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Contact
Email: statisticsrg@maths.nuim.ie
Research Topics
Research topics of interest to this group include: Statistical Modelling in Environmental and Ecological Science, Bayesian Methods of Statistical Inference and Statistical Computing and Graphics.
For further information on the research interests of individual members of the group please see Staff Research Interests.
For information on possible postgraduate research areas please see Proposed Research Projects.
Postgraduate Researchers
Current
| Researcher | Supervisor | Research Topic |
| Ms. Áine Dooley | Dr. Caroline Brophy | Modelling techniques for biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality - theoretical development and application. (PhD) |
Graduated
| Researcher | Supervisor | Research Topic |
| Dr. Denise Earle | Dr. Catherine Hurley | Combinatorial methods for Data Visualization. (PhD) (2011) |
| Ms. Erla Sturludóttir | Dr. Caroline Brophy | Forage Quality and Yield in Grass-Legume Mixtures in Northern Europe and Canada. (MSc) (2011) Joint with University of Iceland. |
Events Organised
- Conference on Applied Statistics Ireland (CASI) 2013.
- Irish Statistical Association Short Course: The Association Graph and the Multigraph for Loglinear Models. 3rd-4th November 2011.
Presented by Harry Khamis.
Organised by Caroline Brophy.
- Irish Statistical Association Short Course: Mixed Models and Convergence Issues. 4th-5th March 2010.
Presented by Catherine Truxillo and Russell Wolfinger (SAS Inc).
Organised by Caroline Brophy and John Connolly.
Recent Conference Talks
- Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, (8th – 12th August 2011) “Climatic effects on the composition of four-species agronomic grassland systems at 30 sites over three years.” Presented by C Brophy.
- Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, (8th – 12th August 2011) “Assessing interactions among species in high richness communities using Diversity-Interaction modelling combined with random effects.” Presented by A Dooley.
Recent Publications - 2005 to 2011
- C Brophy, J. Connolly, IL Fagerli, S Duodu, and MM Svenning
A baseline category logit model for assessing competing strains of Rhizobium bacteria.
Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 16, 409–421 (2011) - Stinson KA, C Brophy and Connolly J
Catching up on global change: new ragweed genotypes emerge in elevated CO2 conditions.
Ecosphere, 2, art46 (2011) - Connolly J, MJ Cadotte, C Brophy, Á Dooley, JA Finn, L Kirwan, C Roscher, A Weigelt
Phylogenetically diverse grasslands are associated with pairwise interspecific processes that increase biomass.
Ecology, 92, 1385-1392 (2011) - Connolly J, JA Finn, AD Black, L Kirwan, C Brophy and A Lüscher
Effects of multi-species swards on dry matter production and the incidence of unsown species at three Irish sites.
Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 48, 243–260 (2009) - Kirwan L, J Connolly, JA Finn, C Brophy, A. Lüscher, D Nyfeler & MT Sebastià.
Diversity-interaction modelling - estimating contributions of species identities and interactions to ecosystem function.
Ecology, 90(8), 2032–2038 (2009) - Frankow-Lindberg BE, C Brophy, RP Collins, J Connolly.
Positive biodiversity effects in a temperate forage ecosystem present over three years.
Annals of Botany, 103(6), 913-921 (2009) - Duodu S, C Brophy, J Connolly & MM Svenning
Competitiveness of a native Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii strain for nodule occupancy is manifested during infection.
Plant Soil, 318, 117–126 (2009) -
Brophy C, DJ Gibson, PM Wayne, & J Connolly
How reproductive allocation and flowering probability of individuals in plant populations are affected by position in stand size hierarchy, plant size and CO2 regime.
Journal of Plant Ecology, 1, 207-215 (2008) -
Lüscher A, JA Finn, J Connolly, MT Sebastia, RP Collins, M Fothergill, C Porqueddu, C Brophy, O Huguenin-elie, L Kirwan, D Nyfeler, & A Helgadottir
Benefits of sward diversity for agricultural grasslands.
Biodiversity, 9, 29-32. (2008) -
C. Brophy, D.J. Gibson, P.M. Wayne, and J. Connolly
A modelling framework for analysing the reproductive output of individual plants grown in monoculture.
Ecological Modelling 207, 99-108 (2007). -
Kirwan L, A Lüscher, MT Sebastia, JA Finn, RP Collins, C Porqueddu, A Helgadottir, OH Baadshaug, C Brophy, C Coran, S Dalmannsdottir, I Delgado, A Elgersma, M Fothergill, BE Frankow-Lindberg, P Golinski, P Grieu, AM Gustavsson, M Hoglind, O Huguenin-Elie, C Iliadis, M Jorgensen, Z Kadziuliene, T Karyotis, T Lunnan, M Malengier, S Maltoni, V Meyer, D Nyfeler, P Nykanen-Kurki, J Parente, HJ Smit, U Thumm, & J Connolly Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites.
Journal of Ecology, 95, 530-539 (2007) (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01225.x) -
Ryan M, C Brophy, J Connolly, K Mc Namara, & OT Carton
Monitoring of nitrogen leaching on a dairy farm during four drainage seasons.
Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 45, 115-134 (2006) -
K. Domijan, M.A. Jorgensen, and J.B. Reid
Semi-mechanistic modelling in nonlinear regression: a case study (with discussion)
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 48, 373-392 (2006). -
K. Domijan, M.A. Jorgensen, and J.B. Reid
Rejoinder to Invited Discussion of the paper by Domijan, Jorgensen and Reid
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 48, 405 -413 (2006). -
C. Hurley
Computational Methods for High-Dimensional Rotations in Data Visualization
Chapter 14, Handbook of Statistics, eds.A C. R. Rao, E. Wegman, J. Solka, A A. Buja, D. Cook, D. Asimov, C. Hurley, Elsevier, North-Holland (2005).