Monitoring Ecosystems

We develop innovative methods and insights to track the condition of ecosystems, with a focus on foundational biodiversity found in soils.

Governments, business, scientists, farmers, and environmentalists all have a stake in knowing the condition and trend of soil and land health. We measure shifts in soil biodiversity and functional capacity, driven by anthropogenic, edaphic and environmental change. 

Selected papers and projects

• Next generation restoration metrics: Using soil eDNA bacterial community data to measure trajectories towards rehabilitation targets (2022)

• Soil DNA chronosequence analysis shows bacterial community re-assembly following post-mining forest rehabilitation (2022)

• Global meta-analysis shows progress towards recovery of soil microbiota following revegetation (2022)

• Does revegetation cause soil microbiota recovery? Evidence from revisiting a revegetation chronosequence 6 years after initial sampling (2022)