Toni Clarke

Toni provides statistical consultancy to researchers within Forest Research based around the following key areas:

Technical Skills – Providing statistical analyses based on the latest methodological expertise and analytical skills, using a range of statistical techniques implemented in the R software environment.
Quality Assurance – Actively encouraging the application of good statistical practice by providing advice on experimental design, data analysis and publication and presentation of research findings.
Knowledge exchange – Communicating and collaborating with Forest Research staff and providing training to encourage the development of statistical literacy and robust reproducible science.

Toni Clarke joined Forest Research as a statistician in January 2020, having previously held positions in academia working at the University of Edinburgh (2013-2019) and the University of Pennsylvania (2010-2013). Toni has a BSc (Hons) and an MRes in Biological Sciences from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from King’s College London. Toni’s academic research experience includes molecular and statistical genetics, bioinformatics and data science.

Affiliations

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Academic Editor for PLOS ONE.

BSC (Hons), MRes, Ph.D.

0300 067 5638

toni.clarke@forestresearch.gov.uk

Statistician

Inventory, forecasting and operational support (IFOS)

NRS

Northern Research Station

Bush Estate

Roslin

Scotland

Related Publications

Publication

Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post-drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics

Understanding the impacts of extreme drought on forest productivity requires a comprehensive assessment of tree and forest resilience. However, current approaches to quantifying resilience limit our understanding of forest response dynamics, recovery trajectories and drought legacies by constraining the temporal scale and resolution of assessment. We compared individual tree growth histories with growth forecasted using […]

Published

Themes

Climate change, Forest management

Peer reviewed journal articles

Peer-reviewed publications

Ovenden, T.S., Perks, M.P., Clarke, T-K., Mencuccini, M., Jump, A. Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post-drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics. Journal of Ecology. 2021; 109:3157-3170

Doick, K.J., Buckland, A., Clarke, T-K. Historic Urban Tree Cover of Great Britain. Forests. 2020; 11(10); 1049

Broome A., Inchboard, L.L., Perks, M.P., Clarke T-K., Park, K.J., Thompson, R. Can epiphytic lichens of remnant Atlantic oakwood trees in a planted ancient woodland site survive early stages of woodland restoration? Annals of Forest Science. 2021; 78:58

Green, S., James, E.R., Clark, D., Clarke, T-K., Riddell, C.E. Evidence for natural resistance in Juniperus communis to Phytophthora austrocedri. Journal of Plant Pathology; 103: 55-59

Doick K.J., Buckland, A., Clarke, T-K. 2020. Historic Urban Canopy Cover of Great Britain. Forests. In Review.

Clarke, T-K., Adams, M.J., Howard, D.M., Xia, C. et al. 2019 Genetic and shared couple environmental contributions to smoking and alcohol use in the UK population. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-11

Clarke, T-K., Adams, M.J., Davies, G., Howard D.M., et al. 2017 Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and genetic overlap with other health-related traits in UK Biobank (N= 112 117). Molecular psychiatry 22 (10), 1376-1384

Clarke T-K., Lupton, M.K., Fernandez-Pujals, A.M., Starr, J., et al. 2016 Common polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with cognitive ability in the general population. Molecular psychiatry 21 (3), 419-425

Other publications

Dunn, M., Sing, L., Clarke, T. & Moseley D. (2020) Attitudes Towards Landscape Benefits and Woodland Creation in Southern Scotland. Survey Findings Summary Report. Report for Scottish Forestry.