Dr Laura Graham

Dr Laura Graham

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor
IIASA-NERC Research Fellow

Contact details

Email
l.graham@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Laura Graham is a computational and spatial ecologist interested in understanding how anthropogenic changes such as climate and land-use change affect global ecosystems, and how this in turn affects human well-being. Read more about Laura’s research at laurajanegraham.github.io. 

Laura is currently working on the IIASA-NERC funded fellowship A complex-systems approach to improve understanding of the biodiversity-landscape structure relationship.

Qualifications

  • PhD Geography, University of Nottingham
  • MSc Environmental Management, University of Nottingham (Distinction)
  • BSc Mathematics, University of Southampton (First)

Research

I am a computational/spatial ecologist interested in understanding how anthropogenic changes such as climate and land-use change affect global ecosystems, and how this in turn affects human well-being.

I am particularly interested in using novel statistical methods and heterogeneous sources of data to answer applied and theoretical questions. I was previously a mathematician and database developer, and apply skills learned there to answer ecological questions.

I am currently working at the 黑料吃瓜网 in the role of Birmingham Fellow. The first three years of this will be spent working on the IIASA-NERC funded project聽A complex-systems approach to improve understanding of the biodiversity-landscape structure relationship.

Other activities

  • BES Publications Committee – Committee Member
  • BES Events Committee – Chair
  • BES Quantitative Ecology Group – Secretary
  • Methods in Ecology & Evolution – Associate Editor
  • People & Nature – Associate Editor
  • Fellow of the Turing Institute

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Little, K, Castellanos-Acuna, D, Jain, P, Graham, L, Kettridge, N & Flannigan, M 2025, '', Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 380, no. 1924, 20230455.

Ivison, K, Little, K, Orpin, A, Lewis, CHM, Dyer, N, Keyzor, L, Everett, L, Stoll, E, Andersen, R, Graham, LJ & Kettridge, N 2024, '', Scientific Data, vol. 11, 973.

Lewis, CHM, Little, K, Graham, LJ, Kettridge, N & Ivison, K 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 4815.

Little, K, Graham, LJ, Flannigan, M, Belcher, CM & Kettridge, N 2024, '', Fire Ecology, vol. 20, no. 1, 14.

Wayman, JP, Sadler, J, Martin, TE, Graham, L, White, HJ, Tobias, JA & Matthews, T 2024, '', Journal of Animal Ecology.

Little, K, Graham, LJ & Kettridge, N 2023, '', International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 33, no. 1, WF23078.

Graham, LJ, Watts, K & Eigenbrod, F 2023, '', Basic and Applied Ecology, vol. 66, pp. 78-84.

Nogu茅, S, Nascimento, LD, Graham, L, Brown, LA, Gonz谩lez, LAG, Castilla鈥怋eltr谩n, A, Pe帽uelas, J, Fern谩ndez鈥怭alacios, JM & Willis, KJ 2022, '', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 33, no. 5, e13147.

Novella鈥怓ernandez, R, Juste, J, Ib谩帽ez, C, Rebelo, H, Russo, D, Alberdi, A, Kiefer, A, Graham, L, Paul, H, Doncaster, CP, Razgour, O & Capinha, C (ed.) 2021, '', Diversity and Distributions, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 1606-1618.

Fox, N, Graham, L, Eigenbrod, F, Bullock, JM & Parks, KE 2021, '', Ecosystem Services, vol. 50, 101328.

Hesselbarth, MHK, Nowosad, J, Signer, J & Graham, LJ 2021, '', Current Landscape Ecology Reports.

Fox, N, Graham, L, Eigenbrod, F, Bullock, JM & Parks, KE 2021, '', Ecosystem Services, vol. 50, 101331.

Graham, L 2020, '', One Earth, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 504-514.

Editorial

McCrea, R, King, R, Graham, L & B枚rger, L 2023, '', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 4-11.

Review article

Benavides Rios, E, Sadler, J, Graham, L & Matthews, T 2024, '', Global Ecology and Conservation, vol. 51, e02943.

Expertise

Biodiversity; conservation