The high Arctic is warming at an alarming rate, disrupting soil carbon, nutrient and hydrological cycles. This is resulting in increased soil microbial activity with… Read More »Destabilisation of terrestrial ecosystems in the high Arctic by extreme winter warming
Palaeoceanographic studies have often focused on understanding how the North Atlantic Ocean responds to and has driven past changes in the global climate-oceanographic system. In… Read More »Constraining palaeoceanographic changes in Pacific meridional overturning circulation (PMOC)
Southeast Asian (SE-Asian) freshwater biodiversity is declining rapidly. This is particularly true for Borneo, renowned for its highly diverse and globally important biodiversity. The situation… Read More »Drivers of tropical freshwater biodiversity: a DNA metabarcoding approach
This project assesses geodiversity-biodiversity relationships and hypothesised drivers, mainly at the Târnava Mare Natura 2000 site, Transylvania (Romania). This landscape of traditionally managed grasslands, including… Read More »Assessing the role of geodiversity in conserving biodiversity in agricultural Eurasian grasslands
In this multidisciplinary, international project you will address novel and exciting questions about the ecological and evolutionary consequences of mitochondrial variation in wild animals. You… Read More »The ecological and evolutionary significance of functional variation in mitochondria in a wild animal
We are looking for a student with interests in Arctic science, microbial ecology and lake ecosystems. Focused on the Kangerlussuaq area of West Greenland, this… Read More »Deepwater gunk and slimeballs: Diversity and function of benthic microbes in West Greenland lakes
Complex species interactions make the impacts of global environmental change difficult to foresee. Understanding the ecological and evolutionary relationships between species, and the way that… Read More »The evolution of mimicry in a changing world: how shifting bumblebee communities affect selection on a colour-polymorphic hoverfly
Climate change may drive the emergence of disease epidemics with severe ecological and economic consequences. Freshwater ecosystems, and their iconic inhabitants such as salmonid fish,… Read More »Fishing for parasite genomes: host-parasite co-evolution of an emerging salmonid disease
Understanding the mechanisms and evolution of drought tolerance in plants is crucial to support the development of drought-tolerant crops, assess the vulnerability of wild species… Read More »Drought vulnerability of the date palm and its wild relatives
Growing awareness of the rapid rate of biodiversity loss, and the ultimate impacts on human wellbeing, has resulted in increasing policy commitments that infrastructure development… Read More »Using ecological theory and data to evaluate and improve industry’s measurement of Biodiversity Net Gain