Professor Mark Emmerson
RESEARCH FOCUS
My work focusses on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, the drivers of biodiversity change and the consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem stability. I explore these questions using food webs, with a special focus on trophic interactions and body size, and employ a mixture of experimental and theoretical approaches using marine, freshwater and terrestrial systems to test ideas and hypotheses in ecology.
Find out moreRESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Open to PhD applications from candidates who are interested in exploring the role of biodiversity in driving the stability of communities using a mixture of experiments and modelling approaches – marine, freshwater and terrestrial systems can be explored.
Research Students
PhD title: Resilience in marine ecosystems: the effects of environmental and ecological context on ecosystem mulitfunctioning and multistability.
Name: Justin Judge
Years of Study: 3rd year
Country: Northern Ireland, UK
PhD title: Ecosystem based approaches to apple orchard management
Name: Robert Stewart
Years of Study: 2nd Year
Country: Northern Ireland, UK
PhD title: Addressing the gaps in marine ecosystem science: The role of kelp in the food web.
Name: Abby Gilson
Years of Study: 3rd year
Country: UK
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