Professor Jos Barlow
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
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
Amazon-SOS: a Safe Operating Space for Amazonian Forests
01/01/1900 → …
Research
Fire and the future the the Amazon
Invited talk
Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Editorial activity
- African Studies Group
- Ecology and Conservation
- Improving global stewardship
- Latin America Research Cluster
- Understanding a changing planet