Rate My Professor Andrew Suggitt

Dr Andrew Suggitt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Geography and Natural Sciences at Northumbria University, where he leads the Ecology, Conservation, and Society Research Group. He earned his PhD in Ecology from the University of York between 2007 and 2011. Suggitt joined Northumbria University in 2019 as a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow before advancing to his current position as Assistant Professor. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the British Ecological Society since 2008. Additionally, he serves on the committee of the Royal Geographical Society's Geography and Education Research Group, focusing on improving the physical accessibility of university fieldwork.

Suggitt's research investigates the effects of environmental change on biodiversity, with a particular emphasis on how microclimates interact with macroclimatic shifts to shape species' ecological niches and influence their vulnerability to extinction under ongoing climate change. His projects employ cutting-edge microclimate modeling alongside digitized historical land-use maps of Great Britain to quantify the combined impacts of climate warming and land conversion on species' range dynamics and extinction risks across plants, moths, and other taxa. He also identifies climatic refugia to guide adaptation strategies for range-retracting species. Collaborating with researchers across the UK, Europe, and globally, his work has produced over 37 research outputs, accumulating more than 1,755 citations. Notable publications include 'Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa' (Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2024), 'Linking climate warming and land conversion to species’ range changes across Great Britain' (Nature Communications, 2023), 'Rapid seagrass meadow expansion in an Indian Ocean bright spot' (Scientific Reports, 2024), 'Global mismatches between threat mapping research effort and the potential of threat abatement actions to reduce extinction risk' (Conservation Biology, 2024), and 'Precipitation buffers temperature-driven local extinctions of moths at warm range margins' (Ecology Letters, 2023).