The world is facing interlinked nature and climate emergencies. The conservation and restoration of resilient ecosystems have a central role to play in tackling both.
Our highly interdisciplinary research in this area brings together researchers from across the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Ocean Sciences and from disciplines as varied as ecology, land system science, oceanography, remote sensing, physiology, behaviour, forestry, economics and policy.
We carry out cutting-edge research in a full range of terrestrial and marine habitats, from polar regions to the tropics. Our research is highly impactful. For example, our research on the impacts of bottom trawling, advancing agroforestry, and reducing the social costs of conservation in low-income countries contributed to Bangor University being ranked number one in the UK for the impact of our environmental science research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
Our research facilities in this area are world-beating and include our ocean-going research vessel the Prince Madog, the Henfaes research farm, and Treborth Botanic Gardens
Featured researchers
Professor Julia Patricia Gordon Jones
Professor Julia Jones is a conservation scientist with particular expertise in evaluating the impact of conservation interventions
DR ALEX SUTTON
Dr Alex Sutton is a behavioural and population ecologist interested in understanding how individuals respond to environmental change and how these responses scale up to influence populations and communities.
Claire Carrington
Claire Carrington is a marine ecologist currently researching the behavioural responses of coastal seabirds to meteorological variability.
Katie Devenish
Katie Devenish is a conservation scientist using counterfactual methods to study the impact of mining on the forests of Madagascar, and whether efforts to mitigate that impact have worked.
Dr Craig Robertson
Dr Craig Robertson is a benthic ecologist specialising in the macrofaunal communities and has a keen interest in developing functional ecology approaches in marine habitats, particularly in deep-sea habitats.
Dr Marielle Smith
Dr Marielle Smith is an ecosystem ecologist who combines field-based and remote sensing observations across scales to understand forest responses to land-use and climate change-related drivers.
Dr Neal Hockley
Dr Neal Hockley is an environmental social scientist interested in environmental justice, conservation, and management of natural resources.
Dr Leejiah Dorward
Dr Leejiah Dorward is an interdisciplinary conservation scientist with broad interests in how we can apply social science methods to improve our understanding of how social and ecological systems interact.
Dr Katrien Van Landeghem
Dr Katrien Van is a marine geologist with expertise in evaluating seabed integrity, which impacts marine ecosystems.
Dr Harriet Ibbet
Dr Harriet Ibett is a conservation scientist who focuses on understanding peoples compliance with rules which protect biodiversity.
Professor John Healey
Professor John Healey is a forest ecologist working to achieve the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of forest resources.
Dr Freya St John
Dr Freya St John is a conservation scientist interested in understanding the links between human behaviour, well-being and conservation.
Dr Ewa Krzyszczyk
Dr Ewa Krzyszczyk is a marine zoologist interested in behaviour and conservation of marine mammals, fish, and a variety of marine ecosystems.
Dr Elena Cini
Dr Elena Cini is an interdisciplinary scientist with interests in ecology, conservation social science, and agro-environmental research.
Dr Eleanor Warren-Thomas
Dr Eleanor Warren-Thomas is an inter-disciplinary scientist using tools from ecology, economics and land systems science to support the conservation and restoration of forests and biodiversity.
Dr Edwin Pynegar
Dr Edwin Pynegar is a conservation scientist and practitioner who works on designing and implementing conservation agreement programs and robustly evaluating their effectiveness.
Dr Farnon Ellwood
Dr Farnon Ellwood is a community ecologist specialising in the development of theoretical frameworks that can be used to conserve tropical biodiversity by informing sustainable management practices.
Deanna Groom
Deanna Groom is a maritime archaeologist specialising in the development of maritime historic environment inventories (e.g. national and regional sites and monuments records) for coastal and underwater heritage sites. Particular research interests relate to the impact of climate change on the ecology of historic shipwreck sites.
Dr Gareth Williams
Gareth is a marine ecologist specialising in coral reef ecology. His work focuses on identifying the natural and human drivers of coral reef community structure and function across scales and taxa.
