Louise Ashton

Louise ASHTON is a tropical rainforest ecologist and her research goals include understanding biodiversity, how ecosystems function and how they are changing due to human activity. She started the Biodiversity and Environmental Change Lab at the University of Hong Kong in 2018 where we use insects as ecological tools to understand our changing world. She works in the rainforests of Australia, Malaysia and China and where we have ongoing collaborative projects investigating insect biodiversity and ecosystem process under climate change, drought and habitat loss, as well as the restoration of forests to mitigate these impacts. She is passionate about combining research and teaching to help train the next generation of scientists needed to help address the threats to ecosystems.