The Biodiversity & Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture Project: investigating biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm plantations
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BEFTA Programme retweeted
21 Sep 2022
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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16 Aug 2022
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 🥳
oilpalmbiodiversity.com/publ…
16 Aug 2022
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!
10 Aug 2022
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🌱🔥🌺
bit.ly/3BVWqAr
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12 Nov 2021
Looking to do an MPhil @Cambridge_Uni and interested in tropical ecology? Check out this advert! This project involves several BEFTA researchers 🙂
12 Nov 2021
*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:
bit.ly/3Hentaw
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BEFTA Programme retweeted
22 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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
30 Jul 2021
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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
13 Jul 2021
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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24 Mar 2021
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.
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24 Mar 2021
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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. bit.ly/3slxSJy
BEFTA Programme retweeted
15 Dec 2020
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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15 Dec 2020
This is an incredible tool -- check out the virtual tour of the @efforts_crc990 projects!
15 Dec 2020
Join us for a virtual tour to our research project in Indonesia:
crc990.uni-goettingen.de/Int…
Just released online and publicly available !
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BEFTA Programme retweeted
14 Dec 2020
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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
24 Nov 2020
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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20 Nov 2020
Please contact @MillieSCHood if your research is applicable to this project.
20 Nov 2020
*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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
2 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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
2 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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
8 Oct 2020
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
7 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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BEFTA Programme retweeted
8 Oct 2020
New on the blog: how does replanting of #OilPalm plantations affect arthropod biodiversity?
@Micharaneae discusses the recent paper, here: ow.ly/dsFw50BNkoI
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BEFTA Programme retweeted
7 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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7 Oct 2020
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 🙂
bit.ly/2SyxBCP
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