Topic: biodiversity

This scientific meeting examines how tropical-forest ecology can guide green finance while safeguarding biodiversity. Field observations, ecosystem models, economic analysis and restoration evidence connect forest condition, climate resilience, carbon storage and species interactions to nature-based investments. Discussions address additionality, landscape risks, conservation outcomes, measurement and research-informed financial policy. Programme participants include Jedediah Brodie (University of Montana, US); Rebecca Senior (University of Durham, UK); Matheus Nunes (University of Maryland,

The Research Centre for Ecological Change seeks a postdoctoral researcher for two years at Viikki Campus, Helsinki. The project analyses long-term Finnish biodiversity datasets to understand how environmental change alters species co-occurrence. It examines how shifts in seasonal timing and geographic ranges combine to produce new assemblages, using spatial statistics and joint species distribution modelling. The researcher will help define the questions and work with an interdisciplinary team. Starting salary is approximately EUR 3,700 per month, depending on experience, with a six-month tria

The MetaBoxWeb project connects food-web ecology with stream metabolism to explain how biodiversity regulates ecosystem functioning under human impacts. The researcher will synthesize stream and river fish and macroinvertebrate datasets; estimate secondary production; reconstruct quantitative food webs and energy fluxes using allometry, traits and food-web models; and test links between trophic diversity, food-chain structure and productivity. Collaboration with a second postdoc in ecosystem metabolism will connect consumer production to primary production and respiration. This 24-month positi

An open transnational call studies novel ecosystems, their functioning, trajectories of change and equitable sharing of biodiversity benefits. UK researchers may collaborate with international partners under the Biodiversa+ joint call. Mandatory pre-proposals are due on 10 November 2026 at 12:00 CET (11:00 UTC); invited full proposals are due on 16 April 2027 at 12:00 CEST (10:00 UTC). The listed deadline is the mandatory first stage. UK costs may reach £375,000 at full economic cost, with NERC funding 80%, for up to 36 months; this is not a £375,000 cash award.

Professor Amy Dickman established is the joint CEO of Lion Landscapes, which works to help conserve wildlife in some of the most important biodiversity areas of Africa. These areas include some of the most important areas in the world for big cats, but also have an extremely high level of lion killing, as lions and other carnivores impose high costs on poverty-stricken local people. Amy and her team are working with local communities to reduce carnivore attacks, providing villagers with real benefits from carnivore presence, engaging warriors in conservation and training the next generation of

My research interests are centered on animal ecology, and more specifically include the following areas: visual ecology, behavioral ecology, and conservation biology, as well as the interactions between them. My research is question-driven. I answer my questions in a comprehensive manner, using a combination of empirical, theoretical, and comparative approaches. My model species are usually birds, but I have also worked with fish, mammals, amphibians, and insects. ​I was fortunate to enrich my education by attending Universities in different parts of the world. I did my undergraduate, speci

Dr. Sean O'Donnell is a Professor of Biodiversity Earth & Environmental Science at Drexel University, USA. His neuroscience research focuses on how brain structure plasticity & evolution are affected by social behavior, mainly using insects as models. He is also interested in tropical ecology & thermal physiology. He conducts field research & teaches field courses in Central & South America, as well as in the Negev Desert in Israel.