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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
- 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 Barrios M et al.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, Springer Nature, 1-9.
29-04-2025 - Physiological and behavioural responses of aquatic organisms to microplastics and experimental warming
Marchant DJ Perkins DM Jones JI Kratina P
Environmental Pollution, Elsevier vol. 374, 126182-126182.
04-04-2025
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