Welcome to the Conservation Ecology Research Group! We are a group of researchers based at Durham University, in Durham, United Kingdom. Our work ranges from the evolutionary ecology of individual behaviour to the drivers of global biogeographic patterns, usually with a strong applied focus. 
​Recent News

  • Tom has a new paper out in Conservation Letters exploring how we should be managing the wicked problem of conservation conflict. Check out a blog on the paper by co-lead author Chris here! 
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  • Wayne Dawson was successful in getting two grants funded last week-
  1. He got a British Council Newton Fund/FAPESP travel grant to visit Prof. Dalva Matos at Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil), to do some pilot work on interactions between invasive white ginger, soils and Capybara in São Paolo state.
  2. He is a co-I on a grant led by Dr. Rosemary Newton (RBG Kew), funded by the Darwin+ Initiative (DEFRA). This project will monitor the longer-term effectiveness of exotic plant eradication efforts being undertaken on South Georgia Island, and will assess the risk of exotic plant colonisation of recently deglaciated areas.
 
  • Huge congratulations to Pen-Yuan Hsing who won the Overall Student Talk Prize at the Ecology Across Borders 2017 Conference. Pen gave a great talk titled ' Science and citizenship: Capacity building for civic engagement through the MammalWeb citizen science project'.
 
  • Congratulations to Dominic Harmer, who was awarded a small grant from the Peter Evan’s Trust to assist the purchase of an infra-red field scope for use in finding nests of redshank on saltmarshes.

  • Congratulations to Claire Branston, who was awarded a small grant from the Peter Evan’s Trust to support the costs of metabarcoding faecal sacs from nestling blue tits, to identify the prey fed to them at different habitats through the breeding season.
         
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