Profile

Biography

Piran White holds a Personal Chair and is Deputy Head of Department. He has been at York since 1995, when he was first appointed as a Lecturer. He has held visiting research posts at New South Wales Agriculture (Orange, Australia), AgResearch (Lincoln, New Zealand) and the University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand).  

Piran is Deputy Director of the NERC-funded Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability Directorate, a £13m research programme on ecosystem services. He was coordinator of the ESRC transdisciplinary seminar series on coastal wetland ecosystem services and he leads the University of York’s involvement in the Australian-based Co-operative Research Centre on Invasive Animals. 

He is Editor of Wildlife Research journal, and was formerly an Associate Editor of Journal of Animal Ecology. He has served on research assessment panels for the ESRC and NERC, and has acted as an external advisor for Defra and Natural England.

Recent funded research includes:

• NERC Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Sustainability (BESS) Directorate (2011-2017, NERC, £1.4m)
• Participatory action learning for the sustainable resource management (2009-2011, RELU, £75K)
• Strategies for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis (TB-STEP).  (2008-2012, European Union FP7, €2m)
• Coastal wetland ecosystem services (2007-2010, ESRC, £22K)
• Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) (2007-2012, Big Lottery Fund, £350K)
• Marine biodiversity-ecosystem processes under uncertain futures (2007-2010, NERC, £380K)

Please note that Piran's office has moved - he is now in V/X/030 in Grimston House

Career

• Personal chair and Deputy Head of Department, Environment Department, University of York
• Reader University of York, Environment Department
• PhD Bristol
• BSc East Anglia 

Research

Overview

Piran has a wide range of research interests focused on two main areas:

(1) wildlife ecology, management and disease; and

(2) biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services.

Current projects

Current Funded Projects

Current Research Students 

• Adam Hejnowicz (ESRC/NERC, October 2011) An ecosystem services-based approach to landscape management in the uplands.
• Katherine Simpson (Natural England, July 2010) An inventory of activities, disturbances and associated risks at the Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast European Marine Site.
• Laura Carter (EU WildTech, August 2010) Designing efficient surveillance strategies for wildlife disease.
• Sarah West (OPAL, January 2010). Evaluation of environmental education projects.
• Joana Cruz (FCT, Portugal, January 2010). Biodiversity conservation in eucalypt plantations in Portugal.
• Kirsty Hughes (Defra/SAC, September 2009). Transmission of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle.
• Catherine Lutton (ESRC/NERC studentship, October 2009). An integrative approach to the management of bovine TB in mixed livestock-wildlife host systems in Spain.
• Naomi Fox (SAC, March 2009). Climate change and disease risk.
• Jamie Prentice (EU TB-Step project, October 2008). Modelling the perturbation effect in the control of wildlife disease.
• John Tracey (Invasive Animals CRC, October 2008). Economic impacts of invasive birds in Australia.
• Joanne Hardstaff (EU TB-Step project, July 2008). Ecology and management of bovine TB in Europe.
• Sal Hobbs (OPAL project, July 2008). Community participation in biodiversity monitoring.
• Adriana Ford (Economic and Social Research Council and Invasive Animals CRC, 2007).  Community participation in deer management in Australia. 
• James Milner (Commonwealth Scholarship, 2005).  The use of wildlife resources for sustainable development in Malawi.

