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The TIGR2ESS project , led by Professor Howard Griffiths, Head of the Department's Physiological Ecology Research Group , has won the Vice Chancellor's Collaboration Award. The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Awards recognise outstanding achievement, innovation and creativity in devising and implementing...

A new study led by the Department's Dr Andrew Tanentzap , Head of the Ecosystems and Global Change Group , shows Europe's lakes, which are a major source of drinking water, are polluted by microscopic plastics and man-made fibres. Publised in PLOS Biology , the new study suggests that human activity and land use in areas...

The rise and fall of Earth’s land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, a new study by researchers in the Department has found, with new species evolving at higher rates where the land has risen most. The Department's Dr Andrew Tanentzap , Head of the Ecosystems and Global...

A collaboration between researchers from the Department of Plant Sciences and the Sainsbury Laboratory has visualised the colonisation of plant roots by fungi in real time. This is the first time that this vital, 400-million-year-old process has been visualised in real time in full root systems of living plants. Almost all...