Professor David Edwards
School of Biosciences
Professor of Conservation Science
david.edwards@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0147
+44 114 222 0147
E210, Alfred Denny Building
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Professor David Edwards
School of Biosciences
E210
Alfred Denny Building
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
School of Biosciences
E210
Alfred Denny Building
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
- Profile
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- Professor of Conservation Science, University of Sheffield (2018-present)
- Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science, University of Sheffield (2016-18)
- Lecturer in Conservation Science, University of Sheffield (2013-16)
- ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, James Cook University (2011-13)
- STEP Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (2010-11)
- Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leeds (2007-10)
- PhD University of East Anglia (2005)
- BSc University of East Anglia (2000)
- Research interests
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My research focuses on understanding the impacts of land-use change and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity. I am particularly interested in understanding the most effective ways of managing tropical landscapes for biodiversity protection and the mechanisms that can be used to fund protection, although I have a range of interests, including;
- Impacts of selective logging management on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Global wildlife trade
- Tropical agriculture, mining and sustainability
- Conservation policy and carbon-based payments for ecosystem services in the tropics
- Pan-tropical Forest and Landscape Restoration agenda.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes. Ecology. View this article in WRRO
- Indigenous lands in protected areas have high forest integrity across the tropics. Current Biology, 32(22), 4949-4956.e3.
- The homogenization of avian morphological and phylogenetic diversity under the global extinction crisis. Current Biology, 32(17), 3830-3837. View this article in WRRO
- The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches. Science.
- Mixed protection of threatened species traded under CITES. Current Biology. View this article in WRRO
- Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically. Nature Sustainability, 5(2), 123-130. View this article in WRRO
- Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes. Current Biology, 31(19), R1326-R1341.
- Sparing land for secondary forest regeneration protects more tropical biodiversity than land sharing in cattle farming landscapes. Current Biology. View this article in WRRO
- Forest regeneration on European sheep pasture is an economically viable climate change mitigation strategy. Environmental Research Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Reconciling Rubber Expansion with Biodiversity Conservation. Current Biology.
- A distinctive new species of flowerpecker (Passeriformes: Dicaeidae) from Borneo. Zootaxa, 4686(4), 451-464. View this article in WRRO
- Conservation of Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene. Current Biology, 29(19), R1008-R1020.
- Global wildlife trade across the tree of life. Science, 366(6461), 71-76. View this article in WRRO
- Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests. Nature Climate Change. View this article in WRRO
- Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians. Current Biology, 29, 1557-1563. View this article in WRRO
- Actively restoring resilience in selectively logged tropical forests. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(1), 107-118.
- Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated. Nature Communications, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Protecting tropical forests from the rapid expansion of rubber using carbon payments. Nature Communications, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Tropical forests are thermally buffered despite intensive selective logging. Global Change Biology, 24(3), 1267-1278. View this article in WRRO
- Perverse Market Outcomes from Biodiversity Conservation Interventions. Conservation Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Land-Sparing Agriculture Best Protects Avian Phylogenetic Diversity. Current Biology, 25(18), 2384-2391. View this article in WRRO
- Increasing Demand for Natural Rubber Necessitates a Robust Sustainability Initiative to Mitigate Impacts on Tropical Biodiversity. Conservation Letters, 8(4), 230-241. View this article in WRRO
- Increasing human dominance of tropical forests. Science, 349(6250), 827-832.
- How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation?. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31(1), 67-80.
- Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism. Nature Climate Change, 4(6), 503-507.
- Microhabitats reduce animal's exposure to climate extremes.. Glob Chang Biol, 20(2), 495-503.
- Mining and the African Environment. CONSERVATION LETTERS, 7(3), 302-311.
- Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 29(9), 511-520.
- Navjot's nightmare revisited: Logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28(9), 531-540.
- Degraded lands worth protecting: the biological importance of Southeast Asia's repeatedly logged forests. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 278(1702), 82-90.
- Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
All publications
Edited books
- Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology. Routledge.
Journal articles
- Toward a standardized methodology for sampling dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in the Neotropics: A critical review. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11.
- Phylogeny and morphology determine vulnerability to global warming in Pristimantis frogs. Land, 12(1).
