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Understanding rapid changes in Earth's magnetic field: timing, spatial extent, and causes of geomagnetic spikes and excursions
Earth's constantly changing magnetic field is generated by the geodynamic motion of electrically conductive fluid in Earth's outer core.Rapid and extreme changes of the f...
The river restoration 'ecological toolbox': examining biomonitoring indices to guide catchment management strategies
This project will develop an 'ecological toolbox' that identifies primary stressor(s) stressing river ecosystems and the likelihood of promoting ecological recovery follo...
A global assessment of functional biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene
Human activity has led to widespread loss of biodiversity globally. Changes in biodiversity have traditionally been quantified based on the disappearance, that is the extinction, o...
Mapping Antarctic Marine Micobial Biodiversity
Classifying bacteria and AMR genes found in animal scat samples, and in future water samples, using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and antimicrobial assays.
Understanding Arsenic removal processes: passive treatment systems as proxies for natural environments
Groundwater in many regions of the world, including parts of the UK, contains high Arsenic (As) concentrations.Arsenic is toxic also at low concentrations and, unfortunately, groun...
Conserving the African Wild Dog in a Changing Climate
Climate change has been established as a prominent threat to biodiversity, with observed impacts including alterations in species' distributions, phenology, and demography, an...
Reconciling lethal control of an iconic native species (red der Cervus elaphus) with nature conservation within a multiple-use landscape.
In this project we will use the Lake District red deer population case study to develop a model for stakeholder engagement with the purpose of gaining consensus among stakeholders...
Evolutionary ecology of the Phytophthora austrocedri - Juniper (Juniperus communis) pathosystem
Dynamics of the interaction between Juniper and the serious invasive pathogen Phytophthora austrocedri, including ecology & quantitative genetics of susceptibility in the h...
How did Earth's early continental crust form? Insights from Western Australian cratons
The formation of Earth's first continents during the Archean eon is one of the major transformations that our planet has experienced throughout its history.Continent formation...
Risks of Medicines Used in Companion Animals to Urban Biodiversity
Ecological impacts of companion animal pharmaceuticals have had limited consideration in the approval process despite the toxicity to exposed non-target organisms.This being due to...
Constraining relationship between mantle convection and supercontinent cycles
Supercontinent cycles have been the notable feature of Earth's surface evolution.They have important since they have influenced such processes as mountain building, rapid clim...
Formation of highly evolved melts on the Precambrian Earth
The secular evolution of Earth's continental crust is marked by a distinct change in properties and composition between 3.2 and 2.5 Ga (Arndt 2013; Brown et al. 2020; Nebel et...
Ice Sheet - ocean interactions: Using satellite data to understand ice dynamic change
Ice Sheet - ocean interactions: Using satellite data to understand ice dynamic change Lead Supervisor: Anna E. Hogg, University of Leeds (UoL) Co-Supervisors: Pierre Dutrieux, Brit...
The evolution of war and peace in animal societies
The evolution of cooperation is one of the great puzzles of biology and lies at the heart of current attempts to understand the evolution of complex life, from teams of replicating...
Measuring Antarctic uplift due to ice loss, from space
This exciting project will use measurements of ground movement made from space, to constrain the response of the ground to current, and past, ice mass change in the Antarctic. This...
Testing Morphology-Dominance-Performance Framework in Bird Flight
Bird body mass has been decreasing globally over the past 60-years due to the effects of climate change. However, the impact of such chronic body mass decline on flight performance...
Faster, greener, and more competitive? How will vegetation alter in a changing Antarctic?
The unique Antarctic terrestrial vegetation serves as an early warning system in understanding ecosystem responses to climate change. This project evaluates the expansion of Antarc...
Understanding the environmental risks posed by pollution from the digital economy
The growing consumption of materials in our digital society represents an ever increasing waste stream containing novel and complex mixtures of chemicals, including many oxyanion f...
Assessing the ecological value of, and threats to marine protected areas in the Isles of Scilly
Project Background:Marine protected areas (MPAs) can produce a wide range of ecological, economic, and social benefits, which underpin goods and services critical to the wellbeing...
The mechanisms controlling the release, transport, and isotopic composition of trace elements during weathering
The long-term carbon cycle of the Earth is dominated by the effects of mineral weathering, coupled with carbonate precipitation and the burial and oxidation of organic carbon. Thes...