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Securing a biodiverse planet
This challenge area studies the natural world from individuals to populations and from communities to ecosystems.
This research allows us to identify how biodiversity contributes to the functioning of ecosystems and responds to environmental change, particularly the environmental pressures caused by humans and the consequences for people of biodiversity degradation.
Our main research strengths are in tropical forests, drylands, conservation biology and management, wildlife disease, behavioural ecology, the contributions that biodiversity makes to human wellbeing, and assessing how nature-based solutions can be used to address some of the key global challenges.
Research snapshots
Watch Dr Phil Platts and a team of scientists explore an untouched forest in Mozambique. The Lost Forest | Nobel Peace Prize Shorts
Watch Dr Bryce Stewart describe York's research of Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve. The science of seabed recovery off the Isle of Arran
People
- Dr Oliver Wilson (Group Leader)
- Dr Laura Harrison (Group Leader)
- Dr Tabitha Kabora
- Dr Kathryn Arnold
- Elaine Azzopardi
- Dr Bryce Stewart
- Dr Laura Chapman
- Dr Steve Cinderby
- Dr Alison Dyke
- Professor Lisa Emberson
- Dr Richard Friend
- Dr Andreas Heinmeyer
- Emilie Stokeld
- Professor Mark Hodson
- Dr Eleanor Jew
- Professor Rob Marchant
- Dr Simone Martino
- Dr Andrew Marshall
- Dr Colin McClean
- Dr Robert Mills
- Dr Bethan O'Leary
- Dr Aida Cuni Sanchez
- Professor Lindsay Stringer
- Dr Julia Touza
- Dr Dean Waters
- Dr Chris West
- Professor Piran White
- Paul Hudson
- Xun Zhou
- Rhian Ebrey
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Project spotlights
- Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change
- Brexit and Environment
- Coastal Ecosystem Recovery Financing for the Future
- Development Corridors Partnership
- Sustainable and Equitable Futures for the Colombian Páramos
- Exploring a hidden rainforest in Mozambique
- Forest Restoration and Climate Experiment
- Peatlands and climate change: linking the past with the future
- Peatland-ES-UK
- Peatland Tipping Points