ReDiLEEP: a doctoral network on response diversity

ReDiLEEP — “using Response Diversity knowledge to Leverage Efficient Ecosystem Preservation and restoration” — is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network funded through the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.

The network recruits PhD candidates into linked projects across a consortium of universities, research institutes, policy organisations, NGOs, and industry partners. Doctoral researchers get disciplinary training, cross-sector supervision, secondments to partner organisations, and a shared cohort experience across the whole network, rather than working in isolation at a single institution.

ReDiLEEP’s three interconnected goals are:

• developing standardised metrics for measuring response diversity across ecosystems;
• fostering collaboration between ecological research and policy implementation; and
• creating practical frameworks that put response diversity to work in conservation and restoration.

Response diversity — variation among species or organisms in how they respond to environmental change — is a big part of what keeps ecosystem functions stable when conditions shift. Helping turn that idea into something measurable and usable by policy- and decision-makers is exactly the kind of applied, cross-institutional organising this group is glad to be part of.

(Details of our specific role and doctoral projects within the consortium to be added.)