African Studies Group, Ecology and Conservation, Improving global stewardship, Latin America Research Cluster, Understanding a changing planet
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Shrub-driven transformation of the alpine soil carbon cycle
16/05/2025 → 15/05/2028
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Mechanisms of gut brain axis involvement in ectotherm thermotolerance: "how the gut brain axis helps animals weather the heat?"
17/03/2025 → 16/09/2028
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21EJP SOIL: SymbiOtIc soLutions for HEalthy Agricultural Landscapes (SOIL HEAL)
03/02/2025 → 02/02/2026
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European Partnering Award: Harnessing root-fungal symbioses for sustainable agriecosystems
03/02/2025 → 31/07/2027
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Following the Nitrogen Fluxes from agricultural Losses via deposition into Wetland ecosystems causing climate impacts (Follow'N'FLoW)
03/02/2025 → 31/08/2028
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Monitoring farmland interventions for carbon
03/02/2025 → 30/09/2025
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Improving Understanding of Nitrogen Deposition – Project 3 of 3: Development of Transect Survey Protocols to Inform Site Specific Dose-Response Analysis
27/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
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Enabling large-scale and climate-resilient forest restoration in the Eastern Amazon
01/11/2024 → 31/10/2027
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CASE - Envision - Hannah Risser: Identifying mechanisms for decline and pathways to recovery in Lepidoptera populations in calcareous habitats
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2031
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Chinese Scholarship Council - Xingchen Liu - Drivers of fine-scale space use in landlocked European eels and implications for management and conservation
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2027
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Determining nitrogen removal by coppicing
01/10/2024 → 31/03/2025
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Faculty Funded PhD Studentship - Molly Fowkes - Tracking the social networks of a critically endangered freshwater eel
01/10/2024 → 31/03/2028
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Coral restoratrion studentship
01/06/2024 → 31/12/2024
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Farming and sustainability in Ireland and Northern Ireland
01/05/2024 → 30/04/2025
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Building Partnerships to Conserve Limestone Pavements
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2026
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Proposal for a workshop on developing acoustic sensors for acoustic monitoring of soil
01/01/2024 → 31/03/2024
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From Loss to Renewal: Biodiversity-Centered Restoration in Amazonia
01/12/2023 → 31/12/2025
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Air Pollution Recovery Indicators (APRI)- Development of a Butterfly/Moth Indicator
01/10/2023 → 31/03/2024
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Mitigating impacts of nitrogen deposition on grassland and heathland
25/09/2023 → 24/06/2024
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Hanson in the Community Monetary Donation
01/07/2023 → 30/09/2025
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Rainforest Fauna in the Anthropocene: an integrated approach to understanding climate and land use change (RAINFAUNA)
01/06/2023 → …
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Plant-Soil Restoration UUKi Twinning Network
01/03/2023 → 31/12/2023
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Natal dispersal in a riverine bird: using next-generation tracking to transform our understanding of juvenile movements
01/01/2023 → 31/12/2024
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Understanding the ecological and social importance of fish spawning aggregations in the Lakshadweep archipelago, India
01/01/2023 → 01/11/2025
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Mapping Soils in Montserrat
21/12/2022 → 24/03/2023
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Mitigating impacts of N deposition from roads - initial stages
01/11/2022 → 31/03/2023
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PhD project: Biodiversity and Remote Sensing of Forest Structure (Pablo Gallego Anex)
01/10/2022 → 31/03/2026
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PhD project: Biodiversity and Remote Sensing of Forest Structure (Pablo Gallego Anex)
01/10/2022 → 31/03/2026
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IAA: BEEBOX v2:
16/09/2022 → 30/06/2024
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IAA: BEEBOX v2:
16/09/2022 → 30/06/2024
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BEEBOX v2: Acoustic and environmental sensors to maximise lifespan and utility of commercial pollinators.
01/09/2022 → 31/12/2023
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FLF: Understanding and conserving tropical freshwater ecosystems
01/08/2022 → 31/07/2026
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Designing Biodiversity Markets for Nature Recovery
01/04/2022 → 30/10/2022
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IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2026
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Mapping eel movements relative to intake characteristics and pumping regimes: improving eel protection and passage
01/03/2022 → 31/03/2025
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Nitrogen deposition from roads: Mitigating and offsetting impacts on sites of conservation importance
01/03/2022 → 30/04/2022
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Ecological function on restored coral reefs (Tim Gordon)
31/12/2021 → 30/06/2025
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H2020: SUPERB
01/12/2021 → 30/11/2025
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Assessing spatiotemporal relationships between atmospheric nitrogen pollution (and other factors) and invertebrate (especially butterfly)
01/10/2021 → 30/09/2023
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H2020 : Transforming Unsustainable management of soils in key agricultural systems in EU and China: developing an integrated platform of alternatives to reverse soil degradation. (TUdi)
01/07/2021 → 30/06/2025
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Microbial PLFA Extraction and Analysis
01/07/2021 → 31/03/2022
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Envision 2 : Research Experience Placements 2021
01/06/2021 → 31/10/2021
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Omics analysis of density-dependent disease resistance in a major crop pest (Newton IF: Yutao Xiao)
25/05/2021 → 24/05/2023
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Travel Grant - Limestone pavements
01/04/2021 → 31/07/2021
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Can Image Analysis and DNA sequencing be integrated to describe ecological structure?