Grants

Previous Research Grants

Supervision

• Tsuyuko Yamanaka (self-funded, 2007).  Estuarine biodiversity and climate change.
• Jessica Wiegand (Economic and Social Research Council, 2006).  Ecosystem health, ecosystem services and sustainability indicators.
• Maija Marsh (Australian Invasive Animals Co-operative Research Centre and University of York, 2006).  Social organisation of rabbits and the impact of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Virus.
• Irene di Vittorio (International Program in Economics, 2005).  The management of wild ungulates in San Rossore National Park, Tuscany. PhD awarded 2009.
• Zoë Austin (Natural Environment Research Council, 2005).  The impact of deer on woodland biodiversity. PhD awarded 2009.
• Helen Laycock (Natural Environment Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council, 2004).  Valuing biodiversity gains. PhD awarded 2008.
• Lesley Smith (Scottish Agricultural College, 2004). Effects of farming system on the disease risks to grazing animals. PhD awarded 2007.
• Emily Goodman (Natural Environment Research Council/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, 2003). Contact patterns and processes in territorial mammals. PhD awarded 2007.
• Monika Böhm (University of York/Scottish Agricultural College, 2003, PhD awarded 2007). Multiple reservoirs of wildlife disease and the risks to livestock.
• Andrew Marshall (Natural Environment Research Council, 2003, PhD awarded 2007). Effects of habitat degradation on interspecific aggregations in forest monkeys.
• Kate Palphramand (University of York, 2001, PhD awarded 2005). Scent-marking in a moderate density badger population: neighbour recognition patterns across landscapes.
• Jo Judge (Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs, 2002, PhD awarded 2005). Modelling paratuberculosis in rabbits and cattle.
• Jim Smart (Economic and Social Research Council/Natural Environment Research Council, 1999, PhD awarded 2004).  Conflicts of interest surrounding the management of red deer in Scotland.
• Amy Hall (States of Jersey Education, 1998, PhD awarded 2004).  Animal movement patterns and landscape change.
• Geraldine Newton-Cross (Various, 2000, PhD awarded 2003).  Environmental influences on badger distribution and ecology at different scales.
• Nicola Dennis (Central Science Laboratory, 1999, part-time, withdrawn 2005).  Control of rabbit damage on agricultural crops.
• Melinda Acutt (University of Lancaster, 1995, part-time, PhD awarded 2003).  Biodiversity in agriculture.
• Michael Pocock (Humberside Wastewise, 1997, DPhil awarded 2001).  Agricultural wildlife and disease transmission.
• Rebecca Moberly (Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1999, PhD awarded 2002). The fox in Britain: an economic analysis of costs and benefits.
• Alastair Ward (University or York/Forest Enterprise, 1997, DPhil awarded 2001).  Impacts of roe deer on forestry in the North York Moors.
• Alex Lewis (University of York, 1996, DPhil awarded 1999).  Habitat fragmentation and genetic structure of small mammal populations.
• Deborah Kirby (Natural Environment Research Council, 1996, DPhil awarded 2000).  Biodiversity, stability and resilience in upland agro-ecosystems.
• Mark Cox (Natural Environment Research Council, 1996, DPhil awarded 1999).  Ecological economics of wildlife disease control.
• Adrian Seymour (IFAW, 1995, registered at University of Bristol, PhD awarded 1999).  The impact of fox predation on ground-nesting birds.

