Coskun Güçlü, Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a postdoctoral fellow within the Biodiversity and Environmental Change Lab at HKU studying ecosystem restoration, rewilding and secondary succession in tropical forests.

I am interested in the impacts of active and passive restoration upon the biodiversity of multiple taxonomic groups and the responses of ecosystem services. I use a combination of molecular, field-based and statistical techniques to answer questions surrounding conservation with an applied, policy-facing outlook. My PhD research tracked community assembly in plants, fungi and bacteria during passive secondary succession and active restoration via field surveys and eDNA techniques. My current work models spatial and temporal patterns of forest regeneration through region-wide surveys of above and belowground communities. Email: coskun.guclu@gmail.com