31/03/2021 → 30/03/2022
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The Inner Life of Wild Bees: A Filmable Artificial Nest for Bumblebees
02/03/2021 → 01/03/2022
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Runoff - Aerial Artificial Intelligence Land Use mapping Demonstrator
01/11/2020 → 30/10/2021
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Ecology of Fish Nutrients on Coral Reefs
05/10/2020 → 04/10/2025
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CASE : ENVISION : British Geological Survey - Elizabeth Flint
01/10/2020 → 31/03/2024
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CASE : ENVISION : Wallacea Trust - Catherine Sheppard
01/10/2020 → 31/03/2024
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Impacts of habitat degradation on competitive networks of coral reef predators.
01/10/2020 → 30/09/2022
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Science Hunters: Strategic Collaboration with Lancaster University
01/08/2020 → 31/07/2023
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COVID-19: Delivering Remote Outreach to Schools
15/06/2020 → 31/03/2021
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Secondary forest permanence in the Brazilian Amazon
01/04/2020 → 31/03/2022
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Integrating new statistical frameworks into eDNA survey and analysis at the landscape scale
01/02/2020 → 30/09/2022
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BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2024
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BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2025
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Behaviourally-mediated shifts in reef fish communities following severe disturbance
01/11/2019 → 30/04/2024
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Investing in the future of science - assessing engagement with school-age children
01/11/2019 → 31/03/2020
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Revealing Long-Term Change in Vegetation Landscapes: The English Lake District and Beyond
01/11/2019 → 30/09/2022
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CASE: Envision: Low Carbon Ltd - Hollie Blaydes
01/10/2019 → 31/12/2023
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Can we reduce the use of single use plastics in food production?
01/10/2019 → 30/09/2023
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Envision 2 Doctoral Training Partnership
01/10/2019 → 30/09/2027
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Butterfly Conservation Award
18/09/2019 → 31/12/2020
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Elsevier Community Grant
01/09/2019 → 31/12/2019
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LOCKED UP: The role of biotic and abiotic interactions in the stabilisation and persistence of SOC
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2024
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Our common Future Ocean – Quantifying Coupled Cycles of Carbon, Oxygen, and Nutrients for Determining and Achieving Safe Operating Spaces with Respect to Tipping Points (COMFORT)
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
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Nitrogen Futures
22/08/2019 → 14/05/2020
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EPSRC IAA Funded Parliamentary Academic Fellow
01/08/2019 → 31/12/2021
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Honey Bee Municipal Pesticide Exposure
01/08/2019 → 31/12/2020
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Identifying the Wintering Grounds of Common Sandpipers in the UK using Stable Isotope Analysis
01/08/2019 → 31/07/2020
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Evaluating fire-induced dieback of Amazonian rainforest
01/07/2019 → 31/12/2024
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The Minecraft Periodic Table of Elements
10/06/2019 → 31/07/2020
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N8: Mapping the expansion of soft rush (Juncus effusus) in grasslands
07/02/2019 → 31/10/2019
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ARBOLES: A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience
01/02/2019 → 31/03/2023
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Science Hunters
01/02/2019 → 30/06/2019
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The language of nitrogen: Why is understanding of the environmental challenges caused by nitrogen from agriculture so low?
01/02/2019 → 31/08/2019
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Philip Leverhulme prize
01/11/2018 → 31/10/2023
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ENVISION: Fracking magma: field and experimental investigation of hydrofracture in volcanic systems - Student: Holly Unwin
01/10/2018 → 30/11/2022
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Waitrose CTP (BBSRC) : Helena Ripley
01/10/2018 → 30/09/2022
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Resistance by adaptation: Does evolution stabilise plant community structure and function under climate change?
10/09/2018 → 30/05/2022
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Provisioning of ecosystem services and cultural values in the Montane tropics
01/08/2018 → 31/07/2021
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Waitrose Agronomy Group CTP (Waitrose) A100574 Funding
01/11/2017 → 30/09/2023
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Envision DTP: A multi-scale assessment of secondary forest in the Brazilian Amazon.
02/10/2017 → 31/03/2022
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CASE Studentship Agreement Matt Amos
01/10/2017 → 30/09/2020
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Envision studentship for Thomas Mondain-Monval
01/10/2016 → 30/06/2020
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Research visiting academic grant -University of Granada (Spain)
01/04/2016 → 30/06/2016
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Linking trophic dynamics and infochemical foodwebs: disentangling the mechanisms underlining above- and belowground multitrophic interactions (TRINFOWEB)
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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ODYSSEA: Observatory of the Dynamics of Interactions Between Societies and Environment in the Amazon
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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Santander mobility award-Lancaster University
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2016
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Tri-trophic interactions in an arid environment: I am I eating what I want or what I can?
