Research

The Department's research is diverse in terms of study organisms and levels, ranging from physiology and species to populations, communities and ecosystems which can be grouped into the following scientific areas:

• Plant agro-biotechnology
• Agroecology
• Biodemography and human ecology
• Biogeography
• Biogeochemistry
• Applied animal biology
• Evolutionary biology
• Marine biology and ecology
• Biodiversity mapping and databases
• Biodiversity conservation
• Plant ecophysiology
• Population ecology
• Community ecology
• Landscape ecology
• Forest ecology
• Animal ecology and behaviour
• Ecotoxicology
• Soil ecology
• Human evolution and primatology
• Environmental plant physiology
• Plant physiology and stress
• Human genetics and epidemiology
• Environmental management and restoration
• Limnology / Biology of inland water organisms
• Paleoecology / Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
• Systematics