Publications

Full publications list

• Holt, A., Godbold, J.A., White, P.C.L., Slater, A.-M., Pereira, E.G. & Solan, M. (2011) Mismatches between legislative frameworks and benefits restrict the implementation of the Ecosystem Approach in coastal environments. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 434, 213-228.
• Davies, L., Bell, J.N.B., Bone, J., Head, M., Hill, L., Howard, C., Hobbs, S.J., Jones, D.T., Power, S.A., Rose, N., Ryder, C., Seed, L., Stevens, G., Toumi, R., Voulvoulis, N. & White, P.C.L. (2011) Open Air Laboratories (OPAL): A community-driven research programme. Environmental Pollution, 159, 2203-2210.
• Laycock, H.F., Moran, D., Smart, J.C.R., Raffaelli, D. & White, P.C.L. (2011) Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity conservation spending. Ecological Economics, 70, 1789-1796.
• De Bruin, A., White, P.C.L., Cinderby, S. & Huby, M. (2011) Social and environmental inequalities and injustice in the rural uplands of England. Critical Social Policy, 31, 266-284.
• Marsh, M., McLeod, S.R., Hutchings, M.R. & White, P.C.L. (2011) Use of proximity loggers and network analysis to quantify social interactions in free-ranging wild rabbit populations. Wildlife Research, 38, 1-12.
• Soulsbury, C.D., Iossa, G., Baker, P.J., White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (2011) A behavioural and spatial analysis of extraterritorial movements in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). Journal of Mammalogy, 92, 190-199
• Fox, N. J., White, P.C.L., McClean, C.J., Marion, G., Evans, A. & Hutchings, M.R. (2011) Predicting impacts of climate change on Fasciola hepatica risk. PLoS One, 6 (1): DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016126.
• Marsh, M.K., Hutchings, M.R., McLeod, S.R. & White, P.C.L. (2011) Spatial and temporal heterogeneities in the contact behaviour of rabbits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65, 183-195. Doi: 10.1007/s00265-010-1024-y
• Hicks, N., Bulling, M.T., Solan, M., Raffaelli, D., White, P.C.L. & Paterson, D.M. (2011) Impact of biodiversity-climate futures on primary production and metabolism in a model benthic estuarine system. BMC Ecology, 2011, 11:7
• White, P.C.L. & Ward, A.I. (2010) Interdiscplinary approaches for the management of existing and emerging human-wildlife conflicts. Wildlife Research, 37, 623-629.
• Austin, Z., Smart, J.C.R., Yearley, S., Irvine, R.J. & White, P.C.L. (2010) Identifying conflicts and opportunities for collaboration in the management of a wildlife resource: a mixed methods approach. Wildlife Research, 37, 647-657.
• Yamanaka, T., Raffaelli, D. & White, P.C.L. (2010) Physical determinants of intertidal communities on dissipative beaches: implications of sea-level rise. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, in press.
• White, P.C.L., Godbold, J.A., Solan, M., Wiegand, J.A. & Holt, A.R. (2010) Ecosystem services and policy: a review of coastal wetland ecosystem services and an efficiency-based framework for implementing the ecosystem approach.  Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, in press.
• Bulling, M.T., Hicks, N., Murray, L., Paterson, D.M., Raffaelli, D., White, P.C.L. & Solan, M. (2010) Marine biodiversity-ecosystem functions under uncertain environmental futures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 365, 2107-2116.
• Wiegand, J., Raffaelli, D., Smart, J.C.R. & White, P.C.L. (2010) Assessment of temporal trends in ecosystem health using an holistic indicator. Journal of Environmental Management, 91, 1446-1455.
• Moran, D., Laycock, H. & White, P.C.L. (2010) The role of cost-effectiveness analysis in conservation decision-making.  Biological Conservation, 143, 826-827.
• Marshall, A.R., Jørgensbye, H.I.O., Rovero, F., Platts, P.J., White, P.C.L. & Lovett, J.C. (2009) The species–area relationship and confounding variables in a threatened monkey community. American Journal of Primatology, 71, 1-12.
• Huby, M., Cinderby, S., de Bruin, A. & White, P.C.L. (2009) Measuring inequality in rural England: the effects of changing spatial resolution.  Environment and Planning A, 41, 3023-3037.
• Laycock, H., Moran, D., Smart, J., Raffaelli, D. & White, P. (2009) Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of conservation: the UK biodiversity action plan.  Biological Conservation, 142, 3120-3127.
• Austin, Z.A., Cinderby, S., Smart, J.C.R., Raffaelli, D., & White, P.C.L. (2009) Mapping wildlife: integrating stakeholder knowledge with modelled patterns of deer abundance using participatory GIS.  Wildlife Research, 36, 553-564.
• Böhm, M., Hutchings, M.R. & White, P.C.L. (2009) Contact networks in a wildlife-livestock host community: identifying high-risk individuals in the transmission of bovine TB among badgers and cattle. PLoS ONE 4(4): e5016. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005016
• White, P.C.L., Smart, J.C.R., Renwick, A.R. & Raffaelli, D. (2009) Ecosystem health.  In: Frid, C.L.J. & Raffaelli, D. (eds.) Ecosystem Ecology: a New Synthesis, pp. 65-93.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Irvine, R.J., Fiorini, S., McLeod, J., Turner, A., Van der Wal, R., Armstrong, H., Yearley, S. & White, P.C.L., (2009) Can managers inform models? Integrating local knowledge into models of red deer habitat use.  Journal of Applied Ecology, 46, 344-352.
• Smith, L.A., Marion, G., Swain, D.L., White, P.C.L. & Hutchings, M.R. (2009) The effect of grazing management on livestock exposure to parasites via the faecal-oral route.  Preventive Veterinary Medicine 91, 95-106. Doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.05.026
• White, P.C.L., Taylor, A.C., Boutin, S., Myers, C. & Krebs, C.J. (2009) Wildlife Research in a changing world.  Wildlife Research, 36, 275-278.
