Biodiversity and climate change

With increasing pressures on our environment as a result of climate change and anthropogenic impacts, our research aims to increase understanding of the complex human-climate-ecosystem interactions.

The Biodiversity Group in the ECI is at the forefront of integrating and improving techniques for observation and prediction of the environmental change of ecosystems and species.

We are using increasingly sophisticated satellite, photographic and modelling techniques to observe changes in distributions of species and ecosystems at local, regional and global scales.

The Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecology Programme at the ECI forms part of the OUCE Biodiversity Research Cluster.

Senior Research Fellow: Dr Pam Berry

MONARCH: Modelling Natural Resource Responses to Climate Change

• ACCELERATES: Assessing Climate Change Effects on Land use and Ecosystems; from Regional Analysis to the European Scale.
• African Terrestrial Ecology.
• REGIS:Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts in the North West and East Anglia.
• LINK CARBON: Remote Sensing of Carbon Fluxes in Forest Ecosystems.
• Anthropogenic and climate interactions with seagrass habitats in the Seychelles.
• The impacts of invasive species on endemic ecosystems in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
• Business risks of climate change to public sector organisations in Scotland.
• Climate change impacts and adaptation: quantifying the costs of impacts and adaptation.
• Targeted monitoring of atmospheric pollution and climate change impacts on biodiversity.