- Invasive alien acacias rapidly stock carbon, but threaten biodiversity recovery in young second-growth forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1867).
- The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade. Biological Reviews.
- High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes. Ecology. View this article in WRRO
- Indigenous lands in protected areas have high forest integrity across the tropics. Current Biology, 32(22), 4949-4956.e3.
- Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism.. Bioscience, 72(11), 1118-1130.
- Biogeographic multi‐species occupancy models for large‐scale survey data. Ecology and Evolution, 12(10).
- The homogenization of avian morphological and phylogenetic diversity under the global extinction crisis. Current Biology, 32(17), 3830-3837. View this article in WRRO
- The value of shifting cultivation for biodiversity in Northeast India. Diversity and Distributions.
- Severity of deforestation mediates biotic homogenisation in an island archipelago. Ecography.
- Carbon payments can cost-effectively improve logging sustainability in the Amazon. Journal of Environmental Management, 314.
- Ignoring variation in wood density drives substantial bias in biomass estimates across spatial scales. Environmental Research Letters, 17(5), 054002-054002.
- Riparian reserves protect butterfly communities in selectively logged tropical forest. Journal of Applied Ecology.
- Corrigendum to “Multiple lines of evidence confirm that the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) is an independent species” [Avian Research, 13 (2022) 100022]. Avian Research, 100025-100025.
- Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests. Ecology and Evolution, 12(3).
- The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches. Science.
- Asking the right questions in explaining tropical diversity: response to Cannon and Lerdau. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
- Multiple lines of evidence confirm that the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) is an independent species. Avian Research, 13. View this article in WRRO
- Global biogeographic patterns of avian morphological diversity. Ecology Letters, 25(3), 598-610.
- Mixed protection of threatened species traded under CITES. Current Biology. View this article in WRRO
- Combining Sentinel-1 and Landsat 8 does not improve classification accuracy of tropical selective logging. Remote Sensing, 14(1).
- Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically. Nature Sustainability, 5(2), 123-130. View this article in WRRO
- Island biogeography revisited: Museomics reveals affinities of shelf island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland. Molecular Biology and Evolution. View this article in WRRO
- Impacts of tropical selective logging on local-scale movements of understory birds. Biological Conservation, 264, 109374-109374.
- Land-sharing logging is more profitable than land sparing in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters, 16(11), 114002-114002.
- Protecting habitats in low-intensity tropical farmland using carbon-based payments for ecosystem services. Environmental Research Letters, 16(11). View this article in WRRO
- Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes. Current Biology, 31(19), R1326-R1341.
- The dangers of misrepresenting wildlife trade: Response to Natusch et al. (2021).. Conserv Biol.
- Impacts of selective logging on haemosporidian infection and physiological correlates in tropical birds.. Int J Parasitol.
- Connected riparian reserves retain high avian phylogenetic diversity in Amazonian oil palm. Biological Conservation, 259, 109171.
- Detecting tropical selective logging with C-band SAR data may require a time series approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 259, 112411-112411.
- Fruit trees and herbaceous plants increase functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds in smallholder rubber plantations. Biological Conservation, 257, 109140.
- Coordinated intensification to reconcile the ‘zero hunger’ and ‘life on land’ Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Environmental Management, 284, 112032-112032.
- Replacing low-intensity cattle pasture with oil palm conserves dung beetle functional diversity when paired with forest protection. Journal of Environmental Management, 283, 112009-112009.
- Selective logging reduces body size in omnivorous and frugivorous tropical forest birds. Biological Conservation, 256, 109036-109036.
- Asking the Wrong Question in Explaining Tropical Diversity.. Trends Ecol Evol.
- Tropical land-use change alters trait-based community assembly rules for dung beetles and birds. Oecologia.
- Global hotspots of conversion risk from multiple crop expansion. Biological Conservation, 254, 108963-108963.
- Sparing land for secondary forest regeneration protects more tropical biodiversity than land sharing in cattle farming landscapes. Current Biology. View this article in WRRO
- Spatial replication and habitat context matters for assessments of tropical biodiversity using acoustic indices. Ecological Indicators, 119, 106717-106717.
