DICE Biodiversity Consulting

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Skills and Services

Our services

We offer tailored services built on our expertise in biodiversity and conservation planning. Delivered through data analysis, research, reporting, consultancy, and training, some of our key expertise areas are listed below. Please contact us to explore how this can fit with your organisation’s aims or to discuss any other biodiversity-related work.

Landscape scale planning

We design conservation area systems and ecological networks, using specialist approaches such as systematic conservation planning, to deliver interdisciplinary goals for nature recovery.

Policy evaluation and alignment

We undertake targeted reviews on nature and land use policy and legislation to identify gaps and opportunities for organisations.

Stakeholder engagement

We design and support stakeholder consultations to inform participatory conservation and nature recovery efforts.

Tailored Research

We deliver project-specific research across sectors, drawing on expertise ranging from habitat connectivity modelling to participatory-based conservation.

Training

We deliver bespoke training on ecology and conservation, including landscape planning using decision science tools and site-level habitat assessments.

Case Studies

Habitat management in the University of Kent

We are delivering training and habitat mapping to support biodiversity management on the University of Kent campus.

Expanding habitat protection in Guyana

We worked with governmental and NGO stakeholders to develop a protected area expansion plan in Guyana.

BBOWT Nature Recovery Network

We worked with the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust to identify a strategic regional plan using systematic conservation planning.

Nature Investment Zones

We are supporting the identification of Nature Investment Zones as part of an ambitious initiative to create a UK Strategic Nature Network

Publications

The work we do is rooted in our team’s strong research and scientific backgrounds. Here are some relevant scientific papers from our Innovation and E3 Teams, with more available on our research profiles.

Spatial conservation planning
  • Plumptre, A., Hayes, J., Baisero, D., Rose, R., Holness, S., von Staden, L., & Smith, R. J. (2024). Strengths and complementarity of systematic conservation planning and Key Biodiversity area approaches for spatial planning
  • Kor, L.., and Diazgranados, M. (2023) Identifying Important Plant Areas for useful plants in Colombia
  • Smith, R. J., Cartwright, S. J., Fairbairn, A. C., Lewis, D. C., Gibbon, G. E. M., Stewart, C. L., Sykes, R. E., & Addison, P. F. E. (2022). Developing a nature recovery network using systematic conservation planning
  • Smith, R. J. (2019) The CLUZ plugin for QGIS: designing conservation area systems and other ecological networks. Research Ideas and Outcomes
Habitat connectivity and remote sensing
  • Struebig, M.J., Wenzler, M., Runting, R.K., Law, E., Budiharta, S., Seaman, D. and Kramer-Schadt, S. (2024) Connectivity conservation to mitigate climate and land-cover change impacts on Borneo
  • Kor, L., O’Hickey, B., Hanson, M. and Coroi, M., (2022) Assessing habitat connectivity in environmental impact assessment: a case-study in the UK context
  • Seaman, D.J.I., Voigt, M., Bocedi, G. et al. (2021) Orangutan movement and population dynamics across human-modified landscapes: implications of policy and management
  • Pfeifer M, Kor L, Nilus R, … & Ewers R. (2016) Mapping the structure of Borneo’s tropical forests across a degradation gradient
Nature-based solutions 
  • Rampling, E. E., zu Ermgassen, S. O. S. E., Hawkins, I., & Bull, J. W. (2024) Achieving biodiversity net gain by addressing governance gaps underpinning ecological compensation policies
  • Fisher, J. C., Dallimer, M., Irvine, K. N., Aizlewood, S. G., Austen, G. E., … and Davies, Z. G. (2023). Human well-being responses to species’ traits
  • Kor, L., Homewood, K., Dawson, T.P. and Diazgranados, M. (2021) Sustainability of wild plant use in the Andean Community of South America
  • Holland J, Douma J, Crowley L, James L, Kor L, Stevenson D, Smith B (2017) Semi-natural habitats support biological control, pollination and soil conservation in Europe
Community-based conservation
  • Kor, L., Fernández-Lucero, M., Granados Flórez, D.A., Dawson, T.P. and Diazgranados, M. (2024). Bridging local and scientific knowledge for area-based conservation of useful plants in Colombia
  • Morgans, C. L., Jago, S., Andayani, N., Linkie, M., Lo, M. G., Mumbunan, S., … and Struebig, M. J. (2024). Improving well‐being and reducing deforestation in Indonesia’s protected areas
  • Lo, M.G., Morgans, C.L., Santika, T., … Davies, Z.G. and Struebig, M.J., (2024). Nickel mining reduced forest cover in Indonesia but had mixed outcomes for well-being