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The Biodiversity & Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture Project: investigating biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm plantations
Joined September 2013
Our new manuscript @BEFTAprogramme shows that spiders in oil palm plantations are robust to changes in understory vegetation management. Published today in @BasicApplEcol 🕷️🎉 Open access here: https://t.co/Zumd3uU50U Summary👇
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New papers uploaded to the BEFTA website on restoring tropical agroecosystems worldwide, spiders in our BEFTA-UVP plots, and mapping oil palm-based research! 🙂 All open-access 💸 We've hit our 25th paper from the programme 🥳 https://t.co/K8MJiuIEd8
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New open-access opinion piece from BEFTA researchers in @Trends_Ecol_Evo, and focussed on restoration of tropical agriculture. It profiles our BEFTA-UVP and RERTA projects, which focus on restoring understory vegetation complexity and riparian buffers in oil palm plantations!
Really excited to announce our new opinion article is online @Trends_Ecol_Evo 🧵 In it, we outline 9 actions to guide future restoration of tropical agroecosystems🌱🔥🌺 https://t.co/Jp6AyqLRlJ
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Looking to do an MPhil @Cambridge_Uni and interested in tropical ecology? Check out this advert! This project involves several BEFTA researchers 🙂
*MPhil project advert* We are recruiting an MPhil student (master's student), starting October 2022, to join our new project that is assessing socioecological differences between land use systems in Liberia. Get in touch if you're interested! Details: https://t.co/RMVFuJHeA5
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Going to #ESA2021? Tune into Oral Session 23: Socioecological Impacts of Oil Palm Agriculture. This is an interdisciplinary session that is focussed on oil palm-related research, with implications for sustainable management of tropical agricultural systems.
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Come join us @theATBC in our interactive symposia, "Young voices & visions in tropical restoration science". July 22nd, 1-2pm UTC (all further details in Trisha's tweet!🙂).
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Check out @SarahHLuke's fantastic tweets on key BEFTA Programme findings, and how she and others are working with both academic and industry communities to manage agricultural systems more sustainably. 🕷️🌴🪲
1/12 #UEACEEC21 #Sesh2 Hello, I'm Sarah from @InsectGroup & Agroecology Group @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni. Today I’ll be presenting results from ongoing collaborative work in #oilpalm in #Indonesia & development of tools for more #sustainable #agriculture. https://t.co/Y1cWBLrq8G
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New PhD and postdoctoral positions in the Klimes and Fayle labs at my Department, on rainforest ant ecology in New Guinea and Borneo - highly recommended!
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This is an incredible tool -- check out the virtual tour of the @efforts_crc990 projects!
Join us for a virtual tour to our research project in Indonesia: https://t.co/oZLx5kPqvW Just released online and publicly available !
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Hello #BES2020! Several of us have talks + posters at #festivalofecology - do check them out! 🌴 oil palm with @Micharaneae 🦋 butterflies with @esme_ashe + @MatthewPHayes 🏛 museum invert collections with @Biologybethan 🦊 children's perceptions of wildlife with @k_howlett
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Remember our recent @JAppliedEcology paper led by @Micharaneae on arthropod diversity in oil palm? (#OpenAccess link: https://t.co/k24J93oyF8) 🕷🐜🌴 Now you can read an accessible summary of the findings on our blog: https://t.co/GdUXzW9MKj
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Please contact @MillieSCHood if your research is applicable to this project.
*Search for collaborators w agriculture data* Im interested in the quality of reporting in agricultural studies (eg no. of studies reporting location or farm management). We have data for cassava agriculture but want it for other crops, particularly temperate ones 1/2 @CamZoology
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#Research led by @DICE_Kent has found that Indonesian communities living near oil palm plantations are impacted in different ways, both positive and negative, during plantation development and certification. #conservation #indonesia #borneo
https://t.co/RjhgwWTMnY
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Super pleased to be an author on this new paper https://t.co/PxY1s5Ao6T… by @MillieSCHood. Looking at how vegetation management practises affect ants in oil palm plantations. Free download for the next 45 days- https://t.co/PxY1s5Ao6T…
@InsectGroup @CamZoology @BEFTAprogramme
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Join our international team for this 3-year postdoc position on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functions of oil palm plantations via planting of native tree species in Jambi, Sumatra Application deadline: 31 October @uniGoettingen @BioGeoMacro
Please RT! We have a vacant 3-yr (!) postdoc position in our @efforts_crc990 #biodiversity enrichment experiment. Interested in BEF research / #restoration, synthesis, #multi-trophic biodiv and #multifunctionality? What are you waiting for? Details here: https://t.co/1tYVXIpYem
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New on the blog: how does replanting of #OilPalm plantations affect arthropod biodiversity? @Micharaneae discusses the recent paper, here:
appliedecologistsblog.com
Palm oil plantations require replanting every twenty to thirty years but its effects on biodiversity are widely understudied. In their latest research, Pashkevich and colleagues assess the impact o…
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Please RT! We have a vacant 3-yr (!) postdoc position in our @efforts_crc990 #biodiversity enrichment experiment. Interested in BEF research / #restoration, synthesis, #multi-trophic biodiv and #multifunctionality? What are you waiting for? Details here: https://t.co/1tYVXIpYem
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New blog from PhD student @_JakeStone_ on the BEFTA website! In it, Jake discusses his trip to some fantastic rainforest and karst ecosystems in Malaysia. Give it a read 🙂 https://t.co/P7rHxqGqCJ
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