Sunderland Lab | Biodiversity | Research

Samuel Adeyanju contributed a chapter on ‘Global Higher Education During COVID-19: Policy, Society, and Technology’
Samuel Adeyanju recently contributed a chapter on a book titled ‘Global Higher Education During COVID-19: Policy, Society, and Technology‘. The book explores the impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for global mobility in the field of international higher education. Specifically, this book responds to the growing need for new insights and perspectives to improve higher […]
Alida and Diling won the Mary and David Macaree Fellowship 2022
Congratulations to Alida O’ Connor and Diling Liang for winning the Mary and David Macaree Fellowship for 2022. Diling also won the Hamish Kimmins Scholarship in Forest Ecosystems. Well done both!
New paper from Sunderland lab on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Ghana and Zambia
A new paper led by Samuel Adeyanju and Alida O’Connor titled ‘Learning from Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Ghana and Zambia: Lessons for integrated landscape approaches’ has been recently published on ‘International Forestry Review’. The paper discusses the positive characteristics and persistent challenges arising from CBNRM initiatives in both countries. The full paper is […]
New article by Joli Rumi Borah and Terry Sunderland on ‘How do forests and trees sustain agriculture?’
‘Forests and agriculture, although often considered as separate or conflicting entities, are actually interlinked. Agricultural intensification and expansion are the primary drivers of global forest loss accounting for 11% of total global carbon emissions. Forest conversion negatively impacts biodiversity, reduces ecosystem resilience and also affects ecosystem services such as pollination, nutrient cycling and soil fertility […]
Congratulations to Debbie and Alida for winning the Three Minute Talk challenge 20th Commonwealth Forestry Conference
Big congratulations to Debbie and Alida for winning the first and second prizes respectively at the Three Minute Talk challenge of 20th Commonwealth Forestry Conference! Both presented their doctoral research at the challenge. Debbie spoke about the impact of land rights and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon on livelihoods of rural woman and Alida presented […]

Welcome to the Sunderland Lab at UBC!

Sunderland lab is based in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The lab is led by Dr. Terry Sunderland, Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences. Our research is focused on applied research, biodiversity, conservation, sustainable resource management, and linkages to levering policy influence. For more details, please visit the ‘Research‘ page. To get recent updates on our work, please follow Sunderland lab and Dr. Terry Sunderland on Twitter!

Samuel Adeyanju contributed a chapter on ‘Global Higher Education During COVID-19: Policy, Society, and Technology’

Alida and Diling won the Mary and David Macaree Fellowship 2022

New paper from Sunderland lab on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Ghana and Zambia

New article by Joli Rumi Borah and Terry Sunderland on ‘How do forests and trees sustain agriculture?’

Congratulations to Debbie and Alida for winning the Three Minute Talk challenge 20th Commonwealth Forestry Conference

Welcome to the Sunderland Lab at UBC!