Principal Investigator
Dr David Edwards
Impacts of land-use change on tropical biodiversity
david.edwards@sheffield.ac.uk
PhD Students
Rebecca Senior
Impacts of selective logging on climate microrefugia
rasenior1@sheffield.ac.uk
Illeana Acosta
Managing Amazonian logging to minimize carbon and biodiversity loss
iarceacosta1@sheffield.ac.uk
Joli Borah
Improving carbon-biodiversity co-benefit of shifting agriculture under REDD+
jborah1@sheffield.ac.uk
Matthew Hethcoat
Using remote sensing to detect selectively logged tropical forests
m.hethcoat@sheffield.ac.uk
Manoela SC Machado
Quantifying fire risk in selectively logged tropical forests
m.machado@sheffield.ac.uk
Mike Massam
Forest recovery after selective logging
mike.massam@sheffield.ac.uk
Felix 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
Master students
Gianluca Cerullo
Impacts of restoring logged forests on dung beetles
gcerullo1@sheffield.ac.uk
Callum Nixon
Effects of land-use change on maintenance of hyperdiversity
clnixon1@sheffield.ac.uk
Thomas Pearson
Impacts of logging on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
twpearson1@sheffield.ac.uk
Former Lab Members – gone, but not forgotten!
- Pamela González del Pliego (PhD) Amphibian conservation in the face of land-use change and global warming. pgonzalezdelpliego@gmail.com
- Eleanor Warren-Thomas (PhD): Rubber plantations in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot: habitat loss, biodiversity and economics. em.warren.thomas@gmail.com
- Carlos Aquila Chan Miranda (MRes): Carbon and biodiversity co-benefits of secondary forest in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. cachanmiranda1@sheffield.ac.uk
- Katie M Cook (MBiolSci): Conservation of Brazilian Amazon PAs in the face of logging. bskmc@leeds.ac.uk
- Beth King (MBiolSci): Value of secondary montane tropical forests for ants. beth_king94@hotmail.co.uk
- Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (MRes): The impacts of selective-logging on butterflies in the Brazilian Amazon. gmontejokovacevich@gmail.com
- Fabio Antonio Ribeiro Matos (PhD): Impacts of fragmentation on functional and phylogenetic diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest. fabiomatos82@gmail.com
- Edmund Bashman (MBiolSci): Recovery of amphibian communities in secondary forests of the Tropical Andes. edmund.basham@gmail.com