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Education

Degree: PhD
Year: 1988
Institution: University College London

Degree: MSc
Year: 1983
Institution: University College London

Degree: BE
Year: 1982
Institution: University College Dublin

JOHN M HALLEY

Department of Biological Applications and Technology (BET)

Contact Information

Tel.: +30-26510 07337, +30-6944-328099
e-mail:

Research topics (related to the Institute)

Ecosystem Management and Conservation and Biodiversity

Food and agri-food products

Research summary

  • Issues involving extinction of species, especially the estimation of extinction debt
  • Mathematical modelling for ecology and conservation
  • Conservation issues associated with the harvesting of high fecundity organisms in the wild.
  • Modelling long-range correlations of environmental variability
  • The ecology and conservation of orchids in Greece

Professional background

2012 - todayProfessor of Ecology, BET, UoI
2007 - 2012Assoc. Professor, BET, UoI
2003 - 2006Lecturer, Fisheries & Aquaculture, TEI Thessaloniki
1999 - 2001Research Associate, Dept. of Biology, AUTh.
1996 - 1998Lecturer, Math. Inst., University of St. Andrews, UK.
1990 - 1995Post-doctoral researcher, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, UK.

Recent relevant publications/patents

1. Charitonidou, M. and Halley, J.M. (2020) “What goes up must come down – why high fecundity orchids challenge conservation beliefs” Biological Conservation (Accepted for publication).

2. Nic Lughadha, E., Bachman, S.P., Leão, T., Forest, F., Halley, J.M. et al (2020) “Extinction Risk and Threats to Plants and Fungi”, Plants, People, Planet 2, no. 5: 389-408.

3. Marini Govigli, V., Healey, J.R., Wong, J.L.G., Stara, K., Tsiakiris, R. and Halley, J.M. (2020) "When nature meets the divine: effect of prohibition regimes on the structure and tree species composition of sacred forests in northern Greece." Web Ecology 20, no. 2: 53-86.

4. Halley, J.M. (2019) “Doubting Thomas and the Love of Invasive Species”, Conservation Biology 33(6), 1451-1453.

5. Charitonidou, M., Stara, K., Kougioumoutzis, K., & Halley, J. M. (2019). Implications of salep collection for the conservation of the Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) in Epirus, Greece. Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, 26(1), 18.

6. Avtzis DN, Stara K, Sgardeli V, Betsis A, Diamandis S, Healey JR, Kapsalis E, Kati V, Korakis G, Marini Govigli V, Monokrousos N, Muggia L, Nitsiakos V, Papadatou E, Papaioannou H, Rohrer A, Τsiakiris R, van Houtan KS, Vokou D, Wong J, Halley, JM. (2018) “Quantifying the conservation value of Sacred Natural Sites”. Biological Conservation 222 (2018): 95-103.

7. Newmark WD, Jenkins CN, Pimm SL, McNeally PB, Halley JM. (2017) “Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(36):9635-40.

8. Sgardeli V, Iwasa Y, Varvoglis H, Halley JM. (2017) “A forecast for extinction debt in the presence of speciation”. Journal of theoretical biology. 2017 Feb 21;415:48-52.

9. Halley JM, Monokrousos N, Mazaris AD, Newmark WD, Vokou D. (2017) “Dynamics of extinction debt across five taxonomic groups”. Nature communications. 25;7.

10. Van Houtan K.S., Halley J.M., Marks W. (2015). Terrestrial basking sea turtles are responding to spatio-temporal sea surface temperature patterns. Biology Letters 11: 20140744.

Number of publications, 98 (22-10-2020) Number of citations: >4971 (Google Scholar 22-10-2020) H factor = 38 (Google Scholar 22-10-2020)

Recent Research projects / grants (last 5 years)

1. HORIZON-2020. “INCREDIBLE - Innovation Networks of Cork, Resins and Edibles in the Mediterranean basin, 2018-2020. Local coordinator for Greece, J.M. Halley

2. ESPA 2014-20. “Assessment of the effect of collecting orchids for salep in the abundance and dynamics of wild populations in Northern Pindos”. 2018-2019 Coordinator J.M. Halley

3. HFRI (Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation), General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), “Modelling the population dynamics and rarity of two species in the genus Ophrys (Orchidaceae) in Northwestern Greece”. PhD project (2017-2020). Supervisor J.M.Halley

4. THALIS “SAGE - Conservation through Religion: the Sacred Groves of Epirus”. 2011-2016. Principal Investigator J.M. Halley