing liability for drivers?
  • In support of Motion S4M-07934 on Strict Liability
  • Grow Wild
  • A short ride around an inland sea
  • Once more onto Freiburg
  • A short walk on the Emperor's Chair
  • Notes on a short tour on the mainland of Europe
  • Finally 20 mph limit to go ahead across Edinburgh
  • An open letter on the Nice Way Code
  • Time to end the myth of road tax
  • Thoughts on the Ghost Bikes
  • Onus should be on the cyclists?
  • Comment spammer offers to help you with spam
  • Denmark's Bicycle Ambassador to present keynote talk to the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling
  • After PoP what next?
  • It's not far, so leave the car.
  • It is time to stop the victim blaming!
  • Strict Liability and the Road Share campaign
  • Always backup before carrying out maintenance or changes
  • Proposed parking experiment in Edinburgh
  • A wish ye were here...
  • Biking in Amsterdam
  • An open letter to my MSPs
  • Where did Spring go?
  • A cycle bloggers conference?
  • Hints of Spring
  • A solution to the ASL problem?
  • Pedal on Parliament II, launched
  • Pedal on Parliament, let's do it again
  • Return of the Tri
  • Happy New Year!!
  • Dutch cycle infrastructure and what we can learn
  • How much space should you give a cyclist when overtaking?
  • A winter light over Craigmillar
  • The QBC to Leith Walk, where did it all go wrong?
  • World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2012
  • Shutting the stable door, thoughts on ash dieback and other pathogens
  • The BBC and the myth of "road tax"
  • Open letter to MSPs on Active Travel
  • Gifford for lunch?
  • Cycle parking in Edinburgh, where have we got to?
  • Beware Notice of Tax Return e-mail
  • Get the right mix
  • Will we get a Golden Legacy?
  • Down Dumfriesshire way (Part 2)
  • Down Dumfriesshire way (Part 1)
  • High-viz vests a must for cyclists?
  • Cyclorama #1
  • Thoughts on the A9
  • A few images of the "Quality Bike Corridor" Edinburgh
  • Thoughts on the Quality Bike Corridor
  • What are 20mph speed limit for?
  • City of Edinburgh Councillors and twitter: Updated
  • Little and large: a short story...
  • How we came to Pedal on Parliament
  • Only days to go before the Pedal on Parliament: time for action!
  • Of on street parking and bus/cycle lanes
  • British cycling success comes at a price
  • Thoughts on the Spokes Hustings
  • First bats of the year
  • Rattling cages
  • An accidental revolution
  • The strange case of the Kilt Maker, the Scientist and the Air Pollutant
  • A proposed Eight point manifesto for safer cycling
  • City of Edinburgh Councillors who Blog
  • City of Edinburgh Councillors and twitter
  • A message to Edinburgh Councillors on 2012/13 transport budget [Final update]
  • Pre budget letter to list MSPs and replies
  • An open letter to Alex Salmond MSP on active travel
  • How do you get more people to ride bicycles
  • The Cargo Bike Club idea revisited
  • A Saturday in January
  • A storm in December
  • First snow of winter
  • Edinburgh in November
  • A new set of wheels
  • Shopping: a reply
  • An open letter to Marco Biagi MSP
  • World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2011
  • Alpine Cycle Chic part 2: Bozen/Bolzano
  • Alpine Cycle Chic part 1: Innsbruck
  • How the Dutch got their cycle paths
  • Bringing home the pumpkin harvest\u2026 2011
  • Introducing the Dutch Cycling Embassy
  • Look! No hands...
  • Trivial fact for today: No. 1
  • The UN Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020
  • Whither the ozone hole?
  • Changing times for the Cycling Tourism
  • On yer bike... words from Will Self
  • Re-visited
  • Edinburgh in August
  • Should wearing cycle helmets be compulsory?
  • James Cracknell and the cycle helmet company
  • Edinburgh 20 mph speed limit zone gets the go-ahead
  • The Mayor of Vilnius find solution to cars parked in cycle lanes
  • Say no to ridiculous car trips
  • Edinburgh in July
  • Slowed down...
  • An evening in July
  • The way back from Broughton
  • Dog leg to Broughton
  • Unicyclists in Edinburgh
  • Which would be more like to get you to ride?
  • Edinburgh in June
  • Strange voice in the early morning
  • More on Edinburgh\u2019s proposed 20mph speed limit
  • Bicycle Polo in Festival Square, Edinburgh
  • Yehuda Moon Cartoons
  • Life is more beautiful by bicycle
  • Another climate science rap
  • The Sacred Driving Licence
  • Something about bicycle lanes, strict liability etc.
  • Tax Refund Notification
  • Tay to the Clyde - Part 3: Aberfoyle to Glasgow
  • Tay to the Clyde - Part 2: Killin to Aberfoyle
  • Tay to the Clyde - Part 1: Perth to Killin
  • Fear, loathing, and cycle campaigning
  • What's the story with Nitrogen?
  • Climate Change: breaking the barriers to a low-carbon Scotland
  • Climate Week. 21-27 March 2011
  • Manifesto suggestions for active travel revisited
  • Fairness and liability on the roads: part 3
  • Fairness and liability on the roads: part 2
  • Fairness and liability on the roads
  • The things the car ads forget to show
  • Complaint to the BBC
  • Normal service resumed
  • Are cyclist at greater risk from air pollution?
  • A Saturday in January
  • Cycling Sucks
  • A modest proposal
  • Escape to the Pentlands (again)
  • Happy New Year!
  • Time for change?
