People

Team Leader

Phil Martin

I'm an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Spain. My research focuses on how to balance environmental and social priorities in forests and the evidence we use to guide forest management policy.

Current Members

Eñaut Martinez de Birgara (PhD Student)

I'm a PhD student at BC3 where my research focuses how to meet the challenges of carbon mitigation, ecosystem adaptation, and ecosystem service provision in northern Iberian forests.

Iñaki Folio

I'm a masters student at the University of the Basque Country where I am examining the effect of forest restoration on tree biodiversity in the Urdaibai Biosphere reserve.

Past Members

Ollie Benson (Masters)

Ollie pursued an MSc at University College London. His project investigated biases in forest restoration studies by comparing natural regeneration and tree planting across diverse global contexts.

Catherine McCormack (Masters)

Catherine did a masters at the University of Leeds working on a project that investigates biases associated with different forest management approaches and their impact on biodiversity research.

Ffion Rys (Masters)

Ffion did a masters at the University of Leeds looking into existing meta-analyses on forest restoration for biodiversity outcomes and characteristics of successful restoration.

Yanis Hemeray (Masters)

Yanis was based at the Ecole Normale in Paris and conducted a meta-analysis of the impacts of forest fires on ants.

Tiff Cheung (Masters)

Tiff was based at University College London and worked on a synthesis investigating the impacts of forest fires on spiders and earthworms.

Niamh Tapper (Masters)

Niamh was based at Imperial College London and used meta-analysis to explore how dung beetle communities respond to fires.

Leonora Fisher (Masters)

Leo was based at University College London and carried out a meta-analysis examining the impacts of precipitation changes on soil and litter fauna in forests.

Jasper Arendse (Masters)

Jasper was based at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and worked on a large synthesis project investigating the impacts of precipitation changes on soil and litter properties in forests.