Ecological Theory

Null and neutral models of ecological networks (Rich Williams)

Understanding food webs: From species traits to network structure (Rich Williams)

Next-generation bioclimate modeling (Greg McInerny and Drew Purves)

The Earth System

• Using 25 Years of Infra-red Satellite Data to Derive a New Global Fire Model. Forests harbour around 60% of the world’s biodiversity and around half of its terrestrial carbon, so there is an urgent need to predict how forests will respond to increased atmospheric CO2, logging and land-use change. This project will collate millions of pre-existing field measurements of trees from national forest inventories into a coherent, user-friendly database and use this data in the development and parameterization of models fire at global scales. (Drew Purves)
• A coupled landscape-scale ecological-atmosphere model for the Andes to Amazon transition (Rich Williams)
• Feedbacks and adaptation in biogeochemical cycles (Rich Williams)