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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NERC - Watershed determinants of terrestrial resource use by aquatic organisms across the world's freshwater hotspots
01/09/2014 → …
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Ecosystem carbon and nutrient dynamics under global change
01/04/2014 → …
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Predicting urban food insecurity under climate change in Brazilian Amazonia
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2017
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Santander mobility award-Lancaster University
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2014
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NERC studentship for Lucy Magoolagan
01/10/2013 → 31/03/2017
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Priming of Indirect Defence in Plants
17/06/2013 → 16/03/2014
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Algal Interactions with Freshwater Mussels in the River Ehen
22/03/2013 → 31/03/2020
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Ecological cost of herbivory: disruption of mutualism interactions between plants and pollinators due to herbivores.
15/02/2013 → 15/02/2016
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Integrating Nutritional Immunology
03/02/2013 → 02/02/2016
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Identifying Cost-Effective Reforestation Approaches for Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Sequest
01/01/2013 → 31/12/2013
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Epidemiology and Biological Control of Insect Crop Pests
01/10/2012 → 30/09/2013
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Presentation of the Survey Project Results
17/09/2012 → 30/09/2012
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Ecological Continuity Trust: Establishing a Consortium Application
05/09/2012 → 31/12/2013
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Novel Knowledge Exchange Approaches For Sustainable Food Production
01/06/2012 → 31/05/2013
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P9004c RIU Extension Phase:Armyworm Control Commercialisation Plan
01/03/2012 → …
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Host Pathogen interactions as a Resource - Competition Problem
07/11/2011 → 06/03/2015
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CASE: Understanding pesticide photdegraduation and persistance in protected crop environments
01/10/2011 → …
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Hannah Giffiths NERC Studentship
01/10/2011 → 08/10/2015
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FP7: LOCDIS
01/09/2011 → 30/08/2014
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NERC - Manipulating the chemosynthetic and photosynthetic support of river food webs
01/01/2011 → 15/07/2015
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BKS- Bridging knowledge systems for pro-poor management of ecosystem services
01/12/2010 → 31/05/2013
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Percy Sladen - Kenyan freshwater decapods: invasive - native interactions
01/10/2010 → 30/09/2014
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NERC - NE/H525911/1
01/09/2009 → 31/08/2011
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The role of antagonist and mutualist interactions in regulating trophic food webs in arid ecosystems
01/01/2009 → 31/12/2012
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Link Project: Perennial field margins with combined ecological and ag
01/12/2008 → 30/11/2013
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Understanding the ways in which climate change could threaten northerly distributed species
01/01/2008 → 31/12/2009
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NERC - Open CASE Organotin trophic transfer in freshwater food webs
01/10/2007 → 30/09/2010
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Understanding potential effects of climate change on dung beetle communities in subtropical rainforest
01/01/2007 → 31/12/2007
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The role of dung beetle assemblages in dung removal and decomposition, secondary seed dispersal, and seed germination along a biogeographical and climatological gradient
01/01/1900 → …
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Ecology and conservation at Lancaster Environment Centre use ecological, behavioural and molecular techniques to understand how ecosystems function, how they respond to global change, and how they can be managed to enhance biodiversity and its associated services.
Our work in the hyper-diverse tropics focuses on both forests and coral reefs, where we examine how human activities are influencing species conservation, ecosystem functioning and the livelihoods of local people. Within reefs, this research examines how bleaching events influence fish assemblages, ecosystem stability, and ecosystem recovery. Within tropical forests, we are examining how fires and logging influence species of conservation concern and forest resilience.
We are investigating how environmental change affects insect biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services such as pollination and pest control. We undertake observational studies on how individual species and whole communities are responding to climate change and habitat degradation and use field manipulations and lab experiments to unravel the mechanisms underlying their responses.
We are studying the ecological and evolutionary interactions between parasites and their animal hosts. This includes fundamental studies of how the immune system evolves and phenotypically responds to challenges by parasites, as well as the development and use of biological pesticides to improve food security. Study systems include insects, birds and mammals and their bacterial, viral and nematode parasites in the UK and Africa, especially African armyworms and their viruses.
We examine breeding and behavioural ecology using birds as a readily observable group of species which can provide data at the level of the individual. These studies allow us to understand life-history constraints of species in the face of climate change, and explore fundamental questions such as parent-offspring conflict, song development and sibling competition.
We examine carbon cycling across many terrestrial systems, including tropical and temperate forests, grasslands and moorlands. The research examines how climate, soil, microbes and biogeochemistry interact to affect nutrient cycling, developing an understanding of how ecosystems function and quantifying their likely feedbacks with climate change.
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