
Hayley CraigUniversity of Portsmouth · Institute of Marine Sciences
Hayley Craig
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July 2020 - December 2022
NatureMetrics
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- Senior eDNA Product Manager
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- Led a team to develop DNA-based biodiversity monitoring products and delivered bespoke projects for a range of clients
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Soil microbial communities play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning, but it is unknown
how co-occurrence networks within these communities respond to disturbances such as
climate extremes. This represents an important knowledge gap because changes in microbial
networks could have implications for their functioning and vulnerability to future di...
Diversity among species and genetic diversity within species are both important components of ecological communities that can determine the outcome of species interactions, especially between hosts and parasites. We sought to understand the impact of species diversity on host community resistance to infection by a keystone parasitic plant (Rhinanth...
Better-informed mangrove conservation and management practices are needed as the ecosystem services provided by these intertidal forests continue to be threatened by increasing anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Multiple layers of knowledge are required to achieve this goal, including insights into population genetics of mangrove species....
Loss of plant biodiversity can result in reduced abundance and diversity of associated species with implications for ecosystem functioning. In ecosystems low in plant
species diversity, such as Neotropical mangrove forests, it is thought that genetic
diversity within the dominant plant species could play an important role in shaping associated comm...
Mangrove ecosystems are important for carbon storage due to their high productivity and low decomposition rates. Waterways have experienced increased nutrient loads as a result of anthropogenic activities and it is unclear how this may affect carbon and nutrient cycles in downstream mangroves that receive these nutrient-rich waters. Using a laborat...
A project set up to inform and unlock the potential for Scotland to implement environmental DNA (eDNA) methods for biodiversity monitoring and reporting purposes. This Summary Brief highlights the project's key findings, learning opportunities, remaining knowledge gaps, and future perspectives to consider when using eDNA-based approaches for biodiv...
Biodiversity loss is widely recognised as one of the most urgent global challenges to be addressed in the next decade. The Scottish Biodiversity Strategy sets out a clear ambition to be Nature Positive by 2030, and to have restored and regenerated biodiversity across the country by 2045 (Scottish Government 2022). To protect, restore, and regenerat...
The Phase 2 Technical Appendices presented here contains supplementary information, such as additional data analyses that were either not essential or too lengthy to be included in the core deliverable (Phase 2 Main Report) output. This includes extra data that has been analysed and underpins the results/discussion (whether they are fruitful or oth...
• Reduced oxygen increased microbial metabolic quotient (qCO2).• Reduced oxygen enhanced microbial specific C-, N- and P-acquiring enzyme activity.• Reduced oxygen increased microbial C relative to N and P limitation. • Reduced oxygen increased microbial N relative to P limitation. • Specific enzyme activity was positively related to qCO2 under red...
Biodiversity loss is widely recognised as one of the most urgent global challenges to be addressed in the next decade. One element of the Global Biodiversity Framework is the 30x30 target, which aims to protect 30% of the planet for nature by 2030. Committed countries are expected to contribute to this global goal through domestic action to increas...
This report represents Phase 1 of the project ‘Developing habitat scale DNA monitoring in support post 2020 biodiversity reporting requirements’ funded by the Scottish Government (Reference: NMP/001/20). The overall project aims to investigate and test the applicability of DNA-based approaches for biodiversity assessment and reporting purposes. In...
We used genotyping-by-sequencing to investigate the evolutionary history of bere, the oldest barley variety still cultivated in Britain and possibly in all of Europe. With a panel of 203 wild and 401 cultivated barley accessions, including 35 samples identified as bere, we obtained filtered datasets comprising up to 1,946,469 single nucleotide poly...
Rising sea levels are expected to cause salinization in many historically low‐salinity tidal wetlands. However, the response of soil extracellular enzyme activities to salinization in tidal wetlands and their links to soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition are largely unknown. Here, we conducted a global meta‐analysis to examine the effect of sali...
Natural England (NE) and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) commissioned NatureMetrics to produce a review and protocol for DNA-based marine benthic sampling. This was in the context of DNA metabarcoding and long-term monitoring of benthic species and habitats of conservation importance in UK Marine Protected Areas. For the same benthic...
The purpose of this document is to provide a standard protocol for collection and preservation of samples from the subtidal benthic environment for DNA analysis. This is with a particular focus on statutory monitoring of benthic species and habitats of conservation importance.
Objective: The objective of this study was to develop additional microsatellite primers for the mangrove tree species Avicennia germinans that work in multiplex PCR panels to enable cost effective population analyses of this species at a finer scale.
Results: Primer sets were identified from whole genome sequencing data and combined into multiplex...
To the Editor — In their recent Correspondence 1 about our study showing that there were three origins of Asian rice 2 , Huang and Han suggest that the methodology that we used to infer multiple domestications was flawed as it did not take account of the strong genetic bottleneck in japonica .
Domesticated rice (Oryza sativa L.) accompanied the dawn of Asian civilization1 and has become one of world's staple crops. From archaeological and genetic evidence various contradictory scenarios for the origin of different varieties of cultivated rice have been proposed, the most recent based on a single domestication2,3. By examining the footpri...