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.
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Recent Publications
- Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic
Metheringham CL Plumb WJ Flynn WRM Stocks JJ Kelly LJ Nemesio Gorriz M Grieve SWD Moat J et al.
Science, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 388 (6754), 1422-1425.
26-06-2025 - 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 Rossiter SJ
Environmental DNA, Wiley vol. 7 (3)
01-05-2025 - 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 Kratina P et al.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, Springer Nature, 1-9.
29-04-2025
Recent Grants
- ARIA Landscape Engineering for Biodiveristy Resilience Applications
Axel Rossberg
£16,202 ARIA Advanced Research and Invention Agency
06-10-2025 - 05-01-2026 - Establishing the origin of the invasive pink salmon spawning in Icelandic rivers
J Iwan Jones
£3,100 Natural Environment Research Council
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2026 - 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