Should we intensify or spread the spatial footprint of #timber extraction in the #Amazon? This paper led by Chris Bousfield (based on >660k trees across 52k ha at 7 #logging concessions) elucidates the land use revenues from these competing strategies doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… UEA School of Environmental Sciences

Does #timberextraction affect #tree beta-diversity in tropical forests? Paper led by Chris Bousfield based on >155,000 indiv-mapped trees ≥35cm DBH (377 spp) in >3,100 ha of Amazonian forest in a wide (0 - 40 m3/ha) gradient of logging intensity doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… UEA Research

✨New paper✨How should we design logging operations in tropical rainforests to reduce biodiversity loss? We explore this in a logging concession in the Brazilian Amazon – and the answers aren’t intuitive...(1/19) 📷PauloBrando sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨New paper🚨 Global hotspots of traded phylogenetic and functional diversity, out today. A great collaborative effort with Liam Hughes @MikeMassam Brett Scheffers nature 1/n nature.com/articles/s4158…

Satellite data shows wildfires are destroying large areas of the world's timber-producing forests. 🪵 As David Lindenmayer (ANU Media) + colleagues write, these fires become more destructive with each passing year, threatening supplies of wood and paper. theconversation.com/fire-is-consum…

Article: Wildfires have caused widespread and increasingly severe losses within timber-producing forests in recent decades Chris Bousfield nature.com/articles/s4156…

Research by Chris Bousfield and David Edwards in Department of Plant Sciences, with David Lindenmayer at ANU Fenner School, quantifies for the first time the severe destruction that fire causes to timber-producing forests globally. Read here 👇 plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/fire-cons…

🚨🚨New paper! 🚨🚨Chris Bousfield and I looked at a potentially emerging and future threat to global timber production - competition with agriculture as climate changes shifts the suitability of land for food production NatureClimate 1/n nature.com/articles/s4155…

Global timber supply threatened as climate change pushes cropland northwards. New study by researchers at Department of Plant Sciences finds climate change will put production of these two vital resources into direct competition. 👉tinyurl.com/3xezr2pj

Just a few of the many highlights from the Dept of Zoology tropical ecology field course in Danum Valley, Borneo! Taught alongside Insect Ecology Group Lynn Dicks Matt Wilkinson Becky Heath Chris Bousfield. More photos here: flickr.com/photos/1317083…