Global Biodiversity Change group, University College London
Research
Our groups's research aims to understand how biodiversity is changing in response to recent environmental change, and to predict how biodiversity will change in future. We are also interested in the consequences of biodiversity change for human societies. To address these questions, our group has pioneered new approaches to combine global biodiversity data into state-of-the-art statistical models to understand biodiversity responses to land use, climate change and their interactive effects, and to project these models onto future projections of environmental change. We have also led the development of new databases to understand species' role within ecological communities, and in providing agricultural services such as pollination of crops and predation of agricultural pests. Combining this information has allowed us to make novel global assessments of the consequences of biodiversity change for ecosystems and agriculture.
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Current opportunities
You can always get in touch with a CV if you would like to explore other funding options.
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Latest newsNEW PAPER: Claudia Gutiérrez-Arellano, at the University of Liverpool, led a paper just published in Global Ecology & Biogeography, showing that species that are hard to detect respond more negatively to human land use compared to species that are easier to sample. NEW PAPER: Shunxiang has just published a paper showing how effects of nitrogen deposition on animal biodiversity are mediated by the availability of natural habitat. NEW PAPER: I published a paper as part of our project on land use, climate change and bumblebees, showing complex interactive effects of these pressures and important 'shifted baselines' in natural habitats. NEW PAPER: Silvia has published a paper investigating the complex balance between the effects of agricultural expansion versus intensification on biodiversity. This paper was part of the Trade Hub Project. |
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