Current Research Projects

Floods and droughts: environmental dynamics in the Upper Zambezi Valley
Dr. Sallie Burrough
Prof. Kathy Willis
Leverhulme Trust
An investigation into the long-term disturbance dynamics and resilience of tropical peat swamp forests, to assist with their conservation in the face of oil palm agrilcultural expansion, Borneo, Southeast Asia.
Prof. Kathy Willis
Dr. Lydia Cole
Dr. Shonil Bhagwat
Natural Environmental Research Council
Forest Conservation in a Changing World: using palaeoecology to improve the effectiveness of conservation planning in the Apuseni Mountain, NW Romania
Prof. Kathy Willis
EU framework IV Marie Curie
Restoring native biological diversity in the Galápagos Islands: determination of baseline ecological conditions
Dr. Alistair Seddon
Dr. Cynthia Froyd
Emily Coffey
Prof. Kathy Willis
Natural Environmental Research Council
Long-term forest dynamics in the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Prof. Kathy Willis
Conacyt - Mexican National Council for Science and Technology; Promep; NERC Radiocarbon Laboratory; Linacre College; St Hugh's College; The Vaughan Cornish Bequest from the University of Oxford
Long-term biodiversity change of the Canary Islands
Dr. Sandra Nogué
Prof. Kathy Willis
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Sciences
Prehistoric human impact on the Central African rainforest
Carolina Tovar
Dr. Elinor Breman
Prof. Kathy Willis
Leverhulme Trust; Clarendon Fund; CoForChange
Modelling late glacial / early post-glacial changes in nitrogen cycling and its impact on vegetation
Dr. Elizabeth S. Jeffers
Prof. Kathy Willis
Graduate Research Allowance, Jesus College; Bower's Award, Jesus College
Occurrence of cryptic woody plant refugia in northern Eurasia since the Last Glacial Maximum (25-17,000 yr cal B. P.) to the present
Prof. Kathy Willis
Dr. Marc Macias-Fauria
EU framework IV Marie Curie
Natural variability through time in the Okavango Delta system, Botswana
Prof. Kathy Willis
Lebogang Lebotse
Dr. Sallie Burrough
Dr. Shonil Bhagwat
Commonwealth Scholarship
Long-term vegetation dynamics at the savanna-grassland boundary, South Africa
Dr. Elinor Breman
Prof. Kathy Willis
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Using palaeoecology to address mining/conservation conflicts, Southeast Madagascar
Prof. Kathy Willis
Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation
The Ecological History of Sacred Groves in the Western Ghats, India
Prof. Kathy Willis
Dr. Sandra Nogué
Dr. Shonil Bhagwat
Leverhulme Trust; British Ecological Society
Does Biodiversity Need Conservation or Re-Wilding? Insights from the past
Ambroise Baker
Prof. Kathy Willis
Dr. Shonil Bhagwat
Natural Environmental Research Council
135ka Record of Palaeoclimate and Vegetation Variability for the Southern Beqaa Valley, Lebanon
Darren Jeffers
Prof. Kathy Willis
C.C. Reeves Scholarship, St. Catherine's College
Development of a methodology to quantify UV-B flux through time using UV-B absorbing compounds contained in fossil Pinus spp. sporopollenin
Dr. Elinor Breman
Prof. Kathy Willis
Natural Environmental Research Council; John Fell Fund