July 2014 – Ambroise Baker's Research

This is just a quick post to highlight the excellent series of radio programmes on the history of plant science, presented by Prof Kathy Willis, who was my PhD supervisor. You can read about it and listen again to this programme from the BBC website by clicking here

About Me

My work focuses on how biodiversity and ecosystems respond to environmental change. Answering this question is critical to developing evidence-based policies to protect biodiversity, the environment and ecosystem services in the current context of global change. New evidences in my research chiefly come directly from field studies in the natural environment such as vegetation surveys and from palaeoecological investigations using biological proxies such as fossil pollen, fungal spore, macrofossil and phytolith.

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I am a Lecturer in Biology, Ecology and Environment Research Group, Teesside University, UK. I was previously a post-doctoral researcher based in UCL (University College London), UK, working on landscape connectivity, biodiversity and ecosystem function in freshwater networks (projects: Lake BESS, Hydroscape). My PhD, completed in the Oxford Long-term Ecology Lab at the University of Oxford, UK, was a contribution to the hotly debated conservation practice of rewilding, using a long-term perspective.

Month: July 2014

History of Botany on BBC 4 – don’t miss out!