Full researcher list
Dr Aaron Comeault (evolution, conservation genomics, invasive species)
Professor Simon Creer
Dr Farnon Ellwood (insects, rainforests, oil palm)
Dr Alexander Georgiev (primatology, conservation, ecophysiology)
Dr James Gibbons (statistics, modelling, conservation)
Professor Robert Griffiths (microbes, soil functions, resistance mechanisms)
Professor John Healey (ecology, forestry, conservation)
Professor Jan Geert Hiddink (fisheries, seabed ecosystems, bottom trawling)
Dr Neal Hockley (land, governance, economics)
Professor Richard Holland (behaviour, sensory biology, migration)
Professor Stuart Jenkins (marine ecology, anthropogenic impacts, ecosystem management)
Professor Julia Patricia Gordon Jones (conservation, impact evaluation)
Jonathan King
Dr Ewa Krzyszczyk (behaviour, marine animals, conservation)
Dr Lewis Le Vay
Dr Mark Mainwaring (impact of weather, nests and eggs, urbanisation)
Dr Shelagh Malham
Dr Anita Malhotra (herpetofauna, conflict, genetics)
Dr Lars Markesteijn
Dr Tom Martin (conservation, zoology, biogeography)
Dr Ian McCarthy (behaviour, physiological ecology, conservation)
Professor Morag McDonald (ecology, forestry, agroforestry)
Dr Kirsty McLeod
Dr Eefke Mollee (agroforestry, food security, urban forestry)
Dr Tim Pagella (restoration, socio-ecological systems, gender)
Dr Sopan Patil
Dr Craig Robertson (benthic ecology ,deep sea, ecosystem function)
Dr Peter Robins (estuaries, hydrodynamics, modelling)
Dr Graeme Shannon (behaviour, ecology, conservation)
Dr Marielle Smith (forest ecosystems, remote sensing, global change)
Dr Freya St John (conservation, social sciences, human behaviour)
Dr Katherine Steele (genetics, breeding, sustainability)
Dr Alex Sutton (climate change, population ecology, community ecology)
Dr William Teahan (artificial intelligence, data science, simulation and modelling)
Professor George Turner
Professor John Turner
Dr Katrien Van Landeghem (seabed integrity, habitat suitability, glacial legacy)
Dr Eleanor Warren-Thomas (conservation, biodiversity, agroforestry)
Professor Simon Willcock (resilience, social-ecological systems; ecosystem services)
Catrin Williams
Dr Gareth Williams (coral reefs, oceanography, climate change)
Dr Wolfgang Wüster (herpetofauna, conservation genomics, venom)
Dr Rosemary Moorhouse-Gann (conservation, restoration, island ecosystems)
Sophie Berenice Wilmes
Dr Elena Cini (conservation, ecology, social science)
Charlotte Colvin
Dr Norman Dandy (land, governance, society)
Dr Leejiah Dorward (conservation, social sciences, human behaviour)
Dr Tom Galley (sustainable aquaculture, bivalve biology, reef fish)
Charlotte Heney
Dr Harriet Ibbett (conservation, social sciences, human behaviour)
Dr Nick Jones (sustainable aquaculture, molluscan biology, reef fish)
Dr Jessica Kevill
Dr Amy (Spike) Lewis (conservation, human behaviour, socio-ecological systems)
Lilian Lieber
Dr Kirsty MacLeod
Dr Alec Moore (historical ecology, fisheries, elasmobranchs)
Dr Liz Morris-Webb
Dr Edwin Pynegar (impact evaluation, conservation, forests)
Dr William Schneider (behaviour, ecology, migration)
Dr Vahid Seydi (machine learning, data science, artificial intelligence)
Ping Shang Xu
Dr Morwenna Spear
Danielle Spring
Jamie Thorpe (aquaculture, climate change, molecular ecology)
Bex Turner
Gemma Veneruso
Dr Sophie Ward (oceanography, climate change, ocean modelling)
Anna Wood (forest restoration, molecular ecology, forests )
Dr Craig Shuttleworth (red squirrel conservation)
Dr Simon Valle (conservation planning, population dynamics, conservation ecology)
Dr Sophie Williams (plant conservation, botanic gardens, socio-ecological systems)
Patrick Allsop (dispersal, plasticity, anthropogenic disturbance)
Jack Atkin-Willoughby (forester, conservationist, outdoor instructor )
Rebecca Bracegirdle
Claire Carrington (seabirds, behaviour, meterology)
Katie Devenish (conservation, mining, impacts)
Penny Downes (conservation, human-wildlife interactions, behaviour)
Ffion Evans (agriculture, circularity, policy)
Lisa Goberdhan
Deanna Groom (underwater archaeology, ecosystems, climate change)
Alice Lawrence (spatial ecology, reef fish, management)
Ben Owens
Ivonne Liliana Salamanca Leon (conservation, ecology, impact evaluation)
Saniye Smith (marine policy, co-management, fisheries)
Marie Touchon (marine conservation, socioeconomics, mangroves)
Key projects
Researchers in this theme work on a wide variety of applied projects.
