Welcome to The Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability
The Centre integrates world-leading expertise in environmental sciences, ecology, and plant biology around the themes of biodiversity and sustainability. Developing and building on our understanding of fundamental facts and principles, we seek solutions for a sustainable future with solid scientific foundations.
News
24-02-2025
Faculty of Science and Engineering
26-08-2024
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Recent Publications
- Physiological and behavioural responses of aquatic organisms to microplastics and experimental warming
Marchant DJ, Perkins DM, Jones JI and Kratina P
Environmental Pollution, Elsevier vol. 374
04-04-2025 - Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change
Cooke R, Outhwaite CL, Bladon AJ, Millard J, Rodger JG, Dong Z, Dyer EE, Edney S, Murphy J, Dicks LV, Hui C, Jones JI, Newbold T, Purvis A, Roy HE, Woodcock BA and Isaac NJB
Science vol. 388
04-04-2025 - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content
González AL, Merder J, Andraczek K, Brose U, Filipiak M, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, Jackson MC, Jochum M, Leroux SJ, Nessel MP, Onstein RE, Paseka R, Perry GLW, Rugenski A, Sitters J, Sperfeld E, Striebel M, Zandona E, Aymes J-C, et al.
Scientific Data, Springer Nature vol. 12 (1)
03-04-2025
Recent Grants
- The molecular basis of viral tolerance in bats
Stephen Rossiter
£511,378 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
19-11-2024 - 18-11-2027 - Transforming meiofaunal molecular systematics and community ecology through nanopore-based transcriptome skimming
Yannick Wurm
£79,493 NHM Natural History Museum
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028 - Accelerated diversification for climate resilient agriculture
Samuel Pironon
£24,088 Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew)
05-08-2024 - 05-04-2027