Sustainable development and women's leadership
Dr Lina Barrios, a postdoc in the Preziosi lab, has recently published work she developed with colleagues from MMU for a project focused...
Mangroves brave the northern cold despite reduced genetic variation
Climate change continues to alter the global environment. One common effect is that existing areas where a species lives can become...
EERC PGR Paper Awards
Every year, the Manchester Metropolitan University's Environmental Research Centre awards three prizes for best paper published by its...
Ecosystem Services and Importance of Common Tree Species in Coffee-Agroforestry Systems
Global coffee production, especially in smallholder farming systems, is vulnerable and must adapt in the face of climate change. To this...
Plant-plant competition influences temporal dynamism of soil microbial enzyme activity
Competition between plants can cause a change in the timing of key processes including nutrient uptake. But we don’t know the effect this...
We have a new logo!
MMU's Ecological Genetics & Conservation research group finally has a logo. The diverse range of topics and study organisms across our...
Grizzly bear hair sampling for DNA analysis
The lower 48 United States host five isolated sub-populations of grizzly bears. Concern regarding the small size of the population in the...
Why you should be using multiple genomes when searching for new microsatellite markers
Microsatellites markers are amongst the real workhorses of molecular ecology techniques. But what to do if markers are not already...
New research published on temporal dynamism by PhD student Emily Schofield
Rowntree lab PhD student Emily Schofield has published the first data paper of her PhD. Emily has written a great blog post about the...
More trips to Ecuador
Undergraduate students Abhiraj Chakraborty and Thomas O'Shea are heading to Ecuador for the first time to begin their placements at the...