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Professor Felix Eigenbrod BSc, MRes, DPhil

Principal Investigator (Spatial Ecology)

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Prof Felix Eigenbrod is a Professor of Applied Spatial Ecology, in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton.

A landscape ecologist by training, I am broadly interested in quantifying the often complex interactions between biodiversity, society and ecosystem services, and at identifying the spatial and temporal scales at which tradeoffs and interactions occur. In my research I use GIS and different modelling techniques to develop novel methodologies for linking existing environmental, social and biological datasets to fully understand the processes underlying the wide range of ecosystem services used by humans, and how human impacts affect global distributions of species. My work is highly interdisciplinary, and I frequently collaborate with specialists in other fields, ranging from biophysical modellers (e.g. hydrologists and dynamic vegetation modellers) to economists and human geographers.

Career history

2010-present: University of Southampton
2008–2010: University of Sheffield, UK.
2003-2004: Imperial College London, UK.

Academic qualifications

2004-2008: PhD (Biology) Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
2001-2002: MRes (Ecology and Environmental Management. University of York, UK.
1996-2000: BSc (Biology) Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada.

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A landscape ecologist by training, I am broadly interested in quantifying the often complex interactions between biodiversity, society and ecosystem services, and at identifying the spatial and temporal scales at which tradeoffs and interactions occur. In my research I use GIS and different modelling techniques to develop novel methodologies for linking existing environmental, social and biological datasets to fully understand the processes underlying the wide range of ecosystem services used by humans, and how human impacts affect global distributions of species. My work is highly interdisciplinary, and I frequently collaborate with specialists in other fields, ranging from biophysical modellers (e.g. hydrologists and dynamic vegetation modellers) to economists and human geographers.

PhD supervision

Robert Cooke: Quantifying the functional integrity, stability and structural integrity of global biomes.
Supervisors: Felix Eigenbrod, Amanda Bates. NERC funding through SPITFIRE DTC

Sebastian Dunnett: The global impacts of energy production on biodiversity
Supervisors: Felix Eigenbrod, Gail Taylor and Richard Pearson (UCL). Funded through NERC ADVENT project.

Jing-lun Huang: Prediction of British Avian Species Composition from Assemblage
Supervisors: Felix Eigenbrod, Patrick Osborne. Funding: University of Southampton and Taiwanese government

Evelyn Piña Covarrubias: Interactions of jaguars (Panthera onca) an pumas (Puma concolor) with their prey and humans in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Supervisors: Felix Eigenbrod, Patrick Doncaster. Funding from Mexican government scholarship

Co-supervisor:

Casper Donnison: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BECCS) –impacts on UK and global natural capital
Supervisors: Gail Taylor, Felix Eigenbrod and Astley Hastings (Aberdeend). Funded through NERC ADVENT project.

James Gott: Valuing the cultural benefits that coastal ecosystems provide to people using citizen science.
Supervisors: Emma Roe, Felix Eigenbrod, Jasmin Godbold, NERC funding through SPITFIRE DTC

Katie John Glew: Retrospective geo-location of free-living marine animals - new tools for spatial ecology, natural resource management and conservation
Supervisors: Dr Clive Trueman, Felix Eigenbrod, Professor Sujit Sahu. NERC funding through SPITFIRE DTC

Research project

SCALEFORES: Scaling Rules for ecosystem services

Addressing the Valuation of Energy and Nature Together - ADVENT

Research group

Environmental Change and Sustainability (ECaS)

Affiliate research group

Landscape Dynamics and Ecology (LDE)

Research project(s)

ADVANCES (ADVancing Analysis of Natural Capital in LandscapE DecisionS)

Chair of the Equality and Diversity committee for Biology (2015/2016)

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Conferences

Donnison, C., Holland, R., Hastings, A., Armstrong, L-M., Eigenbrod, F., & Taylor, G. (2018). Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) in the UK: Contrasting land-use scenarios and implications for natural capital. Paper presented at International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions, .
Smith, H., Hudson, M., Eigenbrod, F., & Schreckenberg, K. (2015). Socio-economic factors affecting the spatial-temporal dynamics of charcoal extraction in Zomba, Malawi. Paper presented at PEP 20, .
Clarke, D., Macgregor, N., Thompson, A., Hill, C., Osborne, P., & Eigenbrod, F. (2011). The effectiveness of landscape-scale conservation initiatives in Britain: what can we really assess?. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (UK Chapter), .

Report

Eigenbrod, F., Adams, W. M., Hill, C., Macgregor, N., Osborne, P., Clarke, D., Sandbrook, L., Hodge, I., Steyl, I., Thompson, A., van Dijk, N., & Watmough, G. (2017). A review of large-scale conservation in England, Scotland and Wales (JP019). (Natural England Joint Publication; No. JP019). Natural England.

Reviews

Collins, R., Spake, R., Brown, K. A., Ogutu, B., Smith, D., & Eigenbrod, F. (2020). A systematic map of research exploring the effect of greenspace on mental health. Landscape and Urban Planning, 201, [103823]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103823
Fahrig, L., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Bennett, J. R., Boucher-Lalonde, V., Cazetta, E., Currie, D. J., Eigenbrod, F., Ford, A. T., Harrison, S. P., Jaeger, J. A. G., Koper, N., Martin, A. E., Martin, J. L., Metzger, J. P., Morrison, P., Rhodes, J. R., Saunders, D. A., Simberloff, D., Smith, A. C., ... Watling, J. I. (2019). Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity? Biological Conservation, 230, 179-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.12.026
Rieb, J. T., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Daily, G. C., Armsworth, P. R., Böhning-Gaese, K., Bonn, A., Cumming, G. S., Eigenbrod, F., Grimm, V., Jackson, B. M., Marques, A., Pattanayak, S. K., Pereira, H. M., Peterson, G. D., Ricketts, T. H., Robinson, B. E., Schröter, M., Schulte, L. A., Seppelt, R., ... Bennett, E. M. (2018). Response to Kabisch and Colleagues. BioScience, 68(3), 167-168. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix154
Rieb, J. T., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Daily, G. C., Daily, G. C., Armsworth, P. R., Böhning-Gaese, K., Böhning-Gaese, K., Bonn, A., Bonn, A., Bonn, A., Cumming, G. S., Eigenbrod, F., Grimm, V., Grimm, V., Jackson, B. M., Marques, A., Marques, A., Marques, A., Pattanayak, S. K., ... Bennett, E. M. (2017). When, where, and how nature matters for ecosystem services: challenges for the next generation of ecosystem service models. BioScience, 67(9), 820-833. https://doi.org/10.1093/BIOSCI/bix075

Guest lecturer on Dangerous Worlds (Geog 1011)

University of Southampton

Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee for Biological Sciences

Professor Felix Eigenbrod
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