17-10-2025 Just published! New paper led by Dr Brooke Bessesen "The Golfo Dulce yellow sea snake (Elapidae: Hydrophis platurus xanthos) from morphological and molecular perspectives" in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
01-10-2025 Welcome to two new EcCo lab members PhD researchers Phaedra and Carly, both funded by NERC-DFA AI-INTERVENE and co-supervised by me
08-08-2025 New doctor! Congratulations to Kerry Stewart on passing her PhD viva without corrections!!
24-06-2025 Just published! New paper led by Kerry Stewart "Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" in Nature Ecology and Evolution
Human impact on the world’s ecosystems is leading to a widespread and accelerating loss of biodiversity. Our research group is interested in understanding the drivers of this change and finding methods to predict future loss and come up with strategies to halt it. A lot of our work involves analyzing and modelling existing data, but we also "get dirty" sometimes and gather data in the field and lab. Most of the team works on vertebrate species, but our interests are as diverse as life on Earth.
Our lab is in the UK but with a Spanish "jefa" también hablamos español
Version en español: Los impactos del ser humano en los ecosistemas del planeta están llevando a una pérdida generalizada y en aumento de la biodiversidad. Nuestro grupo de investigación busca entender los factores causantes de esta pérdida e identificar estrategias para frenarla. La mayoría de nuestro trabajo consiste en analizar y modelar datos existentes pero a veces también nos ponemos las botas o las batas y salimos al campo o nos metemos en un laboratorio. Solemos trabajar con vertebrados pero nuestros intereses son tan diversos como la biodiversidad de este planeta.
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