Welcome to The Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability
The Centre integrates world-leading expertise in environmental sciences, ecology, and plant biology around the themes of biodiversity and sustainability. Developing and building on our understanding of fundamental facts and principles, we seek solutions for a sustainable future with solid scientific foundations.
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26-08-2024
Faculty of Science and Engineering
15-05-2024
Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability
Recent Publications
- A neonicotinoid pesticide causes tissue-specific gene expression changes in bumble bees
Witwicka A, López-Osorio F, Chaudhry-Phipps H and Wurm Y
The Science of The Total Environment, Elsevier vol. 959
01-01-2025 - Introducing a global database of entomopathogenic fungi and their host associations
De Wint FC, Nicholson S, Koid QQ, Zahra S, Chestney-Claassen G, Seelan JSS, Xie J, Xing S, Fayle TM and Haelewaters D
Scientific Data, Springer Nature vol. 11 (1)
21-12-2024 - Genome size influences plant growth and biodiversity responses to nutrient fertilization in diverse grassland communities
Morton JA, Arnillas CA, Biedermann L, Borer ET, Brudvig LA, Buckley YM, Cadotte MW, Davies K, Donohue I, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Estrada C, Haider S, Hautier Y, Jentsch A, Martinson H, McCulley RL, Raynaud X, Roscher C, Seabloom EW, et al.
Plos Biology, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 22 (12)
11-12-2024
Recent Grants
- Pump prime I2BC (France) QMUL (UK) photosynthetic improvement
Guy Hanke and Conrad Mullineaux
£4,118 DSIT Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
06-01-2025 - 16-03-2025 - The molecular basis of viral tolerance in bats
Stephen Rossiter
£511,378 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
19-11-2024 - 18-11-2027 - Transforming meiofaunal molecular systematics and community ecology through nanopore-based transcriptome skimming
Yannick Wurm
£79,493 NHM Natural History Museum
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028