David Roy

I have a joint position between the University of Exeter (Professor of Ecology) and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Principle scientist).

I work on the innovative use of technologies to deliver robust information on the status of wildlife and to understand the causes of biodiversity change. I am focused on closing the knowledge gap for insects due to increasing global attention on their decline and the vital role they play all ecosystems (e.g. as pests, food for birds and mammals, recycling nutrients, pollinating crops), and as indicators of climate change impacts.

My research has two main strands: (i) innovative development and enhancement of biodiversity monitoring approaches, realising the potential of combining citizen science and technology; (ii) impactful research making use of long-term, large-scale datasets for detection and attribution of environmental change.