NERC Centre for Population Biology

The Centre for Population Biology (CPB) was a research centre funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) from 1989 to 2010.

The funding was for an Interdisciplinary research centre with the following goals:

To study the fundamental ecological processes which link individuals, populations and whole communities of plants, animals and micro-organisms.
To improve the scientific basis for understanding and predicting ecological processes, and the consequences of human impacts upon ecosystems.
To show how this knowledge can be applied to the rational management of the environment, with benefits for the quality of life and economic sustainability.
To train young post-graduate (PhD) and post-doctoral scientists.