Ecology and biodiversity

Ecology and biodiversity concern the living component of landscape: species, habitats, populations and the relationships between them, including the human ones. Landscape research approaches ecology through the particular places where it can be observed, and through the management decisions that determine what is able to live there.

Work in this theme covers habitat condition and loss, conservation practice and designation, rewilding and the arguments it provokes, species that arrive and species that return, and the ecology of ground that was never designed for it, such as quarries, brownfield sites and urban water. It also takes seriously the ways people relate to other species, as farmers, conservationists, visitors and neighbours. Multispecies thinking runs through much of the recent material here, treating a landscape as something more than a human project with wildlife in it.