Tropical Ecology in a rapidly changing world

About Us

The TropEco Lab aims to generate scientific evidence on biodiversity patterns and human-nature relationships to inform conservation strategies and environmental policy in the tropics.

We are a research group split between the Federal University of Pará, in Belém, and the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom.

What do we do?

Our team adopt multidisciplinary approaches to investigate people-nature interactions and how biodiversity responds to environmental changes across the tropics.

We do this using a range of organisms, from terrestrial insects to freshwater and marine fish and approaches such as field experiments, long-term ecological monitoring, synthesis of large-scale datasets, and participatory methodologies with local policy/decision-makers, and traditional community leaders.

Where do we work?

We work across distinct regions of the Brazilian Amazon, as well as in Ghana (Kumasi) and Malaysia (Borneo).

In Brazil, we have field sites established in forests across Pará (Altamira, Jari, Santarém, and Tailândia regions), as well as savanna and forest sites in Tocantins (Parque Nacional do Araguaia), and Maranhão (Reserva Biológica do Gurupi).