We are interested in understanding how ecological diversity and functioning are affected in human-modified landscapes, and use surveys along habitat modification gradients to detect patterns, combined with manipulative field experiments, to gain a mechanistic understanding of ecological interactions and biodiversity-function linkages.

With our collaborators, we have developed new approaches to measuring species interactions on ecosystem multifunctionality in terrestrial animal systems, and shown that optimising multifunctionality is context-dependent and contingent upon how ecosystem services are valued.