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Joseph Hawes

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Biography

Joseph is a Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation within the Institute of Science and Environment. He is Programme Lead for BSc (Hons) Forest Management & BSc (Hons) Woodland Ecology and Conservation, within the National School of Forestry, and Theme Lead for Conservation and Ecology in the Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA).

He received his BSc (Biology) from the University of Nottingham, UK, and his MSc (Applied Ecology and Conservation) and PhD (Environmental Sciences) from the University of East Anglia, UK. His PhD covered floodplain forest ecology in western Brazilian Amazonia, examining the forest structure, phenology patterns and frugivore communities of flooded and unflooded forests, and compiled a synthesis of primate dietary studies from Central and South America.

Joseph conducted postdoctoral research on land-use change and sustainability with Rede Amazônia Sustentável (RAS) at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Brazil, investigating the functional consequences of forest disturbance and recovery for fruit traits and seed dispersal services. He also continued research on the sustainable use and community management of natural resources and ecosystem services at the site of his doctoral study in Amazonia with Projeto Médio Juruá (PMJ)/Instituto Juruá, including postdoc positions at the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas and Anglia Ruskin University.

His most recent position before joining the University of Cumbria, was at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) within the ongoing Amazon Biodiversity and Carbon (ABC) expeditions project, conducting multi-taxa biodiversity surveys and vegetation inventories from under-sampled regions of Brazilian Amazonia.

Research interests

Joseph is an ecologist, with a particular interest in the consequences of human disturbances and the sustainability of natural resource use.

His research profile in ecology and conservation has a broad coverage of plant and animal communities from terrestrial and aquatic habitats, including specialist knowledge in biodiversity monitoring, forest inventories and carbon stocks, fruit traits and plant-animal interaction networks, animal behaviour and feeding ecology, floodplain ecology, ecosystem services and community-based resource management. He has wide experience in the ecology and conservation of tropical forests, including fieldwork in the Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Mexico, and a particular focus on the Brazilian Amazon.

Joseph’s current research projects include the ongoing Amazon Biodiversity and Carbon (ABC) expeditions project, conducting multi-taxa biodiversity surveys and vegetation inventories from under-sampled regions of Brazilian Amazonia. He is also active in research on floodplain forest ecology and community-based conservation through his role with Instituto Juruá, a Brazilian grassroots organisation promoting the sustainable use and conservation management of natural resources from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Western Amazonia.

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Education/Academic qualification

PgCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education - Anglia Ruskin University

… → 2020

PhD, PhD Environmental Sciences - University of East Anglia, University of East Anglia

… → 2012

Master, MSc Applied Ecology & Conservation - University of East Anglia, University of East Anglia

… → 2005

Bachelor, BSc Biology, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham

… → 2002

Keywords

  • Biodiversity Monitoring
  • Community-Based Conservation
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Plant-Animal Interactions
  • Sustainability
  • Tropical Forest Ecology

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  2. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

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  • Fine-scale genomic divergence in the Amazonian pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) highlights the need for local management strategies

    Tovar Verba, J., Pereira, R. J., Campos-Silva, J. V., Farias, I. P., Hrbek, T., Peres, C. A. & Hawes, J., 15 Mar 2026, In: Freshwater Biology. 71, 3, 12 p., e70187.

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  • Detection and classification of captive coppery titi monkey calls

    Muir, J., Ravuri, A., Meissner, E., Hawes, J., Dufourq, E., O’Mahoney, T. & Dunn, J., 22 May 2025, (Published online) In: Bioacoustics. 34, 4, p. 400-418 19 p.

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  • Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of Serra do Divisor National Park, Brazil

    Bach, A., Haugaasen, T., Peres, C., Lucena, E., Ferreira, J. V., Hawes, J., Bordin, B., Cupello, M., Azevedo, R. A. D. & Vaz-de-Mello, F., 21 Mar 2025, (Published online) In: Biota Neotropica. 25, 1

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  • First record of mating involving a melanistic jaguar (Panthera onca) in the wild: novel behavioural insights into colour morphs and captive‐wild comparisons

    Luypaert, T., Hawes, J., Di Ponzio, R., Peres, C. & Haugaasen, T., 25 Aug 2025, In: Ecology and Evolution. 15, 8, p. e71776 10 p., e71776.

