Principal Investigator
Prof David Edwards
Impacts of land-use change on tropical biodiversity
david.edwards@sheffield.ac.uk
Post-doctoral Researchers
Anne Cotton
Impacts of land-use change on soil in the Tropical Andes
anne.cotton@sheffield.ac.uk
Nelson Grima
Impacts of land-use change on socio-economics and cultural values in the Tropical Andes
Nelson.Grima@uvm.edu
Jacob Socolar
Biodiversity impacts of tropical land-use change across spatial scales
jacob.socolar@gmail.com
Edicson Parra Sánchez
Effects of land-use change on orchids and epiphytes
edicsonparras@gmail.com
Simon Mills
Ecological consequences of environmental change
s.c.mills@sheffield.ac.uk
PhD Students
Matthew Hethcoat
Using remote sensing to detect selectively logged tropical forests
m.hethcoat@sheffield.ac.uk
Manoela M Mollinari
Quantifying fire risk in selectively logged tropical forests
m.m.mollinari@sheffield.ac.uk
Mike Massam
Forest recovery after selective logging
mike.massam@sheffield.ac.uk
Felix KS Lim
Managing unintended consequences of conservation actions
f.lim@sheffield.ac.uk
Mohammad Nazrin bin Abdul Malik
Impacts of seedling densities on Janzen-Connell effects
mnbabdulmalik1@sheffield.ac.uk
Cindy Cosset
Impacts of selective-logging on bird populations
CCPCosset1@sheffield.ac.uk
Emma Hughes
Global change and the future of avian diversity
echughes1@sheffield.ac.uk
Simone Messina
Effects of selective-logging on the stress physiology of birds
Simone.Messina@uantwerpen.be
Luke Nelson
Cost effective conservation of Afro-Palearctic migrant birds in West Africa
ldsnelson1@sheffield.ac.uk
Patrick Cannon
Modelling of forest recovery after selective logging
pcannon1@sheffield.ac.uk
Maria Wang Mei Hua
Minimising ecological and social externalities of tropical agriculture and expansion
mwangmeihua1@sheffield.ac.uk
Emily Khazan
Impacts of land-use change on butterflies
ekhazan@gmail.com
Abdulkareem I. Ahmed
Quantifying, monitoring and minimising the negative environmental impacts of mining in tropical Africa
aiahmed2@sheffield.ac.uk
Catherine Finlayson
Managing climber cutting to protect biodiversity
cfinlayson1@sheffield.ac.uk
Maira Cardoso
Impacts of oil palm in the Amazon
m.cardoso@sheffield.ac.uk
Master students
Letitia Cookson
Butterfly morphology and microclimate recovery after selective logging
lcookson1@sheffield.ac.uk
Oscar Morton
Cost-effectively improving environmental outcomes of shifting agriculture
omorton1@sheffield.ac.uk
Christopher Bousfield
Economic costs of improved logging management under REDD+
cbousfield1@sheffield.ac.uk
Rob Davies
Neotropical oil palm on dung beetle functional diversity.
rdavies6@sheffield.ac.uk
Former Lab Members – gone, but not forgotten!
PhD
- Ileana Acosta (PhD 2019): Managing Amazonian logging to minimize carbon and biodiversity loss ilearce.iaa@gmail.com
- Rebecca Senior (PhD 2018): Impacts of selective logging on climate microrefugia rebecca.a.senior@gmail.com
- Joli Borah (PhD 2018): Improving carbon-biodiversity co-benefit of shifting agriculture under REDD+ joliborah@gmail.com
- Pamela González del Pliego (PhD 2017): Amphibian conservation in the face of land-use change and global warming. pgonzalezdelpliego@gmail.com
- Eleanor Warren-Thomas (PhD 2017): Rubber plantations in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot: habitat loss, biodiversity and economics. em.warren.thomas@gmail.com
- Fabio Antonio Ribeiro Matos (PhD 2016): Impacts of fragmentation on functional and phylogenetic diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest. fabiomatos82@gmail.com
Masters
- Thomas Pearson (MRes 2018) Impacts of logging on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. tom.wp6@gmail.com
- Callum Nixon (MRes 2018) Effects of land-use change on maintenance of hyperdiversity. clnixon1920@gmail.com
- Gianluca Cerullo (MBiolSci 2018) Impacts of restoring logged forests on dung beetles. gcerullo95@gmail.com
- Carlos Aquila Chan Miranda (MRes 2017): Carbon and biodiversity co-benefits of secondary forest in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. aquilamiranda@gmail.com
- Katie M Cook (MBiolSci 2017): Conservation of Brazilian Amazon PAs in the face of logging. bskmc@leeds.ac.uk
- Beth King (MBiolSci 2017): Value of secondary montane tropical forests for ants. beth_king94@hotmail.co.uk
- Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (MRes 2016): The impacts of selective-logging on butterflies in the Brazilian Amazon. gmontejokovacevich@gmail.com
- Edmund Bashman (MBiolSci 2015): Recovery of amphibian communities in secondary forests of the Tropical Andes. edmund.basham@gmail.com