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Biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • ALARM: Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks with tested Methods
  • Ecosystem Services: England’s terrestrial ecosystem services and the rationale for an ecosystem-based approach
  • EPI: European Pollinator Initiative
  • GEF: Conservation and Management of Pollinators for Sustainable Agriculture through an Ecosystem Approach
  • Ghana: Rapid assessment of pollinator biodiversity in tropical forests
  • Impact of invasive plant species on native wild plants: Solanum species in Lesvos, Greece, as a model system
  • India: Bees, biodiversity and forest livelihoods in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
  • NCEAS: Restoring an ecosystem service to degraded landscapes: Native bees and crop pollination
  • SOILSERVICE: Land use, soil biodiversity and the sustainable delivery of ecosystem goods and services
  • SUSGRAZ II: Sustainable management systems for unimproved neutral grassland
  • The Parrett Catchment: A case study to develop tools and methodologies to deliver an ecosystem-based approach
  • Uganda: Conserving biodiversity in the modernising farmed landscapes of Uganda
PhD projects
  • Michael Adjaloo: Abundance and diversity of insect pollinators in coffee production systems of Ghana
  • Claire Brittain: Impact of pesticides on pollinator biodiversity and provision of pollinator services to crops and rare plants
  • Penny Fletcher: The effect of pollination on the reproduction of wild plants in arable ecosystems
  • Kelly Inward: Soil macrofauna patterns of functional diversity across forest systems
  • Theodore Munyuli: Pollinator biodiversity and economics of pollination services in the coffee-banana systems in Uganda
  • Mark Otieno: The impact of farm management and landscape context on pollinator diversity and delivery of pollination services to crops in Kenya
  • Elisabetta Pirodda: Impacts of local management and landscape context on pollination services of orchard crops in Sardinia
Completed projects
  • Biorhiz: Biotic interactions in the rhizosphere as structuring forces for plant communities
  • Scoping study to assess soil compaction affecting upland and lowland grassland in England and Wales
  • Dorothy Newman: The effect of fire on diversity, abundance and guild structure of coprophagous beetles in the African forest-savanna mosaic
  • Joanne Smith: Soil invertebrates in agricultural systems
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