Biodiversity shifts in a changing world

Our vision​

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Biodiversity is shifting in response to climate change, land-use change, invasive species and other human pressures. These changes are altering where species occur, how communities are assembled, and how ecosystems function.

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We study biodiversity change across space and time. We combine biogeography, ecology, environmental histories and predictive modelling to understand how species, communities and ecosystems respond to environmental change, from past ecosystems to present-day shifts and future scenarios.

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Our goal is to develop ecological knowledge, tools and collaborations that support conservation decisions in a rapidly changing world. We are especially interested in how biodiversity responds to novel and uncertain conditions, including changing climates, transformed landscapes and seascapes, altered disturbance regimes and emerging no-analogue ecosystems.