• Davidson, R.S., Marion, G., White, P.C.L. & Hutchings, M.R. (2009) Use of host population reduction to control wildlife infection: rabbits and paratuberculosis.  Epidemiology and Infection, 137, 131-138.
• White, P.C.L., Cinderby, S., Raffaelli, D., de Bruin, A., Holt, A. & Huby, M. (2008) Enhancing the effectiveness of policy-relevant integrative research in rural areas.  Area, 41, 414-424. Doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2008.00871.x
• Smith, L.A., White, P.C.L., Marion, G. & Hutchings, M.R. (2008) Livestock grazing behaviour and inter- versus intraspecific disease risk via the faecal-oral route.  Behavioral Ecology, 20, 426-432. doi:10.1093/beheco/arn143
• Smith, L.A., Marion, G., Swain, D.L., White, P.C.L. & Hutchings, M.R. (2008) Inter- and intra-specific disease risk: a consequence of behaviour in a complex environment.  Epidemiology and Infection, 137, 630-643.
• Bulling, M., Solan, M., Dyson, K.E., Hernandez-Milian, G., Luque, P., Pierce, G.J., Raffaelli, D., Paterson, D.M. & White, P.C.L. (2008) Species effects on ecosystem processes are modified by faunal responses to habitat composition.  Oecologia, 158, 511-520.  doi 10.1007/s00442-008-1160-5
• White, P.C.L., Böhm, M., Marion, G. & Hutchings, M.R. (2008) Control of bovine tuberculosis in British livestock: there is no ‘silver bullet’.  Trends in Microbiology, 16, 420-427.
• Ward, A.I., White, P.C.L., Walker, N.J. & Critchley, C.H. (2008) Conifer leader browsing by roe deer in English upland forests: effects of deer density and understorey vegetation.  Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 1333-1338.
• White, P.C.L., Ford, A.E.S., Clout, M.N., Engeman, R.M., Roy, S. & Saunders, G. (2008) Alien invasive vertebrates in ecosystems: pattern, process and the social dimension.  Wildlife Research, 35, 171-179.
• Böhm, M., Palphramand, K.L., Newton-Cross, G., Hutchings, M.R. & White, P.C.L. (2008) The spatial distribution of badgers, setts and latrines: the risk for intra-specific and badger-livestock disease transmission.  Ecography, 31, 525-537.
• Böhm, M., Palphramand, K.L., Newton-Cross, G., Hutchings, M.R. & White, P.C.L. (2008) Dynamic interactions among badgers: implications for sociality and disease transmission.  Journal of Animal Ecology, 77, 735-745.
• Baker, P.J., Boitani, L., Harris, S., Saunders, G. & White, P.C.L. (2008) Terrestrial carnivores and human food production: impact and management.  Mammal Review, 38, 123-166.
• White, P.C.L. & Lowe, P. (2008) Wild mammals and the human food chain.  Mammal Review, 38, 117-122.
• Marshall, A.R., Lovett, J.C. & White, P.C.L. (2007) Line-transect methods for estimating density of social animals: lessons from the primates.  American Journal of Primatology, 70, 452-462. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20516
• Smart, J.C.R., White, P.C.L. & Termansen, M. (2007) Modelling conflicting objectives in the management of a mobile ecological resource: red deer in the Scottish Highlands.  Ecological Economics, 64, 881-892.  doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.05.012
• Dyson, K.E., Bulling, M., Solan, M., Raffaelli, D., White, P.C.L. & Paterson, D.M. (2007).  Influence of heterogeneity of ecosystem function in experimental systems.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274, 2547-2554.
• Böhm, M., White, P.C.L., Hunter, J., Smith, L. & Hutchings, M.R. (2007) Wild deer as a source of infection for livestock and humans in the UK.  The Veterinary Journal 174, 260-276.
• Baker, P.J., Dowding, C.V., Molony, S.E., White, P.C. L. & Harris, S. (2007). Activity patterns of urban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) reduce the risk of traffic-induced mortality. Behavioral Ecology, 18, 716-724.
• Palphramand, K.L. & White, P.C.L. (2007) Badgers, Meles meles, discriminate between neighbour, alien and self scent.  Animal Behaviour, 74, 429-436.
• Renwick, A.R., White, P.C.L. & Bengis, R.G. (2007) Bovine tuberculosis in southern African wildlife: a multi-species host-pathogen system.  Epidemiology and Infection, 135, 529-540.
• Newton-Cross, G., White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (2007) Modelling the distribution of badgers Meles meles: comparing predictions from field-based and remotely derived habitat data.  Mammal Review, 37, 54-70.
• Judge, J., Davidson, R., Marion, G., White, P.C.L. & Hutchings, M.R. (2007) Are rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus a true wildlife reservoir for paratuberculosis?  Journal of Applied Ecology, 44, 302-311.
• Palphramand, K.L., Newton-Cross, G. & White, P.C.L. (2007) Spatial organization and behavior of badgers (Meles meles) in a moderate-density population.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, 401-413.
• White, P.C.L. & King, C.M. (2006) Predation on native birds in New Zealand beech forests: the role of functional relationships between Stoats Mustela erminea and rodents.  Ibis, 148, 765-771.
• Jennings, N.V., Smith, R.K., Häckländer, K., Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (2006) Variation in demography, condition and dietary quality of hares Lepus europaeus from high-density and low-density populations.  Wildlife Biology, 12, 179-189.
• Huby, M., Cinderby, S., Crowe, A.M., Gillings, S., McClean, C.J., Moran, D., Owen, A. & White, P.C.L. (2006) The association of natural, social and economic factors with bird species richness in rural England.  Journal of Agricultural Economics, 57, 295-312.
• Smith, L.A., White, P.C.L. & Hutchings, M.R. (2006) Effect of the nutritional environment and reproductive investment on herbivore-parasite interactions in grazing environments.  Behavioral Ecology, 17, 591-596.
