We are a group of scientists interested in understanding how human-induced land use changes affect biodiversity and ecosystem services – the benefits humans obtain from nature. We use spatial and statistical modelling techniques to quantify the complex, often scale-dependent relationships between the social, ecological and economic drivers of the distributions of ecosystem services and biodiversity. Most of work is focused on using existing datasets (i.e. remotely sensed data and census records) but also includes collecting primary data on some occasions.
The group is led by Felix Eigenbrod, who is a lecturer in ecology and ecosystem services in the Centre of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. Felix is also co-chair of the interdisciplinary Sustainability Science at Southampton (SSS) research grouping in Southampton (add link once live), and a member of the interdisciplinary Institute for Life Sciences (IfLS).
We are funded by NERC (through the ESPA and UKERC programmes), BBSRC, DEFRA, Natural England, Countryside Council for Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage, and the Taiwanese government.
