So, what am I working on?...

I am investigating how wildlife responds to environmental pressures such as climate change and habitat loss.


Through the conversion of large areas of countryside into farmland and towns, many animals and plants have lost areas of their original habitat. This affects how many organisms survive, how they move and how they interact. When combined with a changing climate it is highly likely that a range of organisms are going to be effected, causing biodiversity loss and altering ecosystems.


Saturday, August 29, 2009

INTECOL Conference: Towards the end of the week

Today the focus of the talks I attended were based around climatic modelling and landscape ecology. Two topics which I am yet to find out much about, but should form a fundamental part if my research towards the end of year 2-3.

Landscape ecology is a fairly new science and it is one which is becoming increasingly integrated with social sciences to understand what influences humans are having on the ecosystem at a landscape scale (i.e. smaller than a global scale but larger than an individual scale). I particularly enjoyed meeting people based in the Amazon, Australia, USA, Tasmania, UK, The Basque Country and France spanning fields as wide as ecological professor to biological photographer.




Tomorrow…bat walk in the nearby forest…
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