• Solan, M., Raffaelli, D.G., Paterson, D.M., White, P.C.L. & Pierce, G.J. (2006) Theme Section. Marine biodiversity and ecosystem function: empirical approaches and future research needs. Introduction. Marine Ecology Progress Series 311, 175-178.
• Bulling, M.T., White, P.C.L., Raffaelli, D.G. & Pierce, G.J. (2006) Using model systems to address the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning process. Marine Ecology Progress Series 311, 295-309. 
• Böhm, M., White, P.C.L., Daniels, M.J., Allcroft, D., Munro, R. & Hutchings, M.R. (2006) The health of wild red and sika deer in Scotland: an analysis of key endoparasites and recommendations for monitoring disease.  Veterinary Journal, 171, 287-294.
• White, P., Moberly, R., Smart, J., Harris, S. & Baker, P. (2005) Vossenbeheer gezien door een economische bril [Economic perspectives on the management of foxes].  In: Mulder, J.-L., van Apeldoorn, R.C. & Klok, C. (eds.) Naar een effectief en breed geaccapteerd vossenbeheer, pp. 30-37.  Faunafonds, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• White, P.C.L. & Whiting, S.J. (2005) Public attitudes towards badger culling to control bovine tuberculosis in cattle.  Cattle Practice 13, 419-426.
• Ji, W., White, P.C.L. & Clout, M. (2005) Contact rates between possums revealed by proximity data loggers.  Journal of Applied Ecology, 42, 595-604.
• White, P.C.L., Vaughan Jennings, N., Renwick, A.R. & Barker, N.H.L. (2005) Questionnaires in ecology: a review of past use and recommendations for best practice.  Journal of Applied Ecology, 42, 421-430.
• Raffaelli, D.G., White, P.C.L., Renwick, A.R., Smart, J.C.. & Perrings, C.A. (2005) The health of ecosystems: the Ythan estuary case study.  In: Handbook of Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health (eds. S. E. Jørgensen, R. Constanza & F.-L. Xu), pp. 379-393. Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (2004) Epidemiological models.  In: Historical Perspective of Rabies in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin (eds. A. King, A.R. Fooks, M. Aubert & A. I. Wandeler), pp. 293-309.  OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health), Paris.
• Ji, W., Sarre, S.D., White, P.C.L. & Clout, M.N. (2004) Population recovery of common brushtail possums after local depopulation.  Wildlife Research, 31, 543-550.
• Ward, A. I., White, P. C. L. & Critchley, C. H. (2004) Roe deer Capreolus capreolus behaviour affects density estimates from distance sampling surveys.  Mammal Review, 34, 315-319.
• Pocock, M.J.O., Frantz, A., Cowan, D.P., White, P.C.L. & Searle, J.B.  (2004) Tapering bias inherent in Minimum Number Alive (MNA) population estimates.  Journal of Mammalogy, 85, 959-962.
• King, C.M. & White, P.C.L. (2004)  Decline in capture rate of stoats at high mouse densities in New Zealand Nothofagus forests.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 28, 251-258.
• French, N.P. & White, P.C.L. (2004) The use of GIS in modelling the spatial and temporal spread of animal diseases.  In: GIS and Spatial Analysis in Veterinary Science (eds. P. Durr & T. Gatrell), pp. 177-203.  CAB International, Oxford.
• Baker, P., Funk, S., Harris, S., Newman, T., Saunders, G. & White, P. (2004) The impact of human attitudes on the social and spatial organisation of urban foxes (Vulpes vulpes) before and after an outbreak of sarcoptic mange.  In: Urban Wildlife Conservation.  Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Urban Wildlife Conservation (eds. Shaw, W.W., Harris, L.K. & VanDruff, L.), pp. 153-163.  Tucson, Arizona.
• Pocock, M.J.O., Searle, J.B. & White, P.C.L. (2004) Adaptations of animals to commensal habitats: population dynamics of house mice (Mus musculus) on farms.  Journal of Animal Ecology, 73, 878-888.
• Moberly, R.L., White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (2004) Mortality due to fox predation in free-range poultry flocks in Britain.  Veterinary Record, 155, 48-52.
• Seymour, A.S., Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (2004) Potential effects of reserve size on incidental nest predation by red foxes Vulpes vulpes.  Ecological Modelling, 175, 101-114.
• White, P.C.L. & Benhin, J.K.A. (2004) Factors influencing the occurrence and scale of TB in cattle in southwest England.  Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 63, 1-7.
• Ward, A.I., White, P.C.L., Smith, A. & Critchley, C.H. (2004) Modelling the cost of roe deer browsing damage to forestry. Forest Ecology and Management, 191, 301-310.
• Baker, P.J., Harris, S., Robertson, C.P.J., Saunders, G.R. & White, P.C.L.  (2004) Is it possible to monitor mammal population changes from counts of road traffic casualties? An analysis using Bristol's red foxes Vulpes vulpes as an example. Mammal Review. 34, 115-130.
• Smart, J.C.R., Ward, A.I. & White, P.C.L. (2004) Monitoring woodland deer populations in the UK: an imprecise science.  Mammal Review, 34, 99-114.
• Moberly, R.L., White, P.C.L., Webbon, C.C., Baker, P.J. & Harris, S. (2004) Modelling the costs of fox predation and preventive measures on sheep farms in Britain.  Journal of Environmental Management, 70, 129-143.
• Moberly, R.L., White, P.C.L., Webbon, C., Baker, P.J. & Harris, S. (2003) Factors associated with fox (Vulpes vulpes) predation of lambs in Britain.  Wildlife Research, 30, 219-227.
• Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (2003) TB in cattle in Britain: can badger culling ever solve the problem?  In: Conservation and Conflict: Mammals and Farming in Britain (eds. F. Tattersall & W. Manley), pp. 152-164.  Linnean Society Occasional Publications 4, Westbury Publishing, Otley.
