Kew's Landscape Ecology Programme
The Landscape Ecology Programme uses Kew’s Wakehurst estate to measure the co-benefits of biodiversity. A 535-acre mosaic landscape, with multiple habitats and decades of documented land use, Wakehurst is a useful site for research. We measure carbon sequestration, nature-connectedness and pollinators together across time and space to build evidence for multiple benefits of biodiversity.
In May 2023, Ed Ikin and Laura Martinez Suz from Kew Royal Botanic Garden provided a programme overview before focussing on research into the relationship between fungal diversity, abundance and function and carbon sequestration.