Sarah Facey

Sarah joined Forest Research in May 2021 as an Entomology Diagnostician. Previous to this role, her research has been focused on the responses of invertebrate communities to environmental change and management interventions. Sarah obtained her PhD from Western Sydney University, Australia, in 2017, with subsequent post-doctoral work in the United States and Sweden.

Since June 2022, as Entomology Response Manager, Sarah coordinates FR’s contribution to management and eradication programmes for forestry pests across the UK, including Ips typographus. Sarah advises on surveillance, diagnosis, and management as part of government-led Incident Management Teams, and communicates management objectives to external stakeholders. Sarah delivers training on dealing with outbreaks and surveillance techniques to other entomologists, contractors, and stakeholders, and contributes to writing and revising national and FR-specific contingency plans.

Affiliations

Member of the Royal Entomological Society
Member of the British Ecological Society

PhD

0300 067 5644

sarah.facey@forestresearch.gov.uk

Entomology Response Manager

Tree health

Alice Holt

Alice Holt Lodge

Wrecclesham

Farnham

Surrey

Peer reviewed journal articles

Journal Articles:

2021

10. Barnett KL, Johnson SN, Facey SL, Gibson-Forty EVJ, Ochoa-Hueso R & Power SA. Altered precipitation and root herbivory affect the productivity and composition of a mesic grassland. BMC Ecology & Evolution, 21: 145.

2020

9. Jiang M, Medlyn BE, Drake JE,…Facey SL et al. The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment. Nature, 580: 227-231.

2019

8. Nooten SS, Schultheiss P, Rowe RC, Facey SL & Cook JM. Habitat complexity affects functional traits and diversity of ant assemblages in urban green spaces. Myrmecological News, 29: 67-77.

2017

7. Facey SL, Fidler DB, Rowe RC, Bromfield LM, Nooten SS, Staley JT, Ellsworth DS & Johnson SN. Atmospheric change causes declines in woodland arthropods and impacts specific trophic groups. Agricultural & Forest Entomology, 19: 101-112.

2016

6. Torode MD, Barnett KL, Facey SL, Nielsen UN, Tissue DT, Power SA & Johnson SN. Altered precipitation impacts on above- and belowground grassland invertebrates: summer drought leads to outbreaks in spring. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7: 1468.

5. Power SA, Barnett KL, Ochoa-Hueso R, Facey SL, Gibson-Forty EV-J, Hartley SE, Nielsen UN, Tissue DT & Johnson SN. DRI-Grass: a new experimental platform for addressing grassland ecosystem responses to future precipitation scenarios in south-east Australia. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7: 1373.

4. Barnett KL & Facey SL. Grasslands, invertebrates, and precipitation: a review of the effects of climate change. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7: 1196.

2015

3. Johnson SN, Lopaticki G, Barnett K, Facey SL & Hartley S. An insect ecosystem engineer alleviates drought stress in plants without increasing plant susceptibility to an aboveground herbivore. Functional Ecology, 30: 894-902.

2014

2. Facey SL, Ellsworth DS, Staley JT, Wright D & Johnson SN. Upsetting the order: how climate and atmospheric change affects herbivore-enemy interactions. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 5: 66-74.

1. Facey SL, Botham M, Heard M, Pywell R & Staley J. Lepidoptera communities and agri-environment schemes; examining the effects of hedgerow cutting regime on diversity, abundance and parasitism. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 7: 543-552.

Book Chapter:

2016

Facey SL & Gherlenda AN. Forest invertebrate communities and atmospheric change. In: Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates (eds Johnson, SN & Jones, TH). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings:

2016

Facey SL & Torode MD. An assessment of the effect of sward height on suction sampling efficiency for the capture of grassland invertebrates using a G-Vac device. Proceedings of the Ninth Australian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology, Sydney, Australia.

Barnett KB & Facey SL. 20 years of rain manipulation experiments with grassland invertebrates – what do we know? Proceedings of the Ninth Australian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology, Sydney, Australia.

2012

Staley JT, Amy S, Facey SL & Pywell RF. Hedgerow Conservation and Management: A review of 50 years of applied research in the UK. Hedgelink Hedgerow Futures Conference Proceedings, UK.