• Seymour, A.S., Harris, S., Ralston, C. & White, P.C.L. (2003) Factors affecting the nesting success of lapwings Vanellus vanellus and behaviour of red fox Vulpes vulpes in lapwing nesting sites.  Bird Study, 50, 39-46.
• Newman, T.J., Baker, P.J., Simcock, E., Saunders, G., White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (2003) Changes in red fox habitat preference and rest site fidelity following a disease-induced population decline.  Acta theriologica, 48, 79-91.
• King, C.M., White, P.C.L., Purdey, D.C. & Lawrence, B. (2003) Matching productivity to resource availability in stoats, Mustela erminea.  Canadian Journal of Zoology, 81, 662-669.
• White, P.C.L., Newton-Cross, G., Gray, M., Ashford, R., White, C. & Saunders, G. (2003) Spatial interactions and habitat use of rabbits on pasture and implications for the spread of rabbit haemorrhagic disease in New South Wales.  Wildlife Research, 30, 49-58.
• White, P.C.L., McClean, C.J. & Woodroffe, G.L. (2003) Factors affecting the success of an otter (Lutra lutra) reinforcement, as identified by post-translocation monitoring.  Biological Conservation, 112, 363-371.
• Vaughan, N., Lucas, E-A., Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (2003) Habitat associations of European hares Lepus europaeus on farmland in England and Wales: implications for land management. Journal of Applied Ecology, 40, 163-175.
• White, P.C.L., Newton-Cross, G., Moberly, R.L., Smart, J.C.R., Baker, P.J. & Harris, S. (2003) The current and future management of wild mammals hunted with dogs in England and Wales. Journal of Environmental Management, 67, 187-197.
• Pocock, M., White, P., McClean, C. & Searle, J. (2003) The use of accessibility in defining sub-groups of small mammals from point sampled data.  Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 27, 71-83.
• Moberly, R., White, P., Webbon, C., Baker, P. & Harris, S. (2002) Fox predation on sheep farms in Britain: preliminary results from a questionnaire survey.  Proceedings of the Sheep Veterinary Society, 25, 7-10.
• White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (2002) Economic and environmental costs of alien vertebrate species in Britain.  In: Biological Invasions - Economic and Environmental Costs of Alien Plant, Animal, and Microbe Species (ed. D. Pimentel), pp. 113-149.  CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Baker, P.J., Harris, S., Robertson, P.J., Saunders, G. & White, P.C.L. (2001) Differences in the capture rate of cage-trapped red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and an evaluation of rabies control measures in Britain.  Journal of Applied Ecology, 38, 823-835.
• White, P.C.L., Bennett, A.C. & Hayes, E.J.V. (2001) The use of willingness-to-pay approaches in mammal conservation.  Mammal Review, 31, 151-167.
• Pocock, M.J.O., Searle, J.B., Betts, W.B. & White, P.C.L. (2001) Patterns of infection by Salmonella and Yersinia spp. in commensal house mouse (Mus mus domesticus) populations.  Journal of Applied Microbiology, 90, 1-6.
• Halls, P.J., Bulling, M., White, P.C.L., Garland, L. & Harris, S. (2001) Dirichlet neighbours: revisiting Dirichlet tessellation for neighbourhood analysis.  Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 25, 105-117.
• Hutchings, M.R. & White, P.C.L. (2000) Mustelid scent-marking in managed ecosystems: implications for population management.  Mammal Review, 30, 157-169.
• White, P.C.L. & Newton-Cross, G. (2000) An introduced disease in an invasive host: the ecology and economics of rabbit calicivirus disease in rabbits in Australia.  In: The Economics of Biological Invasions (eds. C. Perrings, M. Williamson & S. Dalmazzone), pp. 117-137.  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• White, P.C.L. & Whiting, S.J. (2000) Public attitudes towards badger culling to control bovine tuberculosis in cattle.  Veterinary Record 147, 179-184.
• White, P.C.L., Groves, H.L., Savery, J.R., Conington, J. & Hutchings, M.R. (2000) Fox predation as a cause of lamb mortality on hill farms.  Veterinary Record 147, 33-37.
• Baker, P.J., Funk, S.M., Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (2000)  Flexible social organisation of urban foxes (Vulpes vulpes) before and during an outbreak of sarcoptic mange.  Animal Behaviour 59, 127-146.
• Cox, M., Barbier, E.B., White, P.C.L., Newton-Cross, G., Kinsella, L. & Kennedy, H. (1999)  Public preferences for rabies prevention policies in the U.K.  Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 41, 257-270.
• Cox, M., White, P.C.L. & Barbier, E.B. (1999)  Ecological economics of bovine tuberculosis in badgers and cattle.  In: Advances in Vertebrate Pest Management (eds. D.P. Cowan and C.J. Feare), pp. 131-145.  Filander Verlag, Fürth, Germany.
• Ward, A.I., White, P.C.L. & Critchley, C.H. (1999)  Incidence and intensity of damage by roe deer to commercially planted trees and associated influences in the north of England.  In: Entretiens de Chizé en Ecologie.  Herbivore feeding strategies, population processes and impact on biodiversity (eds. P. Duncan & T. Micol).  Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Bordeaux, France.
• White, P.C.L. & Lovett, J.C. (1999)  Public preferences and willingness to pay for nature conservation in the North York Moors National Park, U.K.  Journal of Environmental Management, 55, 1-13.
• White, P.C.L. (1998)  Ecology, economics and biodiversity conservation.  In: The Co-Action between Living Systems and the Planet (eds. H. Greppin, R. Degli Agosti & C. Penel), pp. 201-222.  University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Clarke, G.P., White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (1998)  Effects of roads on badger (Meles meles) populations in south-west England.  Biological Conservation, 86, 117-124.
  
