Principle 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
Felicity Edwards
Species interactions, ecosystem functioning, and anthropogenic disturbances across the tropics
felicity.edwards@sheffield.ac.uk
Research Data Manager
Mike Massam
Research Data Manager for the Edwards Lab
mike.massam@sheffield.ac.uk
PhD Students
Matthew Hethcoat
Using remote sensing to detect selectively logged tropical forests
m.hethcoat@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
Patrick CannonModelling of forest recovery after selective loggingpcannon1@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
Jørgen Sand Sæbø
Carbon and biodiversity co-benefits in Colombia: Implications for conservation planning and implementation of REDD+
Jorgen.sand.sabo@nmbu.no
Gianluca Cerullo
The benefits and challenges of deploying different restorative interventions in the highlands of Southern Ethiopia
http://gianlucacerullo.com/
Oscar Morton
My PhD research focuses on the scope and value of the legal and illegal trade in wild collected orchids from Colombia.
omorton1@sheffield.ac.uk
Jocelyne Sze
My PhD research focuses on the scope and value of the legal and illegal trade in wild collected orchids from Colombia.
jssze1@sheffield.ac.uk
Muhammad Hafidz Abdullah
Assess the sustainability of timber production in Peninsular Malaysia, to evaluate the role of forest restoration in meeting conservation goals
mhabdullah1@sheffield.ac.uk
Master Students
Cain Agger
The impacts of land use on migratory Afro-Palaearctic birds in West Africa, and how these land use systems may be altered to benefit biodiversity.
cagger1@sheffield.ac.uk
Former Lab Members – gone, but not forgotten!
PhD
- Manoela M Mollinari (PhD 2019): Quantifying fire risk in selectively logged tropical forests. m.m.mollinari@sheffield.ac.uk
- Mike Massam (PhD 2019): Forest recovery after selective logging.
mike.massam@sheffield.ac.uk - Felix KS Lim (PhD 2019): Managing unintended consequences of conservation actions. f.lim@sheffield.ac.uk
- Mohammad Nazrin bin Abdul Malik (PhD 2019): Impacts of seedling densities on Janzen-Connell effects. mnbabdulmalik1@sheffield.ac.uk
- Luke Nelson (PhD 2019) Cost effective conservation of Afro-Palearctic migrant birds in West Africa. ldsnelson1@sheffield.ac.uk
- 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
- Letitia Cookson (MRes 2019) Butterfly morphology and microclimate recovery after selective logging. lcookson1@sheffield.ac.uk
- Christopher Bousfield (MBiolSci 2019) Economic costs of improved logging management under REDD+cbousfield1@sheffield.ac.uk
- Rob Davies (MBiolSci 2019) Neotropical oil palm on dung beetle functional diversity. rdavies6@sheffield.ac.uk
- 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