Gavin Horsburgh

Research Asistant NERC Environmental Omics Facility, Wet-Lab manager (Environmental sciences; Biological sciences)

Sheffield UK

Publications

Unexpected landscape-scale contemporary gene flow and fine-scale genetic diversity in rural hedgehogs. Conservation Genetics 26(2):391-401 Apr 2025
Environmental DNA is more effective than hand sorting in evaluating earthworm biodiversity recovery under regenerative agriculture. Science of The Total Environment 968 Article number 178793 10 Mar 2025
Revealing the demographic history of the European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus). Ecology and Evolution 14(10) Article number e70460 Oct 2024
Admixture and reproductive skew shape the conservation value of ex situ populations of the Critically Endangered eastern black rhino. Conservation Genetics 25(4):897-910 Aug 2024
Assessing rates of parasite coinfection and spatiotemporal strain variation via metabarcoding: insights for the conservation of European turtle doves Streptopelia turtur. Molecular Ecology 31(9):2730-2751 May 2022
Conservation by trans-border cooperation: population genetic structure and diversity of geoffroy’s bat (Myotis emarginatus) at its north-western european range edge. Biodiversity and Conservation 31:925-948 Mar 2022
Development of a multiplex microsatellite marker set for the study of the solitary red mason bee, Osmia bicornis (Megachilidae). Molecular Biology Reports 49(1):783-788 Jan 2022
Metabarcoding reveals selective dietary responses to environmental availability in the diet of a nocturnal, aerial insectivore, the European Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus). Ibis 164(1):60-73 Jan 2022