- Diversity and host associations of Myrsidea chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) in the tropical rainforest of Malaysian Borneo. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 13, 231-247.
- Limited contributions of plant pathogens to density‐dependent seedling mortality of mast fruiting Bornean trees. Ecology and Evolution.
- Global wildlife trade across the tree of life (vol 369, eabd8164, 2020). SCIENCE, 369(6507), 1066-1066.
- Forest regeneration on European sheep pasture is an economically viable climate change mitigation strategy. Environmental Research Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Thermal tolerance and the importance of microhabitats for Andean frogs in the context of land use and climate change. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(11), 2451-2460.
- Reconciling Rubber Expansion with Biodiversity Conservation. Current Biology.
- Erratum for the Research Article: “Global
wildlife trade across the tree of life,” by B. R.
Scheffers, B. F. Oliveira, I. Lamb, D. P.
Edwards. Science, 369(6502), eabd8164-eabd8164.
- Landslides in the Andes: Forests can provide cost-effective landslide regulation services. Science of The Total Environment, 745, 141128-141128.
- Where are mines located in sub‐Saharan Africa and how have they expanded overtime?. Land Degradation & Development. View this article in WRRO
- Quaternary land bridges have not been universal conduits of gene flow. Molecular Ecology, 29(14), 2692-2706.
- Economically viable forest restoration in shifting cultivation landscapes. Environmental Research Letters, 15(6). View this article in WRRO
- Mass–abundance scaling in avian communities is maintained after tropical selective logging. Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), 2803-2812. View this article in WRRO
- Severe human pressures in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Science and Practice, 2(3).
- Fine‐scale barriers to connectivity across a fragmented South‐East Asian landscape in six songbird species. Evolutionary Applications, 13(5), 1026-1036.
- Rapid recovery of thermal environment after selective logging in the Amazon. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 278, 107637-107637.
- A distinctive new species of flowerpecker (Passeriformes: Dicaeidae) from Borneo. Zootaxa, 4686(4), 451-464. View this article in WRRO
- Conservation of Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene. Current Biology, 29(19), R1008-R1020.
- Global wildlife trade across the tree of life. Science, 366(6461), 71-76. View this article in WRRO
- Secondary forest fragments offer important carbon‐biodiversity co‐benefits. Global Change Biology. View this article in WRRO
- The impact of secondary forest regeneration on ground-dwelling ant communities in the Tropical Andes. Oecologia, 191(2), 475-482.
- Author Correction: Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests. Nature Climate Change, 9(10), 795-795.
- Frag
SAD
: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology, 100(12).
- Tropical forest subjected to intensive post-logging silviculture maintains functionally diverse dung beetle communities. Forest Ecology and Management, 444, 318-326.
- Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests. Nature Climate Change. View this article in WRRO
- ThermStats : an R package for quantifying surface thermal heterogeneity in assessments of microclimates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. View this article in WRRO
- Land rents drive oil palm expansion dynamics in Indonesia. Environmental Research Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Top 100 research questions for biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia. Biological Conservation, 234, 211-220.
- Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians. Current Biology, 29, 1557-1563. View this article in WRRO
- Author Correction: The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming. Nature Sustainability, 2(4), 339-341.
- Land‐sparing agriculture sustains higher levels of avian functional diversity than land sharing. Global Change Biology. View this article in WRRO
- A machine learning approach to map tropical selective logging. Remote Sensing of Environment, 221, 596-582. View this article in WRRO
- Actively restoring resilience in selectively logged tropical forests. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(1), 107-118.
- The neotropical reforestation hotspots : a biophysical and socioeconomic typology of contemporary forest expansion. Global Environmental Change, 54(Science 297 5583 2002), 148-159. View this article in WRRO
- Impacts of tropical forest disturbance on species vital rates. Conservation Biology, 33(1), 66-75.
- Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated. Nature Communications, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming. Nature Sustainability, 1(9), 477-485. View this article in WRRO
- Quantifying carbon stocks in shifting cultivation landscapes under divergent management scenarios relevant to REDD+. Ecological Applications, 28(6), 1581-1593. View this article in WRRO
- Impacts of selective logging management on butterflies in the Amazon. Biological Conservation, 225, 1-9.
