Research Projects
This project studies the resilience of grassland production systems and their capacity to resist, recover and adapt to future environmental change, whilst sustainably producing food for a growing global population.
CBESS is one of four research consortia managed by the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme, a six-year (2011-2017), NERC research programme, supported by BBSRC, designed to answer fundamental questions about the functional role of biodiversity in key ecosystem processes and the delivery of ecosystem services at the landscape scale. Learn more...
This large scale all UK project involving over 50 scientists at 12 UK institutions set out to integrate existing marine data and target new data with current models and knowledge of marine ecosystem services, in order to improve our understanding of the whole UK marine ecosystem. Learn more...
This project focuses on the architecture and diversity of the soil food webs and aims to quantify how the capacity of soils to absorb, recover and adapt to climate and changes in management affect stability and functioning of soil ecosystems. Learn more...
This is a long term project studying the conservation ecology of the Natterjack Toad in Ireland - the project focuses on population demography, drivers of population decline, restoration ecology and conservation. Learn more...