Professor Jos Barlow
Distinguished Professor of Conservation ScienceResearch Interests
I am interested in understanding how human activities impact tropical forest biodiversity, and the ecosystem services and functions that biodiversity delivers. My work focusses on the Brazilian Amazon, where I have been working since 1998.
I am a co-founder of the Sustainable Amazon Nework (Rede Amazônia Sustentável), which brings together scientists, conservation practitioners and local stakeholders to further our understanding of the environmental and socio-economic trade-offs in the world's largest remaining expanse of tropical forest.
I am a Trustee of WWF-UK, Lead author & member of UN’s Science Panel for the Amazon, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Ecology.
Teaching
I teach on a variety of modules within the Ecology and Conservation and Geography undergraduate and post-graduate programmes, using my expertise in tropical forests to illustrate the many tensions between economic development and conservation. I also teach and supervise students on post-graduate courses at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil.
Contact
Department: Lancaster Environment Centre
Office: LEC Building
Location: LEC 3 - B34
MC PDF: TROPIC - Thresholds in Rainforest Organisms: a Pan-taxa and Integrated Community approach (Paula Ribeiro Anunciação)
01/08/2025 → 31/07/2027
Research
WWF Post Doc Grant
01/01/2025 → 31/08/2025
Research
Enabling large-scale and climate-resilient forest restoration in the Eastern Amazon
01/11/2024 → 31/10/2027
Research
Amazon-SOS: a Safe Operating Space for Amazonian Forests
01/02/2024 → 31/07/2028
Research
Rainforest Fauna in the Anthropocene: an integrated approach to understanding climate and land use change (RAINFAUNA).
01/06/2023 → 30/09/2026
Research
A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience (ARBOLES) - extension
01/07/2022 → 31/03/2023
Research
Amazon PyroCarbon: Quantifying soil carbon responses to fire and climate change (FAPESP)
01/07/2022 → 30/06/2026
Research
GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Lancaster University
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2023
Research
Understanding and Scaling Vulnerability of Neotropical Amazon and Transitional Forests to altered Fire Regimes
01/12/2021 → 31/12/2025
Research
Identifying seeds of transformational change in Amazonia
01/04/2021 → 31/03/2022
Research
Secondary forest permanence in the Brazilian Amazon
01/04/2020 → 31/03/2022
Research
BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2025
Research
BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2024
Research
Evaluating fire-induced dieback of Amazonian rainforest
01/07/2019 → 31/12/2024
Research
ARBOLES: A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience
01/02/2019 → 31/03/2023
Research
Provisioning of ecosystem services and cultural values in the Montane tropics
01/08/2018 → 31/07/2021
Research
Envision DTP: A multi-scale assessment of secondary forest in the Brazilian Amazon.
02/10/2017 → 31/03/2022
Research
ODYSSEA: Observatory of the Dynamics of Interactions Between Societies and Environment in the Amazon
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
Research
Hannah Giffiths NERC Studentship
01/10/2011 → 08/10/2015
Other
Towards COP30 – Integrated and Participatory Planning for Forest Restoration in Response to the Climate Crisis
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fire and the future the the Amazon
Invited talk
Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Editorial activity
Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science
- African Studies Group
- Ecology and Conservation
- Improving global stewardship
- Latin America Research Cluster
- Understanding a changing planet