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Professor Jos Barlow

Distinguished Professor of Conservation Science

Jos Barlow

LEC Building

LA1 4YQ

Lancaster

Tel: +44 1524 510548

ORCID: 0000-0003-4992-2594

Research Interests

I am interested in understanding how human activities impact tropical forest biodiversity, and the ecosystem services and functions that biodiversity delivers. My work focusses on the Brazilian Amazon, where I have been working since 1998.

I am a co-founder of the Sustainable Amazon Nework (Rede Amazônia Sustentável), which brings together scientists, conservation practitioners and local stakeholders to further our understanding of the environmental and socio-economic trade-offs in the world's largest remaining expanse of tropical forest.  

I am a Trustee of WWF-UK, Lead author & member of UN’s Science Panel for the Amazon, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Ecology.

Teaching

I teach on a variety of modules within the Ecology and Conservation and Geography undergraduate and post-graduate programmes, using my expertise in tropical forests to illustrate the many tensions between economic development and conservation. I also teach and supervise students on post-graduate courses at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil.

Contact

Department: Lancaster Environment Centre

Office: LEC Building

Location: LEC 3 - B34

jos.barlow@lancaster.ac.uk

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Publications & Outputs

  • Published

    Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia

    Lyons‐White, J., Spencer, M., Arif, J., Balmford, A., Barlow, J., Brandão, J., Börner, J., Camara, G., Chandra, A., Cleary, D., Colchester, M., Dharmawan, A. H., Ekaputri, A. D., Grabs, J., Hecht, S., Idris, N., Juniyanti, L., Kumaran, S., Lasmana, F. P. S. & Macedo, M. N. & 13 others, McGrath, T., Nawawi, Nussbaum, R., Paranhos, M., Pollard, E., Porro, R., dos Reis, J. C., Smith, R. E., Struebig, M. J., Turner, E. C., Utamiputri, P., Valentim, J. F. & Garrett, R. D., 31/07/2025, In: Conservation Letters. 18, 4, e13120.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  • Published

    Anthropogenic disturbances simplify frugivory interactions in Amazonia

    Rossi, L. C., Emer, C., Charles Lees, A., Berenguer, E., Barlow, J., Ferreira, J., França, F. M., Ramos, Y. G., Tavares, P. & Aurelio Pizo, M., 31/07/2025, In: Oikos. 2025, 7, e10831.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  • E-pub ahead of print

    Tropical biodiversity loss from land-use change is severely underestimated by local-scale assessments

    Socolar, J. B., Mills, S. C., Gilroy, J. J., Martínez-Revelo, D. E., Medina-Uribe, C. A., Parra-Sanchez, E., Ramirez-Gutierrez, M., Sand Sæbø, J., Meneses, H. S., Pérez, G., Barlow, J., Ochoa Quintero, J. M., Freckleton, R. P., Haugaasen, T. & Edwards, D. P., 22/07/2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Ecology and Evolution.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

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