- Physiological and immunological responses of birds and mammals to forest degradation: A meta-analysis. Biological Conservation, 224, 223-229.
- Debugging diversity - a pan-continental exploration of the potential of terrestrial blood-feeding leeches as a vertebrate monitoring tool. Molecular Ecology Resources, 18(6), 1282-1298.
- Ecosystem-based management of coral reefs under climate change. Ecology and Evolution, 8(12), 6354-6368. View this article in WRRO
- Protecting tropical forests from the rapid expansion of rubber using carbon payments. Nature Communications, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Tropical forests are thermally buffered despite intensive selective logging. Global Change Biology, 24(3), 1267-1278. View this article in WRRO
- Riparian reserves help protect forest bird communities in oil palm dominated landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55(6), 2744-2755.
- Contrasting impacts of land-use change on phylogenetic and functional diversity of tropical forest birds. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55(4), 1604-1614.
- Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics. Forest Policy and Economics, 85, 103-113.
- A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature. Ecology and Evolution, 7(19), 7897-7908. View this article in WRRO
- Study context shapes recommendations of land-sparing and sharing; a quantitative review. Global Food Security.
- Impacts of oil palm expansion on avian biodiversity in a Neotropical natural savanna. Biological Conservation, 213, 225-233.
- Reframing the evidence base for policy-relevance to increase impact: a case study on forest fragmentation in the oil palm sector. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(3), 731-736.
- The Effects of Restoring Logged Tropical Forests on Avian Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity.. Ecological Applications. View this article in WRRO
- Tropical secondary forest regeneration conserves high levels of avian phylogenetic diversity. Biological Conservation, 209, 432-439. View this article in WRRO
- Climate change mitigation : potential benefits and pitfalls of enhanced rock weathering in tropical agriculture.. Biology Letters, 13(4). View this article in WRRO
- Incorporating intraspecific trait variation into functional diversity: Impacts of selective logging on birds in Borneo. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
- Source-Sink Dynamics: a Neglected Problem for Landscape-Scale Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics. Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2(1), 51-60.
- Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences. Global Change Biology, 23(3), 977-982. View this article in WRRO
- Do fragment size and edge effects predict carbon stocks in trees and lianas in tropical forests?. Functional Ecology, 31(2), 542-552. View this article in WRRO
- Perverse Market Outcomes from Biodiversity Conservation Interventions. Conservation Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Extreme thermal heterogeneity in structurally complex tropical rain forests. Biotropica, 49(1), 35-44. View this article in WRRO
- Quantifying carbon and amphibian co-benefits from secondary forest regeneration in the Tropical Andes. Animal Conservation, 19(6), 548-560.
- Effects of landscape configuration and composition on phylogenetic diversity of trees in a highly fragmented tropical forest. Journal of Ecology. View this article in WRRO
- Thermally buffered microhabitats recovery in tropical secondary forests following land abandonment. Biological Conservation, 201, 385-395. View this article in WRRO
- Conservation: The rainforest's 'do not disturb' signs. Nature, 535(7610), 44-45.
- The impact of tropical forest logging and oil palm agriculture on the soil microbiome. Molecular Ecology, 25(10), 2244-2257.
- Life after logging in tropical forests of Borneo: A meta-analysis. Biological Conservation, 196, 182-188. View this article in WRRO
- Reducing the impacts of Neotropical oil palm development on functional diversity. Biological Conservation, 197, 139-145.
- Sparse Data Necessitate Explicit Treatment of Beta-Diversity: A Reply to Bush et al.. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(5), 338-339.
- Selective logging in tropical forests decreases the robustness of liana–tree interaction networks to the loss of host tree species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1826).
- Managing Neotropical oil palm expansion to retain phylogenetic diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53(1), 150-158.
- Preventing tropical mining disasters. Science, 350(6267), 1482-1482.
- Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest. Nature Communications, 6(1).
- Land-Sparing Agriculture Best Protects Avian Phylogenetic Diversity. Current Biology, 25(18), 2384-2391. View this article in WRRO
- Would protecting tropical forest fragments provide carbon and biodiversity cobenefits under REDD+?. Global Change Biology, 21(9), 3455-3468.
