Alongside being a media for plant growth soils provide many other essential ecosystem services, such as: storing carbon, regulating greenhouse gases, recycling nutrients, buffering pollutants… Read More »Whole genome metagenomics to determine land use effects on soil ecosystem services
The decline of Afro-Palearctic migrant bird populations is a major challenge facing European biodiversity. Avian population trends are important indicators of environmental change and used… Read More »Understanding population declines in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds
In the last decade, polar regions have seen rapid climate change. From the sea ice loss and impact on polar bears in the Arctic to… Read More »Tracking trends in upper ocean mixing around Antarctica
Now that humanity has cleared or damaged at least three-quarters of the world’s primary forests, the regrowth of tropical forests play a key role in… Read More »The regrowth of tropical forests: remote sensing functional traits of the forest succession
We mostly enjoy the coast by visiting the beach, which, apart from the waves and tides, can seem quite static. Viewed from the air, however,… Read More »The dynamics of “ness” sediment spits
Tropical forests are a major global carbon sink and account for a third of the carbon fixed globally by photosynthesis. Recent research in South America… Read More »Spatial and temporal patterns of liana success in Malaysia
Global circulation models predict that severe and widespread drought will occur throughout Europe. Soil is the largest carbon pool of the terrestrial biosphere and is… Read More »Role of dark septate endophytes and ericoid mycorrhiza in ecosystem resilience to chronic drought
Global warming poses grave risks for society and ecosystems. To date, mitigation efforts have been insufficient to prevent greenhouse gas emissions from continuing to rise.… Read More »Risks to global water resources from geoengineering the climate with solar radiation management
Why is this research exciting? The relationship between plants and mycorrhizal fungi is central to the maintenance of plant growth and ecosystem productivity worldwide. Mycorrhizal… Read More »Quantifying the function of mycorrhizal associations under altered resource availability
This project brings together the paleoclimate data and modelling communities to test ways of comparing data on past climate change with modelled scenarios of that… Read More »Proxy-data climate-model comparisons using lake-isotope records of the last 2000 years