BSc University of East Anglia (2000) PhD University of East Anglia (2005) Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leeds (2007-10) STEP Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (2010-11) ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, James Cook University (2011-13) Lecturer of Conservation Science, University of Sheffield (2013-present)

My research focuses on understanding the impacts of land-use change on tropical biodiversity. I am particularly interested in understanding the most effective ways of managing tropical landscapes for biodiversity protection and the mechanisms that can be used to fund protection, although I have a range of interests, including;

Impacts of logging management on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Tropical agriculture and sustainability. The interaction between climate change and land-use change on extinction risk. Cost-effective conservation within the tropics. Policy drivers of tropical forest protection, including REDD+ and sustainability labeling. Mechanisms of maintenance in mutualism.

Socolar, S.J., Gilroy, J.J., Kunin, W.E., Edwards, D.P. (2016) How should beta-diversity inform biodiversity conservation? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 67-80 Edwards, D.P., Gilroy, J.J., Thomas, G.H., Medina, C.A., Haugaasen, T. (2015) Land-sparing agriculture best protects avian phylogenetic diversity. Current Biology 25: 2384-2391 Gilroy, J.J., Prescott G.W., Cardenas, J.S., Castaneda, P., Medina, C.A., Haugaasen, T., Edwards, D.P. (2015) Minimizing the biodiversity impact of Neotropical oil palm development. Global Change Biology 21: 1531-1540 Lewis, S.L., Edwards, D.P., Galbraith, D. (2015) Increasing human dominance of tropical forests. Science 349: 827-832 Magnago, L., Magrach, A., Laurance, W.F., Martins, S.V., Meira-Neto, J.A., Simonelli, M., Edwards, D.P. (2015) Would protecting tropical forest fragments provide carbon and biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+? Global Change Biology 9: 3455-3468 Warren-Thomas, E., Dolman, P.M., Edwards, D.P. (2015) Increasing demand for natural rubber necessitates a robust sustainability initiative to mitigate impacts on tropical biodiversity. Conservation Letters 8:230-241 Edwards, D.P., Gilroy, J.J., Woodcock, P., Edwards, F.A., Larsen, T.H., Andrews, D.J.R., Docherty, T.D.S., Hsu, W.W., Mitchell, S.L., Ota, T., Williams, L., Laurance, W.F., Hamer, K.C., Wilcove, D.S. (2014) Land-sharing versus land-sparing logging: Reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation. Global Change Biology 20: 183-191