Less than 10% of the reforestation target for Indonesia’s new capital city Nusantara, has been achieved. The main obstacles include a preference for nonnative tree species, lack of planning and poor management. news.mongabay.com/2024/02/refore…

Meet a newly described Macadamia relative from Sulawesi: the remarkably gorgeous (grey leaves! ginger hairs! pollen presenters!): Lasjia griseifolia #Proