Research: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
People
Co-ordinating Team
- Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Cluster Co-ordinator - Dr Robert Dunford
Postdoctoral Representative - Timothy Hodgetts
Postgraduate Representative - Ewan MacDonald
Postgraduate Representative
Staff Members
Dr Liana Anderson
Researcher
Dr Richard Bailey
University Lecturer in Geochronology
Dr Pam Berry
College Lecturer and Researcher
Dr Shonil Bhagwat
Course Director, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management
Dr Lauren Coad
Researcher
Jonathan David
Researcher
Dr Chris Doughty
Researcher
Dr Robert Dunford
Researcher
Lucy Erickson
Researcher
Dr Cécile Girardin
Researcher
Dr Richard Grenyer
University Lecturer in Biodiversity and Biogeography
Dr Paula Harrison
Researcher
Dr Paul Jepson
Course Director, MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy
Dr Gavin Killip
Researcher
Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Professor of Ecosystem Science
Dr Toby Marthews
Researcher
Dr Constance McDermott
Researcher
Dr Sam Moore
Researcher
Dr Imma Oliveras
Researcher
Dr Kate Parr
Trapnell Fellow in African Ecology
Terhi Riutta
Researcher
Dr Alistair Seddon
College Lecturer
Dr Helen Suich
Researcher
Dr Tom Thornton
Director, MSc in Environmental Change and Management
Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Professor of Biogeography
Cluster Leader
Graduate Research Students
The Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation research cluster also has a number of graduate research students actively involved in current research.
- Rodrigo Arce
Certified forest industry diversification in the Bolivian Northern Amazon: escaping the staple trap in the forest carbon era - Maan Barua
The political ecology of human-elephant interactions in India - Kathleen Buckingham
Managing green gold: reconfiguring bamboo management for sustainability and to what extent certification creates an arena for change - Abrar Chaudhury
Costing community based adaptation to climate change - Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Understanding the relationship between the leaf life cycle and Earth Observation-derived indices in Amazonian rainforests - Kathryn Clark
The role of landslides in the Peruvian Andes in determining forest ecology and carbon transport - Emily Coffey
A novel multi-proxy approach for investigating 'Doubtful Natives': a case study of the Galápagos Islands - Christopher Coghlan
Gender, ownership rights and food security in the Indian Himalayan districts - Daniel Cooper
Under Mount Roraima: the conservation and development of a sacred landscape - Eden Cottee-Jones
The role of Ficus trees in tropical countryside conservation biogeography - Cecilia Dahlsjo
Unravelling the role of termites in ecosystem functioning in tropical Amazonia - Tahia Devisscher
Sustainable management under changing conditions: enhancing the adaptive capacity of social-ecological systems in tropical forest landscapes - Alexis Gutierrez
Market based incentives and fisheries management - are we targeting the right stakeholders to make them work? - Kate Halladay
Climate and Andean montane forests: the role of clouds - Darren Jeffers
The location of tree refugia in north-western Europe during the full glacial - Lip Khoon Kho
Carbon cycling in Bornean tropical forests - Ewan Macdonald
How can we maximise the contribution of carbon finance mechanisms to deliver biodiversity co-benefits to species and ecosystem conservation? - Ashley Massey
Resilience and adaptive capacity of customary conservation practices in Malaysian Borneo - Thomas Matthews
Analysing, modelling and mitigating the impact of habitat destruction and fragmentation on species diversity: a global perspective - Mari Mulyani
The interplay between the REDD+ mechanism and forest-related institutions in Indonesia - Leticia Ochoa Ochoa
The amphibian meta-community structure in three Mexican landscapes and its relationship with ecological and geographical space - Rocio Urrutia
Assessment of forest ecosystem services under climate and land use change scenarios in Chile
Research Associates
The Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation research cluster also hosts visiting researchers throughout the year and has a number of associated and affiliated non-resident researchers.
- Dr Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib
Visiting Research Associate - Professor John Birks
Distinguished Visiting Scientist - Muriel Bonjean
Visiting Research Associate - Dr Nathalie Butt
Visiting Research Associate - Peter Carter
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Dr Deborah Davenport
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Guy Duke
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Dr José María Fernández-Palacios
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Dr David Galbraith
Visiting Research Associate - Dr Alisdair Harris
Visiting Research Associate - Ariella Helfgott
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Claudia Ituarte-Lima
Visiting Research Associate - Dr Richard Ladle
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Robert H. McNulty
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Dr Mike Morecroft
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Dr Heike Schroeder
Senior Visiting Research Associate - Dr Konstantinos Triantis
Visiting Research Associate

