The Oxford Long-Term Ecology Lab is a multidisciplinary research group working on nature and wellbeing.

We provide evidence to inform policies that promote the environment and the communities it sustains.


What we do

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Nature for health

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Land use management

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Nature monitoring

Latest news

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Paper: Rewilded scrubland as a carbon sink

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New Vector Atlas platform launched

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'Good Nature'. Now available in multiple languages

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Professor Kathy Willis elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society

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Nominated for Environmental Entomology's award

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Kathy Willis delivers the National Trust Octavia Hill Lecture 2026

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New research using scentscapes to monitor ecosystem health

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New research to study malaria vectors in Africa