Hayleigh Pogmore
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I am a climate change ecologist dedicated to advancing biodiversity conservation in the face of anthropogenic pressures and global warming. My current research explores nature-based solutions to mitigate thermal stress in freshwater ecosystems, with a particular focus on enhancing ecological resilience through riparian shading. Particularly, I will be looking at changes in food-web structure along a forest-cover gradient, and how this may be change under future climate scenarios. Alongside this, I have a deep interest in mycology and am investigating the transformative roles fungi may play in driving and indicating ecosystem change.
Qualifications
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BSc Biological Sciences University of Exeter (2025)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Nature-based solutions to warming impacts on river ecosystems
Riparian forest cover regulates river ecosystem structure and function, especially under climate warming. This project examines how riparian shading affects physicochemical conditions, biodiversity, and food-web dynamics in the Cantabrian Mountains. It assesses aquatic hyphomycete biomass and trophic shifts, using modelling to predict thermal mitigation and guide adaptive conservation strategies.
Supervisor: Eoin O'Gorman