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  • Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests

    ter Steege, H., Poorter, L., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Fortunel, C., Magnusson, W., Phillips, O., Pos, E., Luize, B. G., Baraloto, C., Guevara, J. E., Endara, M.-J., Baker, T., Umaña, M. N., van der Sande, M., Pombo, M. M., McGlone, M., Draper, F., do Amaral, I. L., Coelho, L. D. S. & Wittmann, F. & 211 others, Almeida Matos, F. D. D., Lima Filho, D. D. A., Salomão, R., Castilho, C., Carim, M. D. J. V., Piedade, M. T. F., Sabatier, D., Molino, J.-F., Demarchi, L., Cardenas Revilla, J. D., Schöngart, J., Irume, M. V., Martins, M. P., da Silva Guimarães, J. R., Ramos, J. F., Bánki, O. S., Quaresma, A. C., Pitman, N., Peres, C., de Jesus Rodrigues, D., Hawes, J., Almeida, E. J., Barbosa, L. F., Cavalheiro, L., Santos, M. C. V. D., Leão Novo, E. M. M. D., Vargas, P. N., Silva, T. S. F., Venticinque, E. M., Manzatto, A. G., Reis, N. F. C., Terborgh, J., Casula, K. R., Honorio Coronado, E., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Carlos Montero, J., De Souza, C. R., Oliveira, M. V. N. D., Costa, F., Engel, J., Feldpausch, T., Castaño Arboleda, N., Durgante, F. M., Zartman, C. E., Killeen, T., Marimon, B., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Vasquez, R., Mostacedo, B., Assis, R., Amaral, D. D. D., Castellanos, H., Householder, J. E., de Medeiros, M. B., Simon, M. F., Andrade, A., Camargo, J. L., Laurance, S., Laurance, W., Rincón, L. M., Mori, G. B., Schietti, J., Sousa, T., de Sousa Farias, E., Lopes, M. A., Magalhães, J. L. L., Nascimento, H. E. M., de Queiroz, H. L., Vasconcelos, C., Aymard C, G., Brienen, R., Sousa Assis, P. L. D., Gris, D., Ribeiro, K. A. F., Stevenson, P., Araujo-Murakami, A., Cintra, B. B. L., Feitosa, Y. O., Mogollón, H., Silman, M., Ferreira, L. V., Lozada, J. R., Comiskey, J., de Toledo, J. J., Damasco, G., García-Villacorta, R., Lopes, A., Rios Paredes, M., Vicentini, A., Vieira, I. C. G., Cornejo Valverde, F., Alonso, A., Arroyo, L., Dallmeier, F., Gomes, V., Huari, W. N., Neill, D., Peñuela Mora, M. C., de Aguiar, D., Barbosa, F. R., Bredin, Y., de Sá Carpanedo, R., Carvalho, F. A., de Souza, F. C., Feeley, K., Gribel, R., Haugaasen, T., Noronha, J. C., Pansonato, M. P., Pipoly, J., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E., Silva, I. B. D., Ferreira, J., Ferreira, M. J., Fine, P., Guedes, M. C., Levis, C., Carlos Licona, J., Zegarra, B. E. V., Vos, V. A., Cerón, C., Fonty, É., Henkel, T., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Thomas, R., Daly, D., Dexter, K., Milliken, W., Molina, G. P., Pennington, T., Albuquerque, B. W., Campelo, W., Claros, A. F., Klitgaard, B., Pena, J. L. M., Montenegro, L. T., Tello, J. S., Vriesendorp, C., Chave, J., Di Fiore, A., Hilário, R. R., de Oliveira Pereira, L., Phillips, J. F., Rivas-Torres, G., van Andel, T., Hildebrand, P. V., Balee, W., Barbosa, E. M., Bonates, L. C. D. M., Dávila Doza, H. P., Zárate Gómez, R., Gonzales, G. P. G., Gonzales, T., Hoffman, B., Junqueira, A. B., Malhi, Y., Miranda, I. P. D. A., Pinto, L. F. M., Prieto, A., Rudas, A., Ruschel, A., Silva, N., Vela, C., Zent, E., Zent, S., Cano, A., Carrero Márquez, Y. A., Correa, D., Costa, J. B. P., Flores, B. M., Galbraith, D., Holmgren, M., Kalamandeen, M., Lobo, G., Mori Vargas, T., Nascimento, M. T., Oliveira, A., Ramirez-Angulo, H., Rocha, M., Scudeller, V. V., Heijden, G. V. D., Torre, E. V., Baider, C., Balslev, H., Cárdenas, S., Casas, L. F., Farfan-Rios, W., Linares-Palomino, R., Mendoza, C., Mesones, I., Parada, G. A., Torres-Lezama, A., Villarroel, D., Zagt, R., Alexiades, M., de Oliveira, E. A., Fortier, R., Garcia-Cabrera, K., Hernandez, L., Cuenca, W. P., Pansini, S., Pauletto, D., Arevalo, F. R., Sampaio, A. F., Valderrama Sandoval, E., Gamarra, L. V., Levesley, A. & Pickavance, G., 3 Mar 2025, In: Communications Biology. 8, 1, p. article no. 355 17 p., 355.

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