- Increasing Demand for Natural Rubber Necessitates a Robust Sustainability Initiative to Mitigate Impacts on Tropical Biodiversity. Conservation Letters, 8(4), 230-241. View this article in WRRO
- Increasing human dominance of tropical forests. Science, 349(6250), 827-832.
- Impacts of selective logging on insectivorous birds in Borneo: The importance of trophic position, body size and foraging height. Biological Conservation, 188, 82-88.
- An ant–plant by-product mutualism is robust to selective logging of rain forest and conversion to oil palm plantation. Oecologia, 178(2), 441-450.
- Effect of scale on trait predictors of species responses to agriculture. Conservation Biology, 29(2), 463-472.
- Minimizing the biodiversity impact of Neotropical oil palm development. Global Change Biology, 21(4), 1531-1540.
- How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation?. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31(1), 67-80.
- Retaining biodiversity in intensive farmland: epiphyte removal in oil palm plantations does not affect yield. Ecology and Evolution, 5(10), 1944-1954.
- Selective-logging and oil palm: multitaxon impacts, biodiversity indicators, and trade-offs for conservation planning. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, 24(8), 2029-2049.
- Microhabitats in the tropics buffer temperature in a globally coherent manner. Biology Letters, 10(12), 20140819-20140819.
- Improved timber harvest techniques maintain biodiversity in tropical forests. CURRENT BIOLOGY, 24(23), R1119-R1120.
- Tropical crops: Cautious optimism--Response. Science, 346(6212), 928-928.
- Erratum: Corrigendum: A global strategy for road building. Nature, 514(7521), 262-262.
- A double-edged sword for tropical forests. Science, 346(6205), 38-40.
- A global strategy for road building. Nature, 513(7517), 229-232.
- Optimizing carbon storage and biodiversity protection in tropical agricultural landscapes. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 20(7), 2162-2172.
- Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism. Nature Climate Change, 4(6), 503-507.
- Saving logged tropical forests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12, 147-147.
- Sustainable Management in Crop Monocultures: The Impact of Retaining Forest on Oil Palm Yield. PLOS ONE, 9(3). View this article in WRRO
- Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 102(2), 475-485.
- Microhabitats reduce animal's exposure to climate extremes.. Glob Chang Biol, 20(2), 495-503.
- Mining and the African Environment. CONSERVATION LETTERS, 7(3), 302-311.
- EDITOR'S CHOICE: Surrounding habitats mediate the trade-off between land-sharing and land-sparing agriculture in the tropics. Journal of Applied Ecology, 51(5), 1337-1346.
- Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 29(9), 511-520.
- Land-sharing versus land-sparing logging: reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 20(1), 183-191.
- Does logging and forest conversion to oil palm agriculture alter functional diversity in a biodiversity hotspot?. Animal Conservation. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of Logging and Forest Conversion to Oil Palm Plantations on Soil Bacterial Communities in Borneo. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79(23), 7290-7297.
- Navjot's nightmare revisited: Logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28(9), 531-540.
- Impacts of Intensive Logging on the Trophic Organisation of Ant Communities in a Biodiversity Hotspot. PLoS ONE, 8(4).
- Impacts of logging and conversion of rainforest to oil palm on the functional diversity of birds in Sundaland. Ibis, 155(2), 313-326.
- Biodiversity despite selective logging. Science, 339(6120), 646-647.
- Trait-dependent declines of species following conversion of rain forest to oil palm plantations. Biodiversity and Conservation, 22(1), 253-268.
- Logging and conservation: Economic impacts of the stocking rates and prices of commercial timber species. Forest Policy and Economics.
- Trophic Flexibility and the Persistence of Understory Birds in Intensively Logged Rainforest. Conservation Biology.
- Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding. Ecology Letters.
- Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. Nature, 489(7415), 290-293.
- Impacts of logging and rehabilitation on invertebrate communities in tropical rainforests of northern Borneo. Journal of Insect Conservation, 16(4), 591-599.
- Public goods, public services and by-product mutualism in an ant-fern symbiosis. Oikos, 121(8), 1279-1286.
