2024/25
- Merry Crowson
Capitalising on the Big Data era: establishing a multi-source monitoring framework for England's natural capital assets and flows. - Daisy O'Neill
Predicting the ecological impacts of species on the move with climate change in the UK.
2023/24
- Katie Beckmann
Wildlife health for conservation translocations: refining approaches to risk analysis and decision making through waterbird case-studies. - Katherine Bickerton
Modelling the monitoring and management of cryptic threatened lizard species in Mauritius. - Zoe Dennehy
Climate and speciation in the Mediterranean: a focus on Narcissus L. - Joshua Elves-Powell
Themes of human-carnivore coexistence on the Korean Peninsula, with a focus on consumptive use. - Benjamin Evans
Towards an automatic camera trap pipeline. - William Farren
The impact of megafaunal loss and climate change on ecosystem functions in aridland ephemeral river systems. - Anna Jemmett
Conservation genetics and population surveys of the critically endangered wild camel Camelus ferus in Mongolia. - Christopher Kerry
Multidisciplinary approaches for the effective management of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in large scale Marine Protected Areas. - Alexandra North
Nuanced impacts and social perceptions of a non-native newt introduction in the UK. - Harrison Ostridge
Local genetic adaptation in chimpanzees. - Jonathan Rees
Artificial Intelligence and Camera Trapping: Investigating computer-based approaches to accelerate camera trap data processing. - Vittoria Roatti
Understanding constraints on horizontal and vertical information transmission in baboons: implications for the evolution of culture. - Melissa Schiele
A multiuse water-landing fixed-wing unoccupied aerial vehicle for use in small island developing states and beyond; development, operations, and methods. - Jessica Turner
Hedgehogs in Greater London: investigating fragmented populations in urban environments. - Jake Williams
Not just corals and fishes: seeking indicators of ecosystem stress in coral reef microbiomes. - Francis Windram
Extracting the morphometrics of nature’s physical networks: from spider webs to root systems.
2022/23
- Steven Allain
Population dynamics, disease and other drivers in a wild snake population. - Lola Brookes
Reduction and refinement of non-model amphibians used in amphibian disease testing. - Richard Cornford
Model development and automated data collation for global biodiversity indicators. - Elise Damstra
Using acoustic remote sensing to monitor coffee farm biodiversity. - Aline Da Silva Cerqueira
Acoustic tracking of ocean wanderers: Revealing Behavioural Context on the Wing. - Shawn Dove
Improving the robustness and reliability of population-based global biodiversity indicators. - Nicholas Dunn
Advancing eDNA methods for monitoring sharks and rays. - Laura Duntsch
Genomic insights into the adaptive potential of the hihi (Notiomystis cincta), a threatened Aotearoa New Zealand bird. - Charlotte Ford
New approaches to the detection and evaluation of Ranavirus infection. - Kirsty Franklin
Drivers of ocean movement patterns in Round Island petrels. - Phoebe Griffith
Headstarts and setbacks: an evidence-based approach to conservation of an evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered crocodylian, the gharial. - Phillip Jervis
Self medication: Using amphibian skin secretions to explain discrepancies in their response to infectious disease and predation. - Ashleigh Marshall
Why do eggs fail? An investigation into hatching failure in wild and managed bird populations. - Louise McRae
Towards a greater understanding of global vertebrate population trends. - Fay Morland
Drivers of female reproductive failure in the hihi, Notiomystis cincta. - Liam Nash
Aquatic-terrestrial linkages in tropical and temperate riparian ecosystems. - Danielle Norman
Species interactions: camera traps, machine learning and habitat disturbance. - Theresa Robinson
Assessing the past and future impacts of conservation management on the population biology of the endangered Mauritius Fody Foudia rubra. - Margaux Steyaert
Drivers and diversity of coral reef cryptofauna communities. - Nina White
Understanding the dynamics and determinants of recovery of a regionally iconic wild food resource following its near-extinction due to infectious disease.
