Global declines in migrant bird populations are a major threat to the world’s ecosystems. Migrants provide vital ecosystem services at large spatial scales, and avian… Read More »Understanding how habitat quality, insect abundance and aquatic subsidies impact population change in a rapidly declining bird
Poor air quality is the number one environmental health threat in the UK, contributing to ~30,000 deaths per year, while also exacerbating several health conditions.… Read More »UK air pollution futures and their health impacts
Why this project is important: Ensuring grasslands, which cover 40% of the UK, provide a suite of ecosystem goods and services and store natural capital… Read More »Net zero, land use and climate change: what are the ecosystem consequences?
Stress is ubiquitous in UK society (85% of which is urban). However, access to green space is correlated with better quality of life, and can… Read More »Urban greenspace – what attributes determine wellbeing?
Savanna ecosystems occupy 20% of the Earth’s land surface and are characterized by open canopied mixed woodland with a grassy understorey and seasonal rainfall in… Read More »Savanna Soil Carbon: investigating biological climate resilience
Climate change, urbanisation and exploitation of natural resources increasingly alter the environment, posing significant challenges for plants and animals. We have a poor understanding of… Read More »Adapting to extreme environments: Hybridisation and the evolution of contemporary heavy metal tolerance
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) disrupt the chemical equilibrium of the atmosphere causing increased formation of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. The majority of these VOCs… Read More »Filling the emissions gap: Investigating the dynamic contribution of soil volatile organic compounds to temperate and tropical forest atmospheres
This project offers the exciting opportunity to develop fundamental new insight into the certainty of satellite estimates of climate change, with a focus on Earth’s… Read More »A New Framework for Measuring Uncertainty in Satellite Observations of Climate Change
Plants have evolved different versions of photosynthesis to maintain efficiency under diverse environmental conditions. While the vast majority of plants use C3 photosynthesis, some plants… Read More »Diversity and evolution of facultative and constitutive C4 photosynthesis in sedges
Global agriculture is rapidly expanding in response to the growing demand for food, with ‘agricultural frontiers’, such as dry and fertile lands of the Gran… Read More »Nitrogen controls on ecosystem functioning in neotropical dry forests