Atmospheric CO2 is high (over 416 ppm) and rising, and the impacts of this are felt across the globe as climate change. Tropical forests (which contain ~50% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity on only 6% of its land area) may be particularly vulnerable to changing climate. Whilst tropical forests have been absorbing carbon and so […]

You will be based at UKCEH Bangor and Bangor University, joining a dynamic group of forest ecosystem, climate change and air pollution researchers, based in the Environment Centre Wales. You will make use of world-leading pollution control facilities, including a field-release ozone system and the solar domes (https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/research-facilities/solardomes-and-ozone-field-release-system). The work includes relating detailed ecophysiological measures […]

Extreme weather such as floods, heat waves, unusually cold harsh winters are increasingly prevalent across the Northern Hemisphere. For instance, the Thames barrier, designed to prevent flooding of the London floodplain from a combination of high tides and storm surges has been raised 199 times since 1982, well in excess of the originally anticipated 1-2 […]

Greenspaces provide incredible valuable benefits to people. For example, there are over 62,000 urban greenspaces in Great Britain, estimated to provide just over £130 billion to those living nearby. These benefits can be broken down to a variety of services: e.g. food production (£114 million per year), carbon sequestration (£33 million), air filtration (£211 million), […]

Environmental change is causing temperatures to rise across the globe – how this will affect the distribution and abundance of species is therefore an important current focus for ecologists worldwide. An under[1]recognised aspect of climate change is increased overwinter temperatures. While research has focused largely on the impacts of hot periods (i.e. summer) getting hotter, […]

The continental-range of the African elephant has been dramatically reduced and fragmented due to the rapid expansion of human settlements and agriculture, resulting in escalating conflict over access to food and water resources. This is particularly apparent in regions that border national parks with high elephant densities and where neighbouring rural communities rely heavily on […]

The risk of flooding is changing worldwide, associated with population and socioeconomic growth, and climate change. Lowland catchments and estuaries are particularly vulnerable because of high land value and susceptibility to flooding from a combination of rivers, groundwater and the sea. For the UK, these drivers of flooding are not well-resolved and their interactions are […]