Contrats doctoraux

This project seeks to improve understanding of past human-environment relationships in Amazonia, over centennial-millennial timescales. Amazonia’s long-term history is of interest to ecologists, archaeologists and climate scientists alike. Once thought to be a virgin wilderness, home to sparse ...

Forest health is a growing, international concern, with most attention focused on climatic drivers and regions with large tracts of forest cover. By contrast, relatively little is known about how climate change influences forest resilience in landscapes where woodland cover is limited and its ...

The successful candidate will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to explore the genomic diversity of Pleistocene fauna and humans, focusing particularly on the interactions between humans and extinct megafauna, emphasising carnivorous species. This work involves the analysis of hundreds ...

The Roman period was associated with climate and environmental change which to an extent affected the movement and the extent of the Roman occupation (McCormick et al. 2012). In the British Isles the Roman occupation, 1st-5th century AD, led to substantial impacts, which ranged from landscape ...

There is an increasing interest in understanding wildfires in Britain – how they occur, and how frequently they happen. This has, in part, been driven by climate change predictions, particularly how this might alter the expression of fire where their impact is currently limited, such as in ...