Dr Marco Campera

PhD

Senior Lecturer in Conservation and Biodiversity

School of Biological and Medical Sciences

Marco Campera

Role

I am a researcher with a strong interest in ecology and conservation.

I am currently leading a project on sustainable agroforestry in Indonesia. I collaborate with farmer cooperatives, businesses and local governments. My aim is to study which agroforestry systems already present present the better balance between profitability and biodiversity/ecosystem services outcomes. 

I also have extensive experience in other tropical contexts, and started my research career on the behavioural ecology of primates. 

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

Module leader

  • BIOL5012: Surveys and Licensing
  • BIOL5023: Threatened Species
  • BIOL7014: Ecosystem Degradation and Management

Research Students

Name Thesis title Completed
Vinni Jain Evaluating biodiversity, ecosystem services, and social dynamics across community-managed agroforests in Indonesia Active

Research

I am an experienced and flexible researcher and data modeller. I have a broad interest in behavioural ecology, including activity patterns, diet, ranging patterns, and stress levels. I recently extended my research interest in applied conservation, including conservation education and sustainable agriculture. I conducted research projects in Indonesia, Madagascar and Costa Rica.

Awards

  • Impact Development Funding (£4900, PI) for the project 'Prototype app creation to deliver traceable agricultural supply-chain compliance with biodiversity and environmental targets’.
  • Rolling Impact Development Awards (£4,800) for the project ‘non-timber forest products production and consumption’.
  • HEIF Partnership Award (£14,100) for the project 'An exploration of the UK consumers' response to new eco labelling on food products and how the label impacts decision making’. This is in collaboration with Sunbear Bioworks, a start-up based in the Bioinnovation Hub.
  • HLS Developing Potential Research Excellence Award (£9,750) for the project ‘Ecosystem services provided by non-timber forest products’. This is in collaboration with businesses and local government in Bali, Indonesia.

Research grants

  • Project "Community-based wildlife-friendly Fairtrade coffee production and importance of Javan Slow Loris and Common Palm Civet conservation in Java, Indonesia"
    • Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund: $10000 (2019)
  • Project "Exploring niche partitioning in strepsirrhines: Lepilemur fleuretae and Avahi meridionalis in the lowland rainforest of South-Eastern Madagascar"
    • Rufford Small Grant Foundation: £4980
    • Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund: $5000 (2014) 
    • Primate Conservation Inc: $3200
    • Primate Action Fund: $3000
    • Primate Society of Great Britain: £750

Groups

Projects

  • Wildlife Friendly Coffee
  • Sustainable non-timber forest products production and consumption in Indonesia

Publications

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Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

  • British Ecological Society
  • Primatological Society of Great Britain
  • Association of Applied Biologists

Conferences

  • 2025. Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resources symposium. Oxford Brookes University (co-organiser).
  • 2024. Open data for sustainable business solutions. Oxfordshire Open Data Sandpit.
  • 2023. Monitoring of multi-crop rustic systems by local communities in Bali, Indonesia. Citizen Science Pisa congress.
  • 2023. Sustainable production and consumption of non-timber forest products in Indonesia. Addressing Global Challenges: Co-producing Alternative Futures.
  • 2021. Agrochemicals, shade cover, and distance to the forest influence bird abundance in coffee home gardens in Indonesia. British Ecological Society.
  • 2020. Wildlife Friendly coffee conference. Java, Indonesia (organiser).
  • 2019. Health and human habituation influence the survival of translocated and dispersing individuals in a territorial mammal. International Congress for Conservation Biology.
  • 2017. A novel approach to study activity patterns of cryptic primates: Unsupervised Learning Algorithm for data from three-axis accelerometer tags. European Federation of Primatology.
  • 2014. Are so many males useful? Assessing the role of subordinate males of Eulemur collaris in increasing social thermoregulation. Primate Society of Great Britain.
  • 2013. Effects of habitat quality and seasonality on ranging behavior of Eulemur collaris in littoral forest fragments, South-East Madagascar. European Federation of Primatology, Antwerpen.
  • 2011. Ecological and demographic correlates to primate densities in fragments of lowland rainforest at La Suerte Biological Station, Northeastern Costa Rica. Italian Primatological Association.

Further details

Invited Talks

  • 2024. Sustainable production of crops and non-timber forest products in Indonesia. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
  • 2023. Lorises in anthropogenic landscapes: ecology, threats and conservation. Oxfordshire Mammal Group.
  • 2022. Wildlife friendly products from agroforestry systems. Forestry Summer Course, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
  • 2021. Animal assemblages in relation to organic and wildlife-friendly farming in coffee home gardens. BMS seminars, Oxford Brookes University.
  • 2021. Wildlife friendly products from agroforestry systems. Forestry Summer Course, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
  • 2021. Lorises. Virtual Primatology Conference, Central Washington University.
  • 2020. Coffee for conservation: promotion of organic and wildlife-friendly practices among farmers to protect biodiversity in Java, Indonesia. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
  • 2019. Radio telemetry for wildlife study. Wildlife Conservation Forum, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
  • 2019. Coffee for conservation: promotion of organic and Wildlife Friendly practices among farmers at Cipaganti, Java, to protect local biodiversity. Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, Oxford University.