Peter Manning

My research examines the relationships between climate and land use change, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, including carbon cycling and ecosystem services. This work has a particular focus on grasslands and forests and typically involves a combination of interdisciplinary collaboration with data synthesis and modelling.

The focus of my research has historically been on plant communities and their functioning, but recently I have worked with other groups including microorganisms and invertebrates. I have a great interest in synthesising knowledge at the level of entire communities and ecosystems and have developed both theory and methods for doing this. I have also expanded my work to include the human component, in a social-ecological systems approach.

My position is linked to the University of Bergen's Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CESAM) initiative.