ded project on urban density and greenspace. Social and Environmental roles of gardens and residential landscapes. We have carried out the largest survey of gardens and garden owners in the UK. This ongoing work is central to the current debate on the form and density of new urban development in the UK.
Landscape Ecology

Habitat creation and restoration ecology. Ecological design theory. Urban ecology. Pattern and Process in natural vegetation. Long-term monitoring of herbaceous plant communities. I am the current holder of the Bibury Long-term data-set. This is the longest continuously recorded ecological experiment in the UK, with detailed annual records of the performance of over 100 species in roadside vegetation at Bibury, Gloucestershire over a 42 year from 1958 to present. This dataset contains very valuable information on the long-term dynamics of herbaceous plant communities, and on the response of native plants to changing climate. Other ongoing work relates to establishing diverse vegetation on ecologically-degraded sites such as contaminated or post-industrial land, or intensive agricultural fields.
Ecological Landscape Planting
Application of ecological concepts to landscape and garden planting. This research programme has received considerable media attention, concentrating on the development of a range of new vegetation types suited to urban parks. These vegetations draw inspiration from UK habitat types (coppiced woodlands, species-rich meadows, cornfield annuals), but are abstractions of them, linked more by ecological processes than precise species content (in fact, depending on context, they may contain few native species, or all native species). This approach offers the opportunity for a new way of establishing and maintaining public landscape plantings. The concept of abstracting from locally or regionally characteristic landscapes, habitats and plant communities as a basis for developing a design language that is rooted in

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