- Bar-winged Wren Babbler Spelaeornis troglodytoides: A first record for Vietnam, with speculation for 17 further avifaunal additions. Forktail(28), 136-138.
- Indonesia's REDD+ pact: Saving imperilled forests or business as usual?. Biological Conservation, 151(1), 41-44.
- Green labelling, sustainability and the expansion of tropical agriculture: Critical issues for certification schemes. Biological Conservation, 151(1), 60-64.
- Does Indonesia's REDD+ moratorium on new concessions spare imminently threatened forests?. Conservation Letters, 5(3), 222-231.
- Assessing trophic position from nitrogen isotope ratios: Effective calibration against spatially varying baselines. Naturwissenschaften, 99(4), 275-283.
- Reduced-impact logging and biodiversity conservation: A case study from Borneo. Ecological Applications, 22(2), 561-571.
- An accessible site for Vietnam’s Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush Garrulax konkakinhensis. BirdingASIA, 17, 104-105.
- High conservation value or high confusion value? Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the tropics. Conservation Letters, 5(1), 20-27.
- Cost-effective conservation: Calculating biodiversity and logging trade-offs in Southeast Asia. Conservation Letters, 4(6), 443-450.
- Underestimating the costs of conservation in Southeast Asia. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 9(10), 544-545.
- The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 366(1582), 3256-3264.
- Carbon emissions: Loophole in forest plan for Indonesia. Nature, 477(7362), 33.
- The search for unknown biodiversity.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 108(32), 12971-12972.
- The high costs of conserving Southeast Asia's lowland rainforests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 9(6), 329-334.
- Green labelling being misused. NATURE, 475(7355), 174-174.
- Rehabilitation of Logged Rain Forests: Avifaunal Composition, Habitat Structure, and Implications for Biodiversity-Friendly REDD+. BIOTROPICA, 43(4), 504-511.
- Degraded lands worth protecting: the biological importance of Southeast Asia's repeatedly logged forests. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 278(1702), 82-90.
- The Symbiotic Habit. Animal Behaviour, 81(1), 357-358.
- Protecting degraded rainforests: Enhancement of forest carbon stocks under REDD+. Conservation Letters, 3(5), 313-316.
- Wildlife-friendly oil palm plantations fail to protect biodiversity effectively. CONSERVATION LETTERS, 3(4), 236-242.
- The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, 19(4), 985-997.
- Predicting the effect of climate change on aggregation behaviour in four species of terrestrial isopods. Behaviour, 147(2), 151-164.
- Large estragole fluxes from oil palms in Borneo. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, 10(9), 4343-4358.
- Can the failure to punish promote cheating in mutualism?. OIKOS, 119(1), 45-52.
- The evolution of intermediate castration virulence and ant coexistence in a spatially structured environment. Ecology Letters, 12(12), 1306-1316.
- The value of rehabilitating logged rainforest for birds.. Conserv Biol, 23(6), 1628-1633.
- A Plant Needs Ants like a Dog Needs Fleas: Myrmelachista schumanni Ants Gall Many Tree Species to Create Housing. AMERICAN NATURALIST, 174(5), 734-740.
- The roles of tolerance in the evolution, maintenance and breakdown of mutualism. NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, 96(10), 1137-1145.
- ‘Spectacled flowerpecker’: a species new to science discovered in Borneo?. BirdingASIA, 12, 38-41.
- Tolerating castration by hiding flowers in plain sight. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 63(1), 95-102.
- Protection in an ant - plant mutualism: an adaptation or a sensory trap?. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 74, 377-385.
- The roles of sensory traps in the origin, maintenance, and breakdown of mutualism. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61(9), 1321-1327.
- Assembling a mutualism: Ant symbionts locate their host plants by detecting volatile chemicals. Insectes Sociaux, 53(2), 172-176.
- Selection for protection in an ant-plant mutualism: Host sanctions, host modularity, and the principal-agent game. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1586), 595-602.
- Experimental demonstration of species coexistence enabled by dispersal limitation. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73(6), 1102-1114.
- Impacts of pastures and forestry plantations on herpetofauna: a global meta‐analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology.
