BEFTA Programme

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

[Michael Pashkevich @MDPashkevich]

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👇

[BEFTA Programme @BEFTAprogramme]

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

[BEFTA Programme @BEFTAprogramme]

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!

[Michael Pashkevich @MDPashkevich]

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

[BEFTA Programme @BEFTAprogramme]

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

[Michael Pashkevich @MDPashkevich]

*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

[Hugh Kearns @ithinkwellHugh]

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

[Michael Pashkevich @MDPashkevich]

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.

[Michael Pashkevich @MDPashkevich]

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!🙂).

[BEFTA Programme @BEFTAprogramme]

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.

🕷️🌴🪲

[Sarah Luke @SarahHLuke]

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

[Vojtech Novotny @Liklikmasalai]

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! https://t.co/JHjBqQDvYJ

[BEFTA Programme @BEFTAprogramme]

This is an incredible tool -- check out the virtual tour of the @efforts_crc990 projects!

[EFForTS - CRC 990 @efforts_crc990]

Join us for a virtual tour to our research project in Indonesia:
https://t.co/oZLx5kPqvW

Just released online and publicly available !

[Insect Ecology Group @InsectGroup]

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

[Insect Ecology Group @InsectGroup]

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

[BEFTA Programme @BEFTAprogramme]

Please contact @MillieSCHood if your research is applicable to this project.

[Amelia Hood @MillieSCHood]

*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

[Équiterre @equiterre]

#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. 🌎🌍🌏 https://t.co/shu6EKlvNS

[University of Kent @UniKent]

#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

[Jake Stone @_JakeStone_]

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

[EFForTS - CRC 990 @efforts_crc990]

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

[Journal of Applied Ecology @JAppliedEcology]

New on the blog: how does replanting of #OilPalm plantations affect arthropod biodiversity?

@Micharaneae discusses the recent paper, here: https://t.co/Uf32ibHdxE

[Holger Kreft @BioGeoKreft]

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

[BEFTA Programme @BEFTAprogramme]

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