Welcome to The Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability
The Centre integrates world-leading expertise in environmental sciences, ecology, and plant biology around the themes of biodiversity and sustainability. Developing and building on our understanding of fundamental facts and principles, we seek solutions for a sustainable future with solid scientific foundations.
Recent Publications
- Improving the Understanding of Detections From iDNA Surveys in Malaysian Borneo With Multiscale Occupancy Models: A Case‐Study Using Leech Blood Meals
Drinkwater R, Clare EL and Rossiter SJ
Environmental DNA vol. 7 (3)
01-06-2025 - Structure and evolution of photosystem I in the early-branching cyanobacterium Anthocerotibacter panamensis.
Jiang H-W, Gisriel CJ, Cardona T, Flesher DA, Brudvig GW and Ho M-Y
Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America vol. 122 (20)
14-05-2025 - Human land use and non-native fish species erode ecosystem services by changing community size structure
Moi DA, Saito VS, Quirino BA, Alves DC, Agostinho AA, Schmitz MH, Bonecker CC, Barrios M, Kratina P, Perkins DM, Teixeira de Mello F, Figueiredo BRS, Mormul RP, Okada EK and Romero GQ
Nature Ecology & Evolution, Springer Nature, 1-9.
29-04-2025
Recent Grants
- ADB513: Genomic basis of ash health after five and thirteen years’ exposure to ash dieback CFP25_A56
Richard Buggs and Richard Nichols
£130,092 Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
01-04-2025 - 31-03-2028 - The molecular basis of viral tolerance in bats
Stephen Rossiter
£511,378 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
19-11-2024 - 18-11-2027 - Transforming meiofaunal molecular systematics and community ecology through nanopore-based transcriptome skimming
Yannick Wurm
£79,493 NHM Natural History Museum
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028