Research

Overview:

While I mostly work with/on soil fauna, my interests include understanding invertebrate diversity and ecology as well as their responses to climate and anthropogenic change. Recently, I have also been working to understand the diversity, drivers, and distribution of invertebrates in Africa, especially in Nigeria (see my publications).

...but here are pictures of some of the things I have been up or 'down' to :)

2026: I am part of the CarbonWeb team, with Drs. Anton Potapov and Andrei Zuev. We are studying the translocation and stabilisation of carbon in soils. This will form part of my PhD research at the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Germany.

2024: I studied how contrasting peatlands differ in their short-term microarthropod response to warming because they begin with fundamentally different abiotic conditions. This was part of my MSc thesis at the University of Western Ontario, Canada

2023: I studied the effects of experimental warming on oribatid mite composition and body size in boreal peatlands. I found that the effect of warming on oribatid mites is mediated by its effect on soil moisture levels, and that warming in peatlands may favour certain asexual and drought-tolerant species, with an impact on average community body size. This was part of my MSc thesis at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. See the publication here

2020 to 2021: As part of my BSc thesis at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, I studied the effects of oil palm cultivation on soil microarthropod communities.