Super pleased to be an author on this new paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1bej%7E57Eq0…… by Amelia Hood. Looking at how vegetation management practises affect ants in oil palm plantations. Free download for the next 45 days- authors.elsevier.com/a/1bej%7E57Eq0…… Insect Ecology Group Dept of Zoology BEFTA Programme

New blog from PhD student Jake Stone 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

Please RT! We have a vacant 3-yr (!) postdoc position in our EFForTS - CRC 990 #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.html…

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 Uni Göttingen BioGeo Göttingen

New on the blog: how does replanting of #OilPalm plantations affect arthropod biodiversity? @Micharaneae discusses the recent paper, here: ow.ly/dsFw50BNkoI

#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

#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/environme…

Please contact Amelia Hood if your research is applicable to this project.

Remember our recent Journal of Applied Ecology 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…

Hello #BES2020! Several of us have talks + posters at #festivalofecology - do check them out! 🌴 oil palm with @Micharaneae 🦋 butterflies with Dr Esme Ashe-Jepson + Matt Hayes 🏛 museum invert collections with Bethan Wallace 🦊 children's perceptions of wildlife with Kate Howlett

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/

This is an incredible tool -- check out the virtual tour of the EFForTS - CRC 990 projects!

Check out Sarah Luke'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. 🕷️🌴🪲

Come join us ATBC in our interactive symposia, "Young voices & visions in tropical restoration science". July 22nd, 1-2pm UTC (all further details in Trisha's tweet!🙂).

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.

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

Looking to do an MPhil Cambridge University and interested in tropical ecology? Check out this advert! This project involves several BEFTA researchers 🙂

New open-access opinion piece from BEFTA researchers in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 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!

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/publications/

Our new manuscript BEFTA Programme shows that spiders in oil palm plantations are robust to changes in understory vegetation management. Published today in Basic and Applied Ecology 🕷️🎉 Open access here: bit.ly/3BF6yw2 Summary👇