- What level of native beetle diversity can be supported by forestry plantations? A global synthesis. Insect Conservation and Diversity.
- Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating
T
riad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management. Biological Reviews.
- Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
- Mapping pervasive selective logging in the south-west Brazilian Amazon 2000–2019. Environmental Research Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Impacts of selective logging on the oxidative status of tropical understorey birds. Journal of Animal Ecology.
- Glucocorticoids link forest type to local abundance in tropical birds. Functional Ecology.
- Impacts of selective logging on avian phylogenetic and functional diversity in the Amazon. Animal Conservation.
- The Impact of Selective-Logging and Forest Clearance for Oil Palm on Fungal Communities in Borneo. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e111525-e111525. View this article in WRRO
- Large estragole fluxes from oil palms in Borneo. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 10(1), 1517-1557.
- Secondary tropical forests recover dung beetle functional diversity and trait composition. Animal Conservation. View this article in WRRO
- The effects of tropical secondary forest regeneration on avian phylogenetic diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. View this article in WRRO
- Rubber agroforestry in Thailand provides some biodiversity benefits without reducing yields. Journal of Applied Ecology, 1-14. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Protecting environmental and socio-economic values of selectively logged tropical forests in the Anthropocene, Advances in Ecological Research (pp. 1-52). Elsevier
- SDG 15: Life on land-The central role of forests in sustainable development, Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People (pp. 482-509).
- Ecological effects of logging and approaches to mitigating impacts, Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology (pp. 422-435).
Datasets
- Data for paper: "Mass-abundance scaling in avian communities is maintained after tropical selective logging".
- Data for the paper: "The Effects of Restoring Logged Tropical Forests on Avian Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity".
Preprints
- Logging alters tropical forest structure, while conversion reduces biodiversity and functioning, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Biogeographic multi-species occupancy models for large-scale survey data, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Detecting tropical selective logging with SAR data requires a time series approach, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes. Ecology. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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Post-doctoral Researchers
- Simon Mills - Impacts of tropical land-use change in montane systems
- Oscar Morton - Global wildlife trade under CITES
- Edicson Parra - Impacts of land-use change on community dynamics in orchids
PhD Students
- Abdulkareem Ahmed - Expansion and conservation implications of mining in Africa (Nigeria)
- Joergen Sand Saeboe - Optimising carbon and biodiversity co-benefits across spatial scales (Norway, co-supervised with T. Haugaasen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
- Maria Wang - Minimizing ecological and social externalities in rubber expansion (Grantham Centre for Sustainable Future)
- Chris Bousfield - Impact of tropical selective logging on avian feeding interactions (NERC)
- Edgar Cifuentes - Neotropical microclimates: understanding the synergistic impacts of climate and land-use change on biodiversity in tropical forests (Colciencias-Colombia, co-supervised with D. Coomes, University of Cambridge)
- Joceleye Sze - Effectiveness of Indigenous Lands in reducing deforestation and biodiversity loss
- Gianluca Cerullo - Evaluating the values, costs, and trade-offs of diverse forest restoration types (co-supervised with A. Balmford, University of Cambridge) Dharma Sapkota Impacts of tropical fire on biodiversity (co-supervised with K. Evans)
- Rob Davies - Landscape degradation and restoration in sub-Saharan Africa
- Ieuan Lamb - Impacts of mining on biodiversity (Hossein Farms scholarship)
- Luis Sanchez Soto - Socio-cultural underpinnings of restoration decision-making (co-supervised with D. Williams, University of Leeds)
- Giovanny Perez - Impacts of land-use change across spatial scales (Colfuturo-Colombia)
- Tom Lansley - Effectiveness of Important Bird and Biodiversity areas for conserving the world's birds (co-supervised with G. Thomas, S. Butchart, O. Crowe)
- Halvina Grasela Saiya - Impacts of land-use change on Wallacean avian diversity (Indonesia)
MRes/MBiolSci Students
- Zachary Chu - Impacts of land-use change on functional diversity across elevations
- Dominic Meeks - Impacts of wildlife trade across functional traits
- Shriya Uday - Impacts of wildlife trade on avian colour over time