Key projects
Researchers in this theme work on a wide variety of applied projects.
See our work as our researchers see it
A picture says a thousand words - so please enjoy the gallery of some of the examples of the work we are involved in
Barque hwylio oedd y Vittoria a ddaeth i'r lan yng Nghefn Sidan ar 24ain o Ionawr 1872. Mae'r coed bellach yn darparu dalfa ar gyfer amrywiaeth o rywogaethau rhynglanwol.
Gall arferion amaeth-goedwigaeth gynyddu amrywiaeth glöynnod byw mewn planhigfeydd rwber yn Ne Gwlad Thai. Mae ymchwilwyr Bangor yn gweithio i ddeall sut y gellir cynyddu amaeth-goedwigaeth, a'r effaith ar gynnyrch rwber.
Ymchwilwyr o Brifysgol Bangor yn archwilio llinellau hir cregyn gleision ym Mae Conwy ar gyfer ymchwil i gynhyrchu bwyd cynaliadwy gyda physgotwyr Gogledd Cymru
Bydd bioamrywiaeth mewn coedwigoedd wedi'u hadfer yn wahanol i goedwigoedd hen dyfiant - mae ymchwilwyr Prifysgol Bangor yn gweithio i ddeall sut y gall gwaith adfer effeithio ar fioamrywiaeth.
Ynys Seiriol ym mhen dwyreiniol y Fenai
Mae trosi coedwig yn dir pori yng Ngholombia yn cyflymu - mae ymchwilwyr Bangor yn astudio sut y gellir cyrraedd targedau adfer coedwigoedd o ystyried datgoedwigo parhaus.
Cregyn gleision ar y môr yn tyfu ym Mae Conwy i ddatblygu cynhyrchiant bwyd cynaliadwy yng Ngogledd Cymru
Mae ymchwilwyr o Brifysgol Bangor yn astudio ecoleg ymddygiadol a chadwraeth y mwnci colobus coch Zanzibar sydd mewn perygl ac yn endemig gan weithio ar y cyd â chyrff anllywodraethol ac awdurdodau lleol.
Pier Bangor
Mae Prifysgol Bangor yn gweithio gyda’r Comorian NGO Dahari i ddatblygu rhaglen cytundeb cadwraeth ar gyfer Ynys Anjouan, Comoros
Tynnu llinellau hir ar y môr i samplo cregyn gleision i'w dadansoddi i'w patrymau twf a'u patrymau anheddu ar gyfer ymchwil ym Mhrifysgol Bangor
Gweddillion y frig hwylio Athena ar Draeth Maltraeth. Daeth y llong i’r lan ar 20 Rhagfyr 1852 ac mae’n parhau i ryngweithio â gwaddodion traeth drwy y broses sgwrio.
Pysgodyn cichlid (Maylandia aurora) o dan y dŵr ym Mharc Cenedlaethol Llyn Malawi
Jiráff Masai yn mwynhau tyfiant newydd ar ddechrau'r glaw ym Mharc Cenedlaethol Ruaha, Tanzania
Titw barfog gwrywaidd yn bwyta hadau cyrs
Llew yn rhoi llewyrch rhybudd i jacal cefn du i amddiffyn ei charcas sebra ym Mharc Cenedlaethol Ruaha, Tanzania
Gwylanod coesddu yn nythu a magu eu cywion ar Ynysoedd Farne, DU
Pâl yn dod allan o’i dwll nythu ar ei ffordd allan i chwilota ym Môr Gogledd Ynysoedd Farne yn y DU
Llygoden bengron y dŵr yng ngogledd Caint, y DU, yn mwynhau egin glaswellt ifanc tyner
Llun Drone o Pier Bangor
Llyn Crater Kyungululu cartref i pysgod Cichlid sydd mewn perygl difrifol
Pysgod Cichlid ym Mhwll Llyn Natron
Rhewlif iâ yn disgyn i'r môr
Pysgod yn sychu ger Llyn Nyasa, Tanzania
Tafod fflamingo ar wyntyll y môr
Quercus petraea, coetir derw mes digoes, Llanberis
At Bangor research underpins the teaching that we do – you can study a wide variety of courses, at all levels, which build on the world-leading research we are doing which relates to the conservation and restoration of resilient ecosystems.
At Bangor research underpins the teaching that we do – you can study a wide variety of courses, at all levels, which build on the world-leading research we are doing which relates to the conservation and restoration of resilient ecosystems.
