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Financial Rewards for Improved Biodiversity Outcomes (FRIBO)
It is estimated that environmental mitigation costs are in the region of $1 trillion per year of which ~$120 billion is provided largely by government and charitable foundations. P...
Sustainable Oil Palm farming in Borneo: Uptake and effects of heavy metals and pesticides in the wildlife of the Oil palm plantation affected landscap
The student will work to understand and map the importance chemicals have on wildlife in intensified agricultural zones. The Lower Kinabatangan Floodplain (working from Danau Giran...
The river restoration 'ecological toolbox': simultaneously examining biomonitoring indices to guide catchment management strategies
Significant reductions in the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems have prompted a surge in river restoration efforts in recent decades. However, restoration has often delivered m...
Evaluating the Role of Microplastics as a Vector in Metal Cycling within the Thames Estuary
The ubiquity of microplastics in the natural environment is an area of growing concern. Once microplastics enter environmental systems they interact with surrounding pollutants suc...
Transitions in the evolution of synapsid tails
Mammals are unique among land vertebrates in a number of respects, from their locomotory posture to their ecomorphological diversity. The evolutionary assembly of unique traits beg...
Nitrogen powering life in an active serpentinising system - an analogue to early life on Earth
How did life begin on Earth? While disagreements remain, one thing for certain is that the first life needed water, a source of energy and non-biologically made organic compounds;...
From anther to atmosphere: building a better pollen forecast for human health (ref:4250)
Project Background: Approximately ten million people in the UK suffer from hay fever and pollen allergies. The UK pollen forecast provided by the Met Office is used by millions...
The 3D Pollen Project Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
Pollen is vital to the natural world, and to the sciences which research it. Pollen grains' immensely tough shells are marvels of biochemistry; their varied and beautiful patterns...
Climate change adaptation: Evaluating long-term resilience of the Scottish Marine Protected Area network
Climate change is driving ongoing rapid change in marine environments worldwide, leading to shifts in species' distributions as they track their 'climate envelopes' (the range of c...
Building resilient and future-proofed ecologies in an Anthropocene landscape
Overview: The English Midlands is a highly human-modified landscape that is farmed, managed, and urban, with remnant woodlands. Into these landscapes non-native species have been...
Early Evolution of the Palaeogene Mull Volcano: An Integrated Volcanological, Geochemical and Geochronological Approach
Volcanological and petrogenetic research in the various eroded volcanic centres of the North Atlantic Palaeogene Igneous Province (NAPIP) have greatly informed our understanding of...
Nature's miniature solar panels: the thermal properties of butterfly wing scales and their evolution
The wings of butterflies are covered in thousands of scales that have evolved to serve a range of functions including aerodynamic efficiency, colour signalling, camouflage, hydr...
Cross-disciplinary research for Discovery Science
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because...
Holistic Management to create sustainable, climate change resilient, small-scale fisheries in Jangamo, Mozambique
Small-scale fisheries in the southwest Indian ocean are historically underreported despite comprising 75-80% of the total landings of marine species in Mozambique. Civil and politi...
Investigating the role of larval behavioural ecology in the conservation of an endangered amphibian
The understanding of a species' phenotypic behavioural traits and their flexibility with reference to other biological and environmental factors is more important than ever given t...
Exposure to, and risks from synthetic chemicals in terrestrial and freshwater biota: drivers and consequences of landscape scale variation
The project aims to develop a deeper understanding of the temporal and spatial variation in ecosystem exposure to synthetic pollutants, at a landscape scale, and potential implicat...
The Impact of Climate on Tropical Forests: A natural experiment within the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania
This PhD will use the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania (a global biodiversity hotspot) as a natural experiment. Forests across this mountain range experience a wide range in climate...
Bumblebee conservation in agricultural landscapes - the role of landscape structure and the Environmental Land Management Scheme
This PhD project will examine the role of landscape structure, networks of habitats and the competition between managed and wild pollinators on wild bumblebee conservation in agr...
Next Generation Biosensing for Environmental Management
Toxic contaminants in the environment can be anthropogenic, e.g. drugs, PCBs or naturally occurring, e.g. marine and freshwater toxins, mycotoxins and pathogens. Numerous contamina...
Evaluating the efficacy of particle image velocimetry to estimate surface flow velocity in vegetated rivers
Aquatic plants are prevalent in lowland rivers and they exert a dominant influence on river hydraulics. Flow resistance (via Manning's Roughness Coefficient) has been shown to chan...