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Omics analysis of density-dependent disease resistance in a major crop pest (Newton IF: Yutao Xiao)
25/05/2021 → 24/05/2023
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Ecology of Fish Nutrients on Coral Reefs
05/10/2020 → 04/10/2025
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CASE : ENVISION : Wallacea Trust - Catherine Sheppard
01/10/2020 → 31/03/2024
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Impacts of habitat degradation on competitive networks of coral reef predators.
01/10/2020 → 30/09/2022
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Secondary forest permanence in the Brazilian Amazon
01/04/2020 → 31/03/2022
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BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2025
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Behaviourally-mediated shifts in reef fish communities following severe disturbance
01/11/2019 → 30/04/2024
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Butterfly Conservation Award
18/09/2019 → 31/12/2020
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Our common Future Ocean – Quantifying Coupled Cycles of Carbon, Oxygen, and Nutrients for Determining and Achieving Safe Operating Spaces with Respect to Tipping Points (COMFORT)
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
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Identifying the Wintering Grounds of Common Sandpipers in the UK using Stable Isotope Analysis
01/08/2019 → 31/07/2020
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Evaluating fire-induced dieback of Amazonian rainforest
01/07/2019 → 31/12/2024
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ARBOLES: A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience
01/02/2019 → 31/03/2023
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Philip Leverhulme prize
01/11/2018 → 31/10/2023
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Provisioning of ecosystem services and cultural values in the Montane tropics
01/08/2018 → 31/07/2021
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Envision DTP: A multi-scale assessment of secondary forest in the Brazilian Amazon.
02/10/2017 → 31/03/2022
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Envision studentship for Thomas Mondain-Monval
01/10/2016 → 30/06/2020
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Research visiting academic grant -University of Granada (Spain)
01/04/2016 → 30/06/2016
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Linking trophic dynamics and infochemical foodwebs: disentangling the mechanisms underlining above- and belowground multitrophic interactions (TRINFOWEB)
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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ODYSSEA: Observatory of the Dynamics of Interactions Between Societies and Environment in the Amazon
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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Santander mobility award-Lancaster University
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2016
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Tri-trophic interactions in an arid environment: I am I eating what I want or what I can?
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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NERC - Watershed determinants of terrestrial resource use by aquatic organisms across the world's freshwater hotspots
01/09/2014 → …
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Ecosystem carbon and nutrient dynamics under global change
01/04/2014 → …
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Predicting urban food insecurity under climate change in Brazilian Amazonia
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2017
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Santander mobility award-Lancaster University
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2014
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NERC studentship for Lucy Magoolagan
01/10/2013 → 31/03/2017
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Priming of Indirect Defence in Plants
17/06/2013 → 16/03/2014
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Algal Interactions with Freshwater Mussels in the River Ehen
22/03/2013 → 31/03/2020
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Ecological cost of herbivory: disruption of mutualism interactions between plants and pollinators due to herbivores.
15/02/2013 → 15/02/2016
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Integrating Nutritional Immunology
03/02/2013 → 02/02/2016
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Identifying Cost-Effective Reforestation Approaches for Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Sequest
01/01/2013 → 31/12/2013
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Epidemiology and Biological Control of Insect Crop Pests
01/10/2012 → 30/09/2013
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Presentation of the Survey Project Results
17/09/2012 → 30/09/2012
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Ecological Continuity Trust: Establishing a Consortium Application
05/09/2012 → 31/12/2013
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P9004c RIU Extension Phase:Armyworm Control Commercialisation Plan
01/03/2012 → …
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Host Pathogen interactions as a Resource - Competition Problem
07/11/2011 → 06/03/2015
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CASE: Understanding pesticide photdegraduation and persistance in protected crop environments
01/10/2011 → …
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Hannah Giffiths NERC Studentship
01/10/2011 → 08/10/2015
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FP7: LOCDIS
01/09/2011 → 30/08/2014
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NERC - Manipulating the chemosynthetic and photosynthetic support of river food webs
01/01/2011 → 15/07/2015
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BKS- Bridging knowledge systems for pro-poor management of ecosystem services
01/12/2010 → 31/05/2013
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Percy Sladen - Kenyan freshwater decapods: invasive - native interactions
01/10/2010 → 30/09/2014
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NERC - NE/H525911/1
01/09/2009 → 31/08/2011
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The role of antagonist and mutualist interactions in regulating trophic food webs in arid ecosystems
01/01/2009 → 31/12/2012
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Link Project: Perennial field margins with combined ecological and ag
01/12/2008 → 30/11/2013
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Understanding the ways in which climate change could threaten northerly distributed species
01/01/2008 → 31/12/2009
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NERC - Open CASE Organotin trophic transfer in freshwater food webs
01/10/2007 → 30/09/2010
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Understanding potential effects of climate change on dung beetle communities in subtropical rainforest
01/01/2007 → 31/12/2007
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The role of dung beetle assemblages in dung removal and decomposition, secondary seed dispersal, and seed germination along a biogeographical and climatological gradient
01/01/1900 → …
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Ecology and conservation at Lancaster Environment Centre use ecological, behavioural and molecular techniques to understand how ecosystems function, how they respond to global change, and how they can be managed to enhance biodiversity and its associated services.
Our work in the hyper-diverse tropics focuses on both forests and coral reefs, where we examine how human activities are influencing species conservation, ecosystem functioning and the livelihoods of local people. Within reefs, this research examines how bleaching events influence fish assemblages, ecosystem stability, and ecosystem recovery. Within tropical forests, we are examining how fires and logging influence species of conservation concern and forest resilience.
We are investigating how environmental change affects insect biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services such as pollination and pest control. We undertake observational studies on how individual species and whole communities are responding to climate change and habitat degradation and use field manipulations and lab experiments to unravel the mechanisms underlying their responses.
We are studying the ecological and evolutionary interactions between parasites and their animal hosts. This includes fundamental studies of how the immune system evolves and phenotypically responds to challenges by parasites, as well as the development and use of biological pesticides to improve food security. Study systems include insects, birds and mammals and their bacterial, viral and nematode parasites in the UK and Africa, especially African armyworms and their viruses.
We examine breeding and behavioural ecology using birds as a readily observable group of species which can provide data at the level of the individual. These studies allow us to understand life-history constraints of species in the face of climate change, and explore fundamental questions such as parent-offspring conflict, song development and sibling competition.
We examine carbon cycling across many terrestrial systems, including tropical and temperate forests, grasslands and moorlands. The research examines how climate, soil, microbes and biogeochemistry interact to affect nutrient cycling, developing an understanding of how ecosystems function and quantifying their likely feedbacks with climate change.
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