• Saunders, G., White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (1997)  Habitat utilisation by urban foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and the implications for rabies control.  Mammalia, 61, 497-510.
• White, P.C.L., Lewis, A.J.G. & Harris, S. (1997)  Fertility control as a means of controlling bovine tuberculosis in badger (Meles meles) populations in southwest England: predictions from a spatial stochastic simulation model.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 264, 1737-1747.
• White, P.C.L., Gregory, K.W., Lindley, P.J. & Richards, G. (1997)  Economic values of threatened mammals in Britain: a case study of the otter (Lutra lutra) and the water vole (Arvicola terrestris).  Biological Conservation, 82, 345-354.
• White, P.C.L. (1996)  Fertility control of badger populations as a means of reducing badger damage to growing crops.  Brighton Crop Protection Conference 1996: Pests and Diseases, 3, 835-840.
• White, P.C.L., Saunders, G. & Harris, S. (1996)  Spatio-temporal patterns of home range use by foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in urban environments.  Journal of Animal Ecology, 65, 121-125.
• White, P.C.L., Harris, S. & Smith, G.C. (1995)  Fox contact rates and rabies spread: a model for the estimation of contact rates at different population densities and its implications for rabies control in Britain.  Journal of Applied Ecology, 32, 693-706.
• White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (1995)  Bovine tuberculosis in badger (Meles meles) populations in south-west England: an assessment of past, present and possible future control strategies using simulation modelling.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 349, 415-432.
• White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (1995)  Bovine tuberculosis in badger (Meles meles) populations in south-west England: the use of a spatial stochastic simulation model to understand the dynamics of the disease.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 349, 391-413.
• Bolker, B., Altmann, M., Aubert, M., Ball, F., Barlow, N., Bowers, R., Dobson, A., Elkington, J., Garnett, G., Gilligan, C., Hassell, M., Isham, V., Jacquez, J., Kleczkowski, A., Levin, S., May, R., Metz, J., Mollison, D., Morris, M., Real, L., Sattenspiel, L., Swinton, J., White, P. & Williams, B. (1995)  Group report: spatial dynamics of infectious diseases in natural populations.   Grenfell, B.T. & Dobson, A.P., eds.  Ecology of infectious diseases in natural populations, pp.399-420.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• White, P.C.L. & Harris, S.  (1995)  Dealing with an outbreak of rabies in Britain.  Morgan, D.R., ed.  The BMA Guide to Rabies, pp.55-73.  Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press.
• White, P.C.L., Harris, S. & Brown, J.A. (1994)  Response to Hancox.  Trends in Microbiology 2, 337-338. 
• White, P.C.L. & Harris, S. (1994)  Encounters between red foxes (Vulpes vulpes): implications for territory maintenance, social cohesion and dispersal.  Journal of Animal Ecology, 63, 315-327.
• White, P.C.L. & Hassall, M. (1994)  Effects of management on spider communities of headlands in cereal fields.  Pedobiologia, 38, 169-184.
• Brown, J.A., Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (1994)  Persistence of  Mycobacterium bovis in cattle.  Trends in Microbiology, 2, 43-46.
• Cardwell, C., Hassall, M. & White, P.C.L. (1994)  Effects of management on carabid beetle communities in cereal fields.  Pedobiologia, 38, 50-62.
• White, P.C.L., Brown, J.A. & Harris, S. (1993)  Badgers (Meles meles), cattle and bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis): a hypothesis to explain the influence of habitat on the risk of disease transmission in southwest England.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 253, 277-284.
• Newton-Fisher, N., Harris, S., White, P.C.L. & Jones, G. (1993)  Structure and function of red fox Vulpes vulpes vocalisations.  Bioacoustics, 5, 1-31.
• Saunders, G., White, P.C.L., Harris, S. & Rayner, J.M.V. (1993)  Urban foxes: food acquisition, time and energy budgeting of a generalised predator.  Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 65, 215-234.
• Harris, S. & White, P.C.L. (1993)  Is reduced affiliative rather than increased agonistic behaviour associated with dispersal in red foxes?  Animal Behaviour, 44, 1085-1089.
• Wray, S., Cresswell, W., White, P.C.L. & Harris, S.  (1992)  What, if anything, is a core area?  An analysis of the problems of describing internal range configurations.  Priede, I.G. & Swift, S.M., eds. Wildlife Telemetry: Remote Monitoring and Tracking of Animals, pp.256-271.  Chichester: Ellis Horwood.
• Hassall, M., Hawthorne, A., Maudsley, M., White, P.C.L. & Cardwell, C.  (1992)  Effects of headland management on invertebrate communities in cereal fields.  Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 40, 155-178. 
  

