Publications

Urban grassland and verge guidelines

Why do we need to change the way we manage urban grass? Although uniformly short grass used to be seen as a sign of good management, people now are becoming more aware of the value of nature and the need for more nature-friendly management techniques. Frequent mowing removes flowers that provide nectar for bees and butterflies. It removes the eggs that butterflies lay on grass stems, crushes caterpillars and other insect larvae, and can kill or injure other wildlife such as frogs, snakes and voles. Our guidance booklet outlines Best Practice for managing these spaces.

McDermott, Constance L., Jasper Montana, Aoife Bennett, Carolina Gueiros, Rachel Hamilton, Mark Hirons, Victoria A. Maguire-Rajpaul, Emilie Parry, and Laura Picot (2022). Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark. Environmental Policy and Governance.

Biodiversity and Artificial Intelligence. Opportunities & Recommendations for Action

The report offers actionable recommendations for how governments, NGOs, researchers and companies can use AI to support biodiversity conservation. These recommendations were developed following extensive consultation with a broad community of stakeholders

Chambers, J. M., Wyborn, C., Klenk, N. L., et al. (2022). Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Global Environmental Change, 72, 102422.

Wyborn, C., Montana, J., Kalas, N., et al. (2021). An agenda for research and action towards diverse and just futures for life on Earth. Conservation Biology. 35(4): 1086-1097.

Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Jesús, et al. (2019). Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought. Ecology Letters 22.5: 855-865.

Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús, et al. (2020). Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity. Nature Communications 11.1: 3346.

Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús, et al. (2021). Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data.  Remote Sensing of Environment 252: 112122.

Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Jesús, et al. (2022). Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6.7: 878-889..

How an auction is helping Britain’s turtle doves

The Economist coverage of the Combinatorial auction for turtle dove habitat project.

Post-Brexit farm subsidy plans will see landowners paid to protect turtle doves

Daily Telegraph coverage of the Combinatorial auction for turtle dove habitat project.

Economists develop UK subsidy auction to save endangered turtle dove

Financial times coverage of the Combinatorial auction for turtle dove habitat project.