Jane Hill is an ecologist at the University of York examining how species (particularly insects) are responding and adapting to Anthropocene environmental changes.
She examines the fundamental ecological and landscape processes that determine where species occur, trends in their abundances, and the consequences for populations and communities. She is particularly interested in butterflies and moths, and in examining how and why species move across continents and through landscapes, and the consequences of these dynamic processes for local biodiversity. Her research examines UK landscapes as well as tropical rainforest landscapes of Borneo, and she uses data analysis, computer modelling, and lab and field experiments and observations to quantify the causes and consequences of biodiversity change.
She received her PhD from Bangor University.
She received an OBE for services to conservation ecology in the 2023 King’s birthday honours list, was President of the Royal Entomological Society (2022-24), was awarded honorary Fellowship of the Royal Entomological Society in 2016, and received the Marsh award for conservation from the Zoological Society of London in 2011.
