Ecologist Kathryn Barry receives KNAW Early Career Award

Utrecht University researcher and plant ecologist Kathryn Barry has been granted the KNAW Early Career Award. With this award, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) acknowledges talented researchers at the start of their career, who are considered to be capable of developing innovative and original research ideas. Barry will receive the award during a festive ceremony on 14 February. Ecological crises. Barry's research focuses on the interaction between two big ecological crises, climate change and biodiversity loss. According to the ecologist, ecosystems with a higher diversity are better able to withstand stressful conditions caused by climate change. Barry: "Ecosystems with more plant species produce more biomass and fix more carbon than ecosystems with just one or a few species.