There is an increasing focus on ecology within the Centre, especially in systems ecology relating to ecological restoration, soil ecology, biodiversity and interactions across the entire land use gradient and urban ecology. This has focused on the relationships between ecosystem composition, the importance and development of complexity, function and the emergence of system properties, especially resilience.

Our ability to observe, measure and obtain data on the environment is also becoming increasingly more straightforward and cost effective. As a result, the datasets we obtain are becoming larger and more complex. In the Ecology Group, we develop and apply numerical methods which summarise, analyse and recognise patterns in complex ecological and environmental datasets. We then capture these patterns as models and generate predictions on how the environmental system might behave or respond to external pressures. We use stochastic, statistical and process-based models in both the space and time domain.

Our research

  • Environmental Data Sciences,
  • Agricultural Informatics,
  • Systems modelling.

Current research projects

  • Ecosystem Goods and Services,
  • Digital Soil Mapping,
  • Ecological Indicators,
  • Agricultural Informatics,
  • Systems modelling.

Our research areas

Agricultural Data Sciences

Determining effective Ecological / Environmental Indicators

Operationalising Ecosystem Services