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Environmental Policy: from global to local (ENV00008C)
• Wildlife Conservation and Management (2530024)

Postgraduate

• Wildlife Management (2580043)
• Environment, law and policy (2580052)

External activities

Memberships

• Member, ESRC Peer Review College 2010-2012
• Member, ESPA review panel, 2010
• Member, NERC Peer Review College, 2007-2009
• Member of ESRC/NERC/BBSRC Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Scoping Studies and Capacity Building Awards Assessment Panel, 2004
• Reviewer for NERC Centre of Hydrology and Ecology Core Strategic Programme 2005-2010
• Council Member, The Mammal Society, 2003-2008

Editorial duties

• Editor, Wildlife Research, 2009 on
• Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology, 2006-2008
• Member, International Editorial Board for Australian-based Wildlife Research journal, 2006 on
• Editor, Theme Section of Marine Ecology Progress Series on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function, 2006
• Editor, Special issue of Wildlife Research on Invasive Species, 2007
• Editor, Special issue of Mammal Review on Wild Mammals and the Human Food Chain, 2008

Visiting Research Posts

• Department of Agriculture and Food, Ireland. September 2005.
• University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. October-November 2001.
• AgResearch, New Zealand. April-May 1999.
• NSW Agriculture, Australia.  May-July 1999.

Invited talks and conferences

• Defra workshop on Securing Regional Growth within Environmental Limits, London, March 2010.
• Invited to participate in Natural England Expert Panel workshop on the Character and Quality of England’s Landscapes, March 2010
• Invited participant in Natural England Ecosystem Service Pilots Science Advisory Workshop, Peterborough, January 2010.
• RELU seminar series on human-animal interactions, Bristol, December 2009.
• Mammal Society symposium on human-wildlife conflicts, London, November 2009.
• RELU conference on data management, London, November 2009.
• ESRC Framing Ecosystem Services and Health conference, London, September 2009.
• Rural Commissioners - invited special presentation on inequalities, London, April 2009.
• EU FP7 workshop on bovine tuberculosis in Europe (TB-STEOP programme). Madrid, March 2008.