Results for Environment
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From landscape to soundscape: what drives spatial variation in natural soundscape characteristics?
Natural soundscapes are a fundamental property of the distinctiveness of place and a key pathway for engaging with, and deriving health and well-being benefits from, nature. More c...
Natural Flood Management : Quantification and Modelling
"Due to climate change, across the UK, the frequency and severity of extreme weather events will increase, sea levels will rise, summers will become warmer and drier, and...
Biodiversity, Ecology & Evolutionary Processes
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Bird life in the Anthropocene: understanding convergent adaptation to urbanisation
Urbanisation is a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st Century. Over 4 billion people inhabit urban spaces and by 2050, this is predicted to increase by a further 2.4 billion....
Citizen science and the ecology of urban mammals and birds
Compared with groups like birds, many wild mammal species in Britain are relatively cryptic and tend to avoid humans, making them difficult to survey effectively. As well as making...
How is climate change driving the re-emergence and evolution of anthrax
Bacillus anthracis is the spore-forming bacteria which causes Anthrax. It persists in the environment as inert spores which are ingested/inhaled by susceptible grazing animals. Ger...
African Climate Dynamics: Convection Over the Congo Basin
The Congo Basin, hosting the world's second-largest tropical rainforest, plays a critical role in global climate circulation, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity conservati...
Migration, movement and the effects of hunting on birds in a changing world
Scientific background Many European bird species are hunted, but the role of hunting as a causal factor in population declines relative to habitat loss and climate change is unclea...
Biodiversity dynamics across environmental gradients and under impending environmental change
We live in a time of radical changes and rapid biodiversity loss.To make better predictions of the impacts of anthropogenic change on the world's declining biodiversity, it is...
Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Training Opportunities 2023 (CEETOP 2023)
Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils.For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https:/...
Spatiotemporal dynamics of tropical bats in a land-bridge island system: a 20-year assessment
Destruction and degradation of natural ecosystems are key drivers of global biodiversity decline1. In modified landscapes, natural habitats are typically divided into isolated frag...
Plastic Vectors in the Air
Microplastic (plastics
A tephrostratigraphic approach to further understand the Campi Flegrei caldera, Naples, Southern Italy.
The Campi Flegrei is renowned for its diverse eruption activity in magnitude and chemistry over the last 50 kyr, characterised by three main periods: Pre-CI, CI-to-NYT, and post-NY...
Understanding dispersal potential in climate-sensitive species
This project aims to investigate the genomic and demographic effects of climatic changes during large-scale geographic postglacial recolonisation using V. berus as a study model. T...
Novel Assessment Tools for Wave Dampening by Marine and Coastal Vegetation
Coastal vegetation plays an important role in creating habitats, as a carbon sink and by dampening the waves as a natural form of coastal protection. This project aims to improve t...
Environmental histories of grazing and the sustainability of montane ecosystems: a case study in Snowdonia, North Wales
The project will investigate the environmental history of montane heath in the Carneddau mountains, North Wales. This fragile landscape is classified as being in an unfavourable co...
Zoonotic Pathogen Growth Rate - A Marker for Disease Virulence and Therapy Resistance.
The Challenge: Fasciola hepatica (or the liver fluke) is a zoonotic pathogen that causes the disease fasciolosis in animals and humans. Control is precarious and in the absence of...
Second Chance Solar System: Titan Under a Red Sun
All stars have a finite lifespan.In ~5 billion years the Sun will begin its ascent onto the red giant branch, signalling the beginning of the end, and swelling in size until it has...
Research Skills in Entomology
Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils.For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https:/...
Alternative splicing as an evolutionary driver of phenotypic plasticity
Evolutionary change is encoded in genomes - the sequence of four nucleotides determines the biodiversity between and within species on our planet.On the surface, genomic variation...