Great Postdoc available in Microclimate Modelling - join our team to create a virtual rainforest - closing date 3rd Jan 2022 - ow.ly/95r250H5az1

How machine learning and soundscape recordings could be used to predict ecosystem health around the world - What Does A Healthy Rainforest Sound Like? Interview with Dr Sarab Sethi on npr shortwave npr.org/2021/12/06/106…

Good news! It is now possible to acquire occupancy data for birds and herpetofauna in tropical forests at low costs using acoustic recorders! ow.ly/7PYn50IeP6p #occupancy #ecology #bioacoustics

Logging practices have a reduced impact on ecosystem function in tropical forests - check out Junia Anilik's Masters thesis - looking at soil features, bacteria and arthropods at SAFE ow.ly/M7BB50Jhz5a

You are 1.5 times more likely to encounter a potential Dengue Fever carrying mosquito in Oil Palm Plantations than in the rainforest - ow.ly/TowY50Ks0O8 #Dengue

The soil properties in the mounds of social insects vary between taxa and when humans have altered the environment - ow.ly/8Qx950Ks6Jm #termites #Borneo #soil

The duet of a pair of Northern gray gibbons may contain information about pair identity - ow.ly/Nc0250KAYIL #northerngraygibbon #Borneo

Check out these papers that include data from the SAFE Project - Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change (ow.ly/V9TI50KAZAA) and Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (ow.ly/pVUS50KAZAF)

A huge thank you to the tireless, dedicated field crews of SAFE Project, SEARRP and Lambir, and other staff who contributed to the logistics! I estimate the paper incorporates ~35 person years of fieldwork.

On the topic of eddy covariance… here is the beautiful view from the top of the SAFE Project flux tower

New paper finds logged tropical forests are carbon sources for at least 10 years after logging events - not carbon sinks! SEARRP Carbon safeproject.net/outputs/view_o…

SAFE paper finds: riparian buffers in oil palm landscapes - the bigger the better to mitigate biodiversity decline, but still lack forest dependent-species ow.ly/qhgK50MB4Gn

We used data from a plantation landscape in Sabah SAFE Project to model outcomes for biodiversity at varying set-aside sizes compared to the 'uniform' approach. We used real data on biodiversity 🦜🪲🦣🦇& ecosystem functions & modelled trade-offs involved. /4

NEW OUTPUT: Well planned set-asides in oil palm plantations can increase biodiversity without reducing net cultivation area safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #oilpalm

Implications for Water Management under Climate Change - lessons from a land-use change gradient from pristine forest to oil palm in Borneo #baseflow safeproject.net/outputs/view_o…

Animal density estimates possible just using camera-trap data safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #cameratrap #Borneo

SAFE OUTPUT: LiDAR used to map growth rates of individual oil palms - during drought trees nearer forest edges and young trees grew better safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #oilpalm #LiDAR

SAFE OUTPUT - Multi-stemmed trees survive better and grow more in logged forests in Borneo safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #mutlistem #loggedforest

JOB VACANCIES on the Virtual Ecosystem Project - Ecologist or data scientist to analyse a tropical rainforest ecosystem - 4 vacancies - job description: safeproject.net/marketplace/vi…

JOB VACANCY - We are looking for a Software Developer to join our Virtual Ecosystem team at Silwood Park - closing date 15th Aug - imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…