ECOSYSTEMS NEWS

Megha is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, where she is working on the development of a biodiversity intactness index for tropical savannas. Her research focuses on understanding the ecological health of savannas, particularly in relation to herbivory intensity and various management interventions. I attended the seventeenth CBD-COP (Convention of Biological Diversity, Conference of Parties) in Yerevan as a part of Oxford’s delegation, an

At the UN Biodiversity Conference in Armenia, the focus shifted from grand new promises to the patient work of putting them into practice. Amid ancient landscapes and the tides of history, I found reasons for cautious optimism about the future of nature and international cooperation.

A small team of researchers worked together for nine weeks to complete the census. (Image Credit: Andrew Bailey) Over nine weeks among the trees of Wytham Woods, a field team led by Dr Cecilia Dahlsjö has completed the fifth census of one of the UK’s most intensively studied patches of woodland. The team recorded around 22,000 trees across an 18-hectare research plot, adding the latest measurements to a long-term record of Wytham Woods. The census comes at a particularly