It is impossible to be a top-line manager & administrator and mentor and researcher & writer & outreach officer & IT expert and online instructor & pedagogical innovator & recruiter and teacher... & look after your own wellbeing. No-one can do that. Yet that’s what is often asked

“Many ecological interaction studies are based on intentional human observation of potential interactions. Collating suitable datasets to build networks for sufficient analyses requires extensive observations, making data collection expensive incredibly time & labour intensive.”

|| NEW RESEARCH || Bornean tropical forests recovering from logging at risk of regeneration failure 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… David Bartholomew @CanopyRobin David Burslem Daniel Chapman Lindsay Banin Daisy Dent University of Exeter Umeå University Botanic Gardens Conservation International Natural Environment Research Council

We’re calling for applications for the Yang Chang Man Research Fellowship in Biodiversity and the Leo Tan Research Fellowship in Biodiversity, designed to empower early career researchers of Southeast Asia’s biodiversity. 📷: lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/research-fello…

Our new paper led by Chiew Li Yuen shows that #invertebrate mediated #ecosystem processes in #tropical #forests are resilient to disturbance across a land use gradient in #Sabah Malaysian Borneo. #TEELab Asian School Of The Environment NTU College of Science David Burslem @BrodieEcology SEARRP Institute for Tropical Biology & Conservation, UMS

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Can urban city dwellers create conducive environments for our #insects to thrive? Along with her colleagues in the #tropicalecology and #entomology #teelab #PhD candidate Xin Rui shares her insights through their publication on Frontiers #biodiversity #invertebrates

"Instead of measuring the number of papers and the impact factor of the journals in which they are published, scientists should be judged on the basis of data sharing, transparency, reproducibility, collaboration, mentorship, and communication." 1/3

I am proud to be an Associate Editor for Biotropica & play a small part in promoting #tropical #ecology & #naturalhistory.An important commentary by our Editor in Chief Dr. Jennifer Powers on the critical importance of natural history in today's world & submit your #field notes to us!

Super excited to be at the Frugivores & Seed Dispersal Symposium again, this year at Ilheus, Brazil, to share about my ongoing research on plant-avian frugivore interaction networks in Singapore! #FSD2024 NUS CNCS Lian Pin Koh NUS Research National Parks Board Chong Kwek Yan

Heads up! Our 2026 Special Issue is Focused on Urban Ecology in the Tropics. Tropical cities as windows into the ecosystems of our present and future - Bonebrake - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Congratulations Andre Martinez for publishing the first chapter of your thesis in Oikos. In this paper we explore two methods to estimate missing plant-frugivore interactions and show how those interactions can change network structure. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🔬How can #Biodiversity #CitizenScience double as a tool for biodiversity AND human health & wellbeing? Our new paper explores how thoughtfully designed initiatives can unlock these benefits for participants🌍🧠frontiersin.org/journals/envir…

Identifying thresholds for regeneration and #restoration of logged #tropical #forests. New paper in nature led by Rob Ewers Imperial College London with data from SAFE Project including #dungbeetle data from #TEELab Asian School Of The Environment teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/new-…

[New paper] 🚨 The Critically Endangered Sunda pangolin faces threats in Singapore from habitat loss and road traffic. We georeferenced 482 pangolin sightings, rescues, and roadkill incidents from 1996–2021, revealing a rise in all three categories. doi.org/10.1017/S00306…

We must train specialists in botany and zoology — or risk more devastating extinctions, says Dasheng Liu, general secretary of the Ecological Society of Shandong in Jinan, China go.nature.com/3zwtVuw

For many species we have virtually no funding for research, handicapping our ability to target conservation actions effectively.Sadly when we explore how funds are allocated -megafauna almost always get the lions share, leaving most taxa neglected pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

My 4th PhD chapter is out! Flower-rich, less-cut road verges support urban butterflies🦋 authors.elsevier.com/a/1khHFcUG5aKVi teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/flow… doi.org/10.1016/j.land… 🙏Dr Eleanor Slade @eleslade.bsky.social Ben Woodcock Eben Goodale Carlos Martínez Núñez Anuj jain Emilio Pagani-Núñez JaniceSHLee Dr Friederike Gebert Asian School Of The Environment

New online! Drivers and solutions to Southeast Asia’s biodiversity crisis bit.ly/4o4alKA

The Natural Capital Singapore's paper combining all 4 teams' valuations of Singapore's urban green & blue spaces is out! We hope that these can inform how we can design the City in Nature to optimise wellbeing, not just for the people, but the nature around us. Read it at doi.org/10.1016/j.ecos…