2021/22
- Gonzalo Albaladejo Robles
Understanding how terrestrial vertebrate life-history strategies shape responses to climatic seasonality and landscape heterogeneity. - Bryony Allen
Transmission of amphibian parasites: exploring the influences of host identity and exposure scenario on key transitions in the transmission pathway. - Lucy Archer
Developing a conservation evidence-base for the critically endangered Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis) to inform conservation action in Palawan, Philippines. - Lauren Attfield
Mathematical modelling of the ecological and environmental drivers of zoonotic disease with an application to Lassa fever. - Matilda-Jane Brindle
Autosexual behaviour in primates: form, phylogeny and function. - Ella Browning
Improving the understanding of bat population trends in Great Britain. - Peter Carr
Exploring the benefits of a tropical, large-scale marine protected area for breeding seabirds. - Claire Collins
Human dimensions of non-compliance in a large-scale Marine Protected Area. - Sérgio da Silva Henriques
Protecting the unknown: towards assessing extinction risk in megadiverse groups. - Rosalind Gleave
Building a conservation evidence base for the critically endangered blue-crowned Laughingthrush Pterorhinus courtoisi. - Susannah Gold
Implications of non-lethal rabies exposure in domestic dogs and African wild dogs for disease dynamics and control. - Alice Haughan
Investigating the impact of climate change, land use change, and their interactions on forest loss in India. - Sean Jellesmark
Measuring the impact of conservation on species’ populations. - Lizzie Jones
The role of shifting baseline syndrome in the management of animal populations. - Stephen Long
The sustainability of deep-sea fishing in Greenland from a benthic ecosystem perspective: the nature of habitats, impacts of trawling and the effectiveness of governance. - Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton
Making better decisions for the conservation of threatened species: science, values and New Zealand’s rarest bird. - Joseph Millard
Causes and consequences of global pollinator biodiversity change in the Anthropocene. - Helen Muller
Contentious conservation: Understanding the socio-ecological impacts of trophy hunting in sub-Saharan Africa. - Christopher Owen
Global genomic diversity of a major wildlife pathogen: ranavirus, past and present. - Henrike Schulte to Bühne
Do climate and land use changes interact to precipitate biodiversity loss? - Yara Shennan-Farpón
Restoration pathways for Brazil’s Atlantic Forest: finding co-benefits for people and biodiversity. - Michael Williamson
The environmental drivers influencing the movement networks and ecology of reef sharks in the Chagos archipelago.`
2020/21
- Caitlin Andrews
Foraging for a foothold: causes and consequences of dietary variation in a threatened avian pollinator. - Paul Barnes
Knowledge and conservation in the Cyclops Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia. - Liam Fitzpatrick
Mosquito ecology and the epidemiology of vector-borne avian pathogens in Galápagos. - Heidi Ma
Local perceptions of biodiversity loss and conservation: insights from rural communities around a key protected area in Hainan, China. - Daniel Nicholson
Colonisation, phenotypic change, and survival: Anolis introductions in Panama. - Alexandra Peñafiel-Ricaurte
Ecology of Ranavirus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection: assessing the roles of invasive aquatic species and seasonality. - Jonathan Rio
A revision of the evolutionary relationships of Crocodylia. - Rosie Williams
Persistent organic pollutants: assessing the threat to cetaceans.
2019/20
- Mario Alvarado-Rybak
Epidemiology of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Chile and the role of the invasive African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a vector. - Judith Ament
Human-wildlife coexistence in a changing environment. - Stephanie Brittain
Integrating local knowledge into wildlife population monitoring. - Deborah Fogell
Measuring the effects of supplementary feeding and biosecurity on the trajectory of a threatened avian population. - Cally Ham
The ecology of pathogen transmission between wildlife and livestock. - Samuel Jones
Towards a mechanistic understanding of elevational range occupation and territorial behaviour in tropical montane songbirds. - Alexander Knight
The conservation genetics of hihi (Notiomystis cincta) and epidemiology of coccidian infection. - Cassandra Raby
Understanding drivers of parasite infections in baboons: insights across multiple levels, from populations to genetics. - Thomas Smallwood
Modelling infectious disease in threatened wildlife to inform conservation management.
2018/19
- Kieran Bates
Drivers underpinning heterogeneity in host-pathogen systems. - Adam Britton
Assessing human impacts on Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish communities. - Philip Chapman
Prospects for mammals in Borneo's selectively-logged tropical forests: looking beyond species richness and abundance. - Anthony Dancer
On the evaluation, monitoring and management of law enforcement patrols in protected areas. - Guilherme Ferreira
Camera trapping Cerrado mammals: assessing protected area effectiveness, influence of anthropogenic pressure and the occupancy-abundance relationship. - Victoria Franks
Effects of early-life social experiences on learning and conservation in a threatened songbird. - Angharad Jones
The palaeodietary and morphometric responses of Pleistocene spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta Erxleben, 1777) to environmental changes in Europe. - Agnese Marino
Coexistence with large carnivores in the north west of Spain. - Claudia Martina Luna
Individual differences in cognitive abilities and task performance in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). - Lisa Mogensen
Identifying key threats and conservation requirements for the Critically Endangered Yangtze finless porpoise. - Daniella Rabaiotti
The impact of climate change on a tropical carnivore: from individuals to species. - Rebecca Short
Disentangling the net: the socio-ecological dynamics of mosquito net fishing. - Donal Smith
The drivers of variation in susceptibility to the amphibian-killing fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. - Fiona Spooner
Predicting population trends under environmental change: comparing methods against observed data. - Gemma Taylor
Improving the recovery efforts of threatened species. - Joseph Taylor
Exploring the implications of climate trends and extreme weather events for species conservation in Mauritius.
