Part of ARIA’s Resilient Climate and Ecosystems space
Engineering Ecosystem Resilience
Living organisms underpin our food, climate stability, and materials – ecological collapse threatens the foundations of civilisation. By pairing advanced monitoring with resilience-boosting interventions, we could halt biodiversity loss and enable people and nature to thrive.
The opportunity
What if we could engineer resilient ecosystems that enable both humanity and nature to thrive?
Explore the opportunity spaceIn the space
ARIA-funded activities
- Exploratory research Discovery projects 22 projects Short, exploratory projects that guided our thinking across the opportunity space.
- Seed funding Opportunity seeds 14 seeds Ambitious research of up to £500k each, across research teams, universities, and start-ups.
- Programme Accelerated Adaptation £54m Exploring pathways to accelerate the adaptation of wild species to prevent biodiversity loss.
- Focused Research Organization Echo Labs £7m Building the scientific infrastructure to measure, model, and forecast ecosystem condition.
- Training Mast-EER 20 students A Masters by Research at the University of Exeter developing interdisciplinary ecological scientists.
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