Professor Jos Barlow
Distinguished Professor of Conservation ScienceResearch Interests
I am interested in understanding how human activities impact tropical forest biodiversity, and the ecosystem services and functions that biodiversity delivers. My work focusses on the Brazilian Amazon, where I have been working since 1998.
I am a co-founder of the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável), which brings together scientists, conservation practitioners and local stakeholders to further our understanding of the environmental and socio-economic trade-offs in the world's largest remaining expanse of tropical forest.
I am a Trustee of WWF-UK and chair of the Impact Committee, Lead author & member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the UN’s Science Panel for the Amazon, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Ecology.
Teaching
I teach on a variety of modules within the Ecology and Conservation and Geography undergraduate and post-graduate programmes, using my expertise in tropical forests to illustrate the many tensions between economic development and conservation. I also teach and supervise students on post-graduate courses at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil.
Contact
Department: Lancaster Environment Centre
Office: LEC Building
Location: LEC 3 - B34
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MC PDF: TROPIC - Thresholds in Rainforest Organisms: a Pan-taxa and Integrated Community approach (Paula Ribeiro Anunciação)
01/08/2025 → 31/07/2027
Research
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Thresholds in Rainforest Organisms: a Pan-taxa and Integrated Community approach
01/08/2025 → 31/07/2027
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WWF Post Doc Grant
01/01/2025 → 31/08/2025
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Enabling large-scale and climate-resilient forest restoration in the Eastern Amazon
01/11/2024 → 31/10/2027
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Amazon-SOS: a Safe Operating Space for Amazonian Forests
01/02/2024 → 31/07/2028
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Rainforest Fauna in the Anthropocene: an integrated approach to understanding climate and land use change (RAINFAUNA).
01/06/2023 → 30/09/2027
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A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience (ARBOLES) - extension
01/07/2022 → 31/03/2023
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Amazon PyroCarbon: Quantifying soil carbon responses to fire and climate change (FAPESP)
01/07/2022 → 30/06/2026
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GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Lancaster University
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2023
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Understanding and Scaling Vulnerability of Neotropical Amazon and Transitional Forests to altered Fire Regimes
01/12/2021 → 31/12/2025
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Identifying seeds of transformational change in Amazonia
01/04/2021 → 31/03/2022
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Secondary forest permanence in the Brazilian Amazon
01/04/2020 → 31/03/2022
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BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2024
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BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2025
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Evaluating fire-induced dieback of Amazonian rainforest
01/07/2019 → 31/12/2024
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ARBOLES: A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience
01/02/2019 → 31/03/2023
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Provisioning of ecosystem services and cultural values in the Montane tropics
01/08/2018 → 31/07/2021
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Envision DTP: A multi-scale assessment of secondary forest in the Brazilian Amazon.
02/10/2017 → 31/03/2022
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ODYSSEA: Observatory of the Dynamics of Interactions Between Societies and Environment in the Amazon
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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Hannah Giffiths NERC Studentship
01/10/2011 → 08/10/2015
Other
Towards COP30 – Integrated and Participatory Planning for Forest Restoration in Response to the Climate Crisis
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fire and the future the the Amazon
Invited talk
Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Editorial activity
Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, Ecology and Conservation
Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, Ecology and Conservation
Ecology and Conservation
- African Studies Group
- Ecology and Conservation
- Improving global stewardship
- Latin America Research Cluster
- Understanding a changing planet