2017/18
- Lewis Campbell
An investigation into the impacts of an emerging viral pathogen on wild populations of U.K. common frog (Rana temporaria). - Charlotte Clarke
Investigating the host-parasite dynamics of a novel amphibian dermocystid disease in an isolated population of palmate newts in the UK. - Sally Faulkner
Integrating GIS approaches with geographic profiling as a novel conservation tool. - Marc Fernandez Morron
- Helen Gath
Conservation management of the endangered Mauritius parakeet, Psittacula echo. - Gianfranco Gliozzo
Leveraging the value of crowdsourced geographic information to detect cultural ecosystem services. - James Hansford
Diversity and extinction in Aepyornithidae. - Anne Hilborn
The effect of individual variability and larger carnivores on the functional response of cheetahs. - Sahil Nijhawan
Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh, India. - Helen O'Neill
Making connections: conserving landscapes for wide-ranging species.
2016/17
- Dominic Bennett
An appraisal of the 'Living Fossil' concept. - Katherine Booth-Jones
Distribution and gene-flow in a hybridising population of Pterodroma petrels. - Clare Duncan
Mangrove forest ecosystem services: biodiversity drivers, rehabilitation, and resilience to climate change. - Andrew Jacobson
Large carnivores under threat: investigating human impacts on large carnivores in East Africa. - Freya Jephcott
Inefficient responses to unlikely outbreaks: a case study of a supposed monkey-borne virus outbreak in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. - Natoya Jourdain
New analytical methods for camera trap data. - Gwen Maggs
The ecology and conservation of wild and reintroduced populations of the critically endangered Mauritius olive white-eye Zosterops chloronothos. - Kirsten McMillan
Epidemiology of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, across multiple spatial scales. - Felix Mkonyi
People and predators: Understanding human-carnivore conflict in the Tarangire-Simanjiro ecosystem, northern Tanzania. - Elizabeth Moorcroft
Paws for thought: assessing the efficacy of monitoring techniques for rare and elusive species. - David Orchard
The population structure and demography of Triturus cristatus in agricultural landscapes of North-West England. - Leandro Patino
Evolution and community structure of parasites in Galápagos giant tortoises. - Silke Riesle Sbarbaro
The persistence and zoonotic emergence of viral infections in fruit bats in Ghana. - Andrés Valenzuela Sánchez
Is chytridiomycosis a threat to the Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma darwinii)? A multi-approach disease risk assessment. - Juliet Wright
The role of livelihood interventions within complex social-ecological systems.
2015/16
- Claudia Amphlett
The impacts of extreme climatic events on pastoralists and predators in East African rangelands. - Alice Baniel
Conflicts over reproduction in a wild social primate, the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus). - Emily Bell
Phenotypic plasticity and the origins of castes in eusocial insects. - Anne-Sophie Bertrand
Characterization and conservation of the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil. - David Curnick
The role of marine protected areas in conserving highly mobile pelagic species. - Jeremy Cusack
From inventories to interactions: inferring mammal community patterns and processes from camera trap data. - David Daversa
Movement and parasitism in fragmented habitats. - Simon Dures
Transfrontier lion conservation: Applying genetics across time and space. - Ellie Dyer
A global study of the distribution and richness of alien bird species. - Ben Garrod
Primates of the Caribbean: using historical-era introductions of monkeys in the Lesser Antilles to understand rates of island evolution. - Michael Hudson
Conservation management of the mountain chicken frog. - Gita Kasthala
Resilience within a highland freshwater socio-ecological system: the crayfish of Lake Paniai, Papua Province, Indonesia. - Alexander Lee
The evolutionary ecology of animal information use and social dominance. - Sean Morrow
The effects of DNA damage caused by sperm cryopreservation in Xenopus. - Kate Richardson
Dispersal: the effects of phenotype and habitat selection in reintroduced populations. - Goncalo Rosa
Impact of emerging diseases on amphibian assemblages. - Su Shan
The bird trade in Taiwan: an analysis of an Eastern pathway to biological invasion. - Richard Suu-Ire
Potentially zoonotic viruses in the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) in Ghana. - Veronica Zamora-Gutiérrez
Predicting the impacts of future environmental change on Mexican bats.
2014/15
- Frances Clare
Quantifying the impact of infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on montane populations of Alytes obstetricans. - Murray Collins
Quantifying environmental indicators and assessing performance in tropical forest management. - Julieta Decarre
Diversity and structure of bird and mammal communities in the Semiarid Chaco Region: response to agricultural practices and landscape alterations. - Caitlin Douglas
The distribution and survival of riparian trees along a dammed ephemeral river. - Henry Ferguson-Gow
The evolution of social traits and biodiversity in the ants. - Rosalind Kennerley
The ecology of Hispaniolan solenodon and Hispaniolan hutia in agricultural and native forest systems in the Dominican Republic. - Helen Meredith
Improving the impact of amphibian conservation. - Nadia Richman
Using local informant data and boat-based surveys to improve knowledge on the status of the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica). - Oliver Wearn
Mammalian community responses to a gradient of land-use intensity on the island of Borneo. - Emma Wombwell
Emerging infectious disease and the trade in amphibians.
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