Previously held positions:
- Chair of the recent Royal Society Programme on Biodiversity
- Trustee of the Natural History Museum of London (current)
- President-Elect of the British Ecological Society (current)
- Member of the Environment Council of the First Minister of Scotland (current)
Awards and nominations:
- Marsh Award for Climate Change of the British Ecological Society (2016)
- Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (2018)
- Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology
- Appointed CBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to ecosystem science
Recent publications:
- Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (book, 2005)
- Measuring tropical forest carbon allocation and cycling