Jed is passionate about rewilding and regenerative agriculture, particularly in exploring and understanding how to encourage nature recovery in soils and their responses to different interventions. Focusing mainly on the UK, Jed has previously worked on understanding mycorrhizal responses to rewilding at the Knepp Wildland, and is now also partnered with the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping (CHCx3) to investigate soils under regenerative agriculture regimes. It is hoped that this knowledge can help contribute to and inform successful landscape scale conservation and nature recovery in the UK.
Jed holds an MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge, and an MPhil in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management from the University of Oxford, with previous experience prior to beginning his postgraduate studies working in circular economy consulting. In his spare time, Jed is also a keen gardener and forager who loves to share his passions with anyone who’s keen to listen!
Related Projects
Expanding native forest in Scotland: small-scale mechanisms, landscape-scale responses
Experimental and landscape-scale data collection to understand above and belowground drivers of and responses to native forest expansion in the Scottish Highlands
Healthy Ecosystem Restoration in Oxfordshire
Developing the local Oxfordshire landscape as a case-study, nature-recovery laboratory and community of practice.
Revealing the compositional and functional responses of mycorrhizal fungi to rewilding at the Knepp Wildland
Using novel eDNA methods to understand if rewilding is also serving below-ground communities, focusing on 'keystone' mycorrhizal communities and their functions.
The role of regenerative farming for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
We utilise both standardised and cutting-edge methods to explore biodiversity and ecosystem functioning along a land use gradient to better understand the role of regenerative farming.
An energetic approach to assessing nature recovery in soils – a regenerative agriculture case study
Measuring and comparing energy to and through soil biodiversity under regenerative and chemical farming to understand and assess nature recovery in this traditional ‘black box’
Related Outputs
Regenerative Agriculture in the UK. An ecological perspective
This report, produced by the British Ecological Society brings together 40 academics, including LCNR’s Jed Soleiman, practitioners and farmers across the UK to explore the evidence for Regenerative Agriculture as a solution to delivering for both food and nature. Summary report here
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