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Trisos, Christopher

Director and Senior Researcher, University of Cape Town, ACDI

christopher.trisos@uct.ac.za

Dr Trisos now directs the Climate Risk Lab (https://climaterisklab.com/) at the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town. His research maps climate change risks to people and ecosystems, and combines insights from environmental and social sciences to understand how we can adapt to climate change risks. He has consulted on climate change risks for the World Bank and is an author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. You can watch a video of his research on biodiversity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR7gKqThHqk&ab_channel=ChristopherTrisos.

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As an ecologist, I aim to do science to help both people and the planet. I grew up in South Africa and completed my undergraduate degree in ecology and economics at the University of Cape Town. My core research interest is understanding biodiversity change. My PhD research at the University of Oxford used ecology and evolutionary biology to explain biodiversity patterns in South American birds. I recognise that environmental problems are also social problems, and enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams. My focus at SESYNC is to understand how changes in human systems are connected to changes in ecological systems.

My research projects ask:

1. What are the potential impacts of climate change and climate engineering technologies on biodiversity?

2. Do cities help or harm biodiversity?

3. How do we combine ecology and economics to sustainably manage connected human and ecological systems?

CV:

christophertrisoscv_alu.pdf

Associated Projects:

Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity

Cross-Disciplinary Statistical Applications in the Anthropocene

Resources
The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change	Apr 08, 2020 Article published in Nature.
The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity	Apr 08, 2020 Article published in Ecology Letters.
Effects of Urbanization on Native Bird Species in Three Southwestern US Cities	Apr 15, 2019 Article published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Mosquito net ﬁshing exempliﬁes conﬂict among Sustainable Development Goals	Jan 08, 2019 Comment published in Nature Sustainability.
Climate engineering needs a clean bill of health	Sep 28, 2018 Article published in Nature Climate Change.
Ecological, Agricultural, and Health Impacts of Solar Geoengineering	May 18, 2018 Chapter in Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change.
Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination	Jan 22, 2018 Article published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Host associations and turnover of haemosporidian parasites in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)	Mar 14, 2017 Article published Parasitology.
Species loss: learn from health metrics	Oct 20, 2016 Article published in Nature: Correspondence.
Functional traits reveal the expansion and packing of ecological niche space underlying an elevational diversity gradient in passerine birds	Jan 06, 2016 Article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.