Environmental Biology PhD

Our PhD/MPhil Environmental Biology programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Environmental Biology.<br/><br/>Animals, microorganisms and plants live in environments to which they have become adapted through millions of years of evolution.<br/><br/>They often have to respond to changes which may be biotic or abiotic in nature, and, increasingly, to anthropogenic perturbations which have resulted in global environmental change.<br/><br/>To understand how organisms respond and interact with one another in their natural and man-made habitats, a wide spectrum of approaches is employed ranging from molecular biology to population biology.<br/><br/>State-of-the-art facilities for controlled environments are used to regulate climate variables and to study interactions between species. These include controlled environment rooms, animal facilities and insectaries.<br/><br/>Research projects involve both laboratory and field studies in temperate, arctic and tropical habitats.<br/><br/>Examples of areas of investigation include:<br/><br/>seasonal and hormonal regulation of animal behaviour;<br/>reproductive strategies of plants;<br/>animal & microbes and their evolution;<br/>phenotypic plasticity and quantitative genetics;<br/>strategies of adaption in a changing world;