Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services

Biodiversity


Biodiversity is essential for human survival. It provides basic necessities such as food and fuel, as well as benefits such as medicines and other natural products, breakdown of waste and crop pollination.  Many of the free services that humanity receives from the natural world, increasingly referred to as ecosystem services, can only be sustained if there is a diverse biological community. Conserving biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in the face of threats like climate change is a key challenge and requires knowledge at scales ranging from the intracellular to the global, with our research focussing on the following:


  • Conservation of biodiversity
  • Sustainable management of biodiversity
  • The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Climate and land use change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Management of marine fisheries and coastal wetlands
  • How to mitigate human impacts on ecosystems
  • Economic valuation of ecosystem services
  • Landuse priorities and sustainable land management

Associated Staff

Barb Anderson, Biology

Kathryn Arnold, Environment

Mike Ashmore, Environment / SEI-Y

Colin Beale, Biology

Bryce Beukers-Stewart, Environment

Jo Beukers Stewart, Environment

Nigel Boatman, FERA

Cecile Brugere, SEI-Y

Neil Carter, Politics

James Chong, Biology

Steve Cinderby, SEI-Y

Matthew Collins, Biology, BioArCh

Bipasa Datta, Economics

Calvin Dytham, Biology

Lisa Emberson, SEI-Y

Julia Ferrari, Biology

Alastair Fitter, Biology

Sue Hartley, Biology

Andreas Heinemeyer, SEI-Y

Thorunn Helgason, Biology

Kevin Hicks, SEI-Y

Jane Hill, Biology

Angela Hodge, Biology

Jenny Hodgson, Biology

Michi Hofreiter, Biology

Meg Huby, SPSW

Phil Ineson, Biology

Sarah Knight, FERA

Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI-Y

Rob Marchant, Environment

Andy Marshall, Environment

Nilafur Matin, SEI-Y

Peter Mayhew, Biology

Colin McClean, Environment

Olivier Missa, Biology

Alistair Murray, FERA

Terry O'Connor, Archaeology

Kirsty Penkman, Chemistry, BioArCh

Jon Pitchford, Biology, YCCSA

Dave Raffaelli, Environment

Stefan Reidinger, Biology

Callum Roberts, Environment

Pete Robertson, FERA

Jennifer Rowntree, Biology

Murray Rudd, Environment

Katherine Selby, Environment

Samarthia Thankappan, Environment

Chris Thomas, Biology

Sylvia Toet, Environment

Corrado Topi, SEI-Y

Harry Vallack, SEI-Y

Chris West. SEI-Y

Sarah West, SEI-Y

Piran White, Environment

Nick Worsfold, Politics

Peter Young, Biology