  • Ski touring Arthur's Seat
  • Cycling and the culture of fear, don't panic!
  • It had to be done...
  • Cargo bike culture?
  • Are our streets for people?
  • World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
  • 20mph speed limit proposals - South Edinburgh
  • Mapping cycling routes
  • Isn't it time to end the Taliban approach to road safety?
  • 300 Years of fossil fuelled growth in 5 minutes
  • New Idea: the Cargo Bike Club
  • Bringing home the harvest\u2026 (part 2) the BIG pumpkin
  • Phone call from the "Technical Department of Windows"
  • Bike build project (part 6): Finishing off and finally riding the thing!
  • Dreaming of Brocken spectre spotting
  • BotSoc winter lecture programme
  • More on cycle parking...
  • Blasted back from Duns
  • Great Grey Shrike in Edinburgh?
  • Spinning down to Duns
  • Bike build project (part 5): Putting it all together
  • Robin Hood Tax, anyone?
  • Bike build project (part 4): Buying the bits
  • Arthur's Seat Challenge II
  • Bike build project (part 3): A new set of wheels
  • Coasts and Castles, a ride along the NCN1/76 (Part 3): Dunbar to Edinburgh
  • Coasts and Castles, a ride along the NCN1 (Part 2): Fenwick to Dunbar
  • Coasts and Castles, a ride along the NCN1 (Part 1): Alnmouth to Fenwick
  • Bike build project (part 2): Gathering bits
  • New Edinburgh Wildlife Website
  • Flattened by flu
  • Bimbling through the Borders (Pt 2) - Galashiels to Edinburgh
  • Bimbling through the Borders (Pt 1) - Berwick to Galashiels
  • Gadding down to Gladhouse
  • First bird to sing
  • Bumbling about Bute - Day 1
  • Bumbling about Bute - Day 2
  • Bumbling about Bute - Day 3
  • Crisscrossing in the Lothians
  • Bike build project (part 1): One and a half bikes
  • New Bot Soc web site open for business
  • A storm in a tea cup over climatic change
  • Evicting squatters
  • Spinning earth plugin
  • More junk mail
  • Deer in Scotland, part 2
  • Manifesto suggestions for active travel
  • Cycle parking, please can we have more... part2
  • Leithers sign the Pledge ...
  • Some thoughts on cycling safety
  • Electoral reform, what are they afraid of?
  • Google Chrome
  • Of tram tracks and cyclists
  • A question for the climate sceptics
  • Project Honey Pot receives its 1 billionth spam message
  • Climate Change Rap
  • How green is your daily journey?
  • Your views wanted on Active Travel
  • Bright lights for dark nights
  • The Koala climbs
  • Give cyclists room
  • Eight days to go...
  • Thanks Microsfoft, that is another good reason to use Linux!
  • Two firsts today
  • Caption contest
  • You don't pay tax...
  • Cycle parking, please can we have more...
  • Ötztaler Cycle Marathon
  • Death on the road
  • Edinburgh is the best place to live in Britain!
  • Playing Russian Roulette at Il Positano
  • Personal Computer World RIP
  • Edinburgh St Andrews Bike Ride 2009
  • Over the hills from Bathgate
  • Back from the Border
  • A gentle breeze to the Border
  • Once more into the Lothians
  • Are you sitting comfortably?
  • A short walk in the Lammermuirs
  • First bat of the year
  • A Spring breeze through East Lothian
  • Cycle helmets
  • Some recent software experiences
  • New biking toys
  • Happy New Year...
  • More about lights...
  • Shine on you crazy ruby...!
  • Tales of the Tirol, part 2: Into the Karwendel
  • Tales of the Tirol, part 1: a short ride to Fallbach
  • Let there be light
  • Friday blues...
  • Why no posts?
  • Firefox 3 Released
  • What a way to spend a Wednesday...
  • Firefox 3 is coming
  • Cycle Round Arran (Part 2)
  • Machrie Moor Circuit
  • Cycle Round Arran (Part 1)
  • Cycle hire in Edinburgh
  • Balerno or bust
  • One swallow
  • Looking longingly at maps
  • Junk mail
  • Persian carpet, part 2
  • What's the hurry?
  • Is it that time of year again, already!
  • Arthur's Seat Challenge
  • Cycle, lights, action...
  • House move
  • T de F
  • Cycle touring is now fashionable
  • Roads are for cars!??
  • Bloggers Block
  • Interest rates
  • Flickr whips a storm
  • Random quote
  • Who is Kim Harding?
  • Firefox increasingly popular across Europe
  • Clipless moment
  • Escape to the Pentlands
  • The morning after the day before
  • A short pedal in the Trossachs
  • Dell preload Linux
  • Slave to the machine
  • Lets cycle around an island
  • Food waste and climate change
  • Near clipless moment
  • House hunting in Edinburgh
  • The illusion of Freedom
  • The Mozilla Manifesto
  • Blog move
  • Heavy Snow
  • Apologies for interruption in service
  • What ever happened to Acid Rain?
  • Firefox 2 wins wins Best software
  • Frustrated skier
  • Welcome Daniel Dragosits
  • Gone skiing
  • Cycling in high winds
  • Blogless
  • Clipless
  • New cycling toy (part 2)
  • New cycling
  • Edinburgh Hogmanay
  • On cycle commuting
  • Winter is here...
  • Persian carpet
  • Browser security
  • Germans bring fish market to Aberdeen
  • Congratulations to Meg and Ken on their wedding.
  • Countries which I have visited...
  • Green Taxes
  • Deer in Scotland
  • First post

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