Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science
Paul.Lintott@uwe.ac.uk
Research interests: Bats; Biodiversity & human health & wellbeing; Landscape-scale conservation; Urban Ecology.
My research focus is on investigating how modern challenges, such as urban expansion, persecution, and noise pollution impact wildlife. Much of my work involves close interaction with ecological practitioners, with the aim of creating practical and sustainable solutions to human – wildlife interactions.
Recent work includes leading research on sexual segregation in bats within fragmented woodlands, assessing how biodiverse soundscapes impact human health and wellbeing, and understanding the impact of music festivals on wildlife populations.
I have worked on large conservation projects including the National Bats and Wind Turbines project which undertook the the first assessment of the risks to bat populations from wind turbines in Great Britain. We used these results, in collaboration with the Statutory Nature Conservation Organisations, Bat Conservation Trust, and wind energy developers, to produce new guidance for the surveying of commercial wind farms. I have worked with the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) to assess the effectiveness of bat mitigation in buildings.
I supervise several PhD researchers looking at a range of conservation topics including how beaver presence impacts wider biodiversity, identifying effective lighting strategies for tunnels occupied by bats, and the use of eDNA to understand bat occupancy of caves.
Publications
Hooker, J., Daley, E., Stone, E. and Lintott, P., 2023. Assessing the impact of festival music on bat activity. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4(2), p.e12250.
Foxley, T., Lintott, P. and Stone, E. (2023) What drives bat activity at field boundaries? Journal of Environmental Management. 329 pp. 117029.
Fialas, P.C., Gilmour, L.R., Vickress, S., Underwood, E., Williams, C.A., Miller, H. and Lintott, P.R., 2022. Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape. Ecology and evolution, 12(10), p.e9350.
Hooker, J., Lintott, P. and Stone, E., 2022. Lighting up our waterways: Impacts of a current mitigation strategy on riparian bats. Environmental Pollution, p.119552.
Richardson, S.M., Lintott, P.R., Hosken, D.J., Economou, T. and Mathews, F., 2021. Peaks in bat activity at turbines and the implications for mitigating the impact of wind energy developments on bats. Scientific Reports, 11(1), pp.1-6.
Lintott, P. and Douglas, I., 2020. Habitat heterogeneity in suburbia: The importance of the urban mosaic. In The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology (pp. 289-302). Routledge.
Lintott, C. and Lintott, P., 2020. Satellite megaclusters could fox night-time migrations. Nature, 586(7831), pp.674-675.
Richardson, S.M., Lintott, P.R., Hosken, D.J. and Mathews, F., 2019. An evidence-based approach to specifying survey effort in ecological assessments of bat activity. Biological Conservation, 231, pp.98-102.
Lintott, P. and Mathews, F., 2018. Reviewing the evidence on mitigation strategies for bats in buildings: informing best-practice for policy makers and practitioners. Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM).
Lintott, P.R., Davison, S., van Breda, J., Kubasiewicz, L., Dowse, D., Daisley, J., Haddy, E. and Mathews, F., 2018. Ecobat: An online resource to facilitate transparent, evidence‐based interpretation of bat activity data. Ecology and evolution, 8(2), pp.935-941.
Lintott, P.R. and Mathews, F., 2018. Basic mathematical errors may make ecological assessments unreliable. Biodiversity and conservation, 27(1), pp.265-267.
Kirkpatrick, L., Maher, S.J., Lopez, Z., Lintott, P.R., Bailey, S.A., Dent, D. and Park, K.J., 2017. Bat use of commercial coniferous plantations at multiple spatial scales: management and conservation implications. Biological Conservation, 206, pp.1-10.
Lintott, P.R., Barlow, K., Bunnefeld, N., Briggs, P., Gajas Roig, C. and Park, K.J., 2016. Differential responses of cryptic bat species to the urban landscape. Ecology and Evolution, 6(7), pp.2044-2052.
Mathews, F., Richardson, S. M., Lintott, P. R. & Hosken, D. 2016. Understanding the risk to European protected species (bats) at onshore wind turbine sites to inform risk management. Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Science and Research Projects. WC00753 Final Report (Phase 2).
Lintott, P.R., Richardson, S.M., Hosken, D.J., Fensome, S.A. and Mathews, F., 2016. Ecological impact assessments fail to reduce risk of bat casualties at wind farms. Current Biology, 26(21), pp.R1135-R1136.
Lintott, P.R., Bunnefeld, N. and Park, K.J., 2015. Opportunities for improving the foraging potential of urban waterways for bats. Biological Conservation, 191, pp.224-233.
Lintott, P.R., Bunnefeld, N., Minderman, J., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Mayhew, R.J., Olley, L. and Park, K.J., 2015. Differential responses to woodland character and landscape context by cryptic bats in urban environments. PLoS One, 10(5), p.e0126850.
Lintott, P.R., Bunnefeld, N., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Minderman, J., Mayhew, R.J., Olley, L. and Park, K.J., 2014. City life makes females fussy: sex differences in habitat use of temperate bats in urban areas. Royal Society Open Science, 1(3), p.140200.
Lintott, P.R., Bunnefeld, N., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Minderman, J., Blackmore, L.M., Goulson, D. and Park, K.J., 2014. Moth species richness, abundance and diversity in fragmented urban woodlands: implications for conservation and management strategies. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(11), pp.2875-2901.
Lintott, P.R., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Goulson, D. and Park, K.J., 2014. Testing the effectiveness of surveying techniques in determining bat community composition within woodland. Wildlife Research, 40(8), pp.675-684.