Research Interests
Sandra Lavorel’s current research focuses on impacts of changes in climate and land management on ecosystems, and how these link to people’s quality of life through ecosystem services. She builds on concepts and methods of functional ecology including functional traits to quantify ecosystem services and to understand mechanisms underpinning their interrelationships, their spatial variation and their temporal dynamics. Recently she has been expanding this knowledge to understand how ecosystems and their biodiversity can support people’s adaptation to global change through mechanisms of ecological resilience, ecosystem transformation and regulating functions. She is engaged in interdisciplinary research to support local, regional and global transitions to sustainability.