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The Biodiversity & Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture Project: investigating biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm plantations

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Joined September 2013
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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: bit.ly/3BF6yw2 Summary👇
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Hugh Kearns@ithinkwellHugh22 Sep 2021
New #PhD student? Wondering what to read? A good start is to find some articles published by your supervisor. Look at the reference list. The stuff they're citing is probably the stuff you should be reading. #PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc #AcademicChatter
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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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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! antscience.com/opportunities…
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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: bit.ly/2S2t2k7) 🕷🐜🌴 Now you can read an accessible summary of the findings on our blog: zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/group…
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Équiterre@equiterre2 Nov 2020
#Report| According to @IPBES, the same human activities that drive climate change & biodiversity loss also drive pandemic risks. Preventing the latter, by providing strong economic incentives, would cost 100 times less than responding. 🌎🌍🌏 bit.ly/3kPODJp
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University of Kent
@UniKent2 Nov 2020
#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 kent.ac.uk/news/environment/…
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Jake Stone@_JakeStone_2 Sep 2020
Super pleased to be an author on this new paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1bej%…… by @MillieSCHood. Looking at how vegetation management practises affect ants in oil palm plantations. Free download for the next 45 days- authors.elsevier.com/a/1bej%…… @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
Holger Kreft@BioGeoKreft7 Oct 2020
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: uni-goettingen.de/en/305402.…
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New on the blog: how does replanting of #OilPalm plantations affect arthropod biodiversity? @Micharaneae discusses the recent paper, here: ow.ly/dsFw50BNkoI

How does replanting of oil palm plantations affect arthropod biodiversity?

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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Holger Kreft@BioGeoKreft7 Oct 2020
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: uni-goettingen.de/en/305402.…
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New research published today from @Micharaneae et al. explores replanting #oilpalm & its effects on arthropod abundance & spider biodiversity. What are the impacts for ecosystem processes, such as #pestcontrol, in second-generation plantations? ow.ly/vgg950BB4js
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New study led by @Micharaneae shows #oilpalm replanting may decrease invertebrate biodiversity in multiple microhabitats - gatescambridge.org/about/new… @aka_aryawan @SarahHLuke @naim07 @EdgarCTurner @CamZoology @InsectGroup @JesusCollegeCam @Cambridge_Uni @BEFTAprogramme #palmoil
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New study published in @JAppliedEcology finds that oil palm replanting may decrease the biodiversity of arthropods, such as insects and spiders. @Micharaneae @aka_aryawan @SarahHLuke @naim07 @EdgarCTurner @BEFTAprogramme @CamZoology

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Really pleased to announce that our latest paper is out now in @JAppliedEcology. In it, we investigate how replanting of oil palm plantations affects arthropod biodiversity. #OpenAccess link here: bit.ly/2S2t2k7 🌴🐜🦋🕷️🦟🌴
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Wow!
Jan Freedman@JanFreedman15 Sep 2020
I can share this! There are 4836 insects in the new insect display! It focuses on biodiversity and current biodiversity loss. Each specimen has a printed, hand cut label underneth to show exactly where it has come from in the collections.
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Amelia Hood@MillieSCHood2 Sep 2020
Really pleased to share the latest results from my PhD in #BasicandAppliedEcology which shows some current #oilpalm management practices are better for #ants than others authors.elsevier.com/a/1bej%… @InsectGroup @CamZoology @ZoologyMuseum (1/5)
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If you're attending #ESA2020 and are interested in how #replanting of oil palm plantations impacts arthropod biodiversity, feel free to check out my talk in Agriculture 5. I'm excited to attend my first ESA, and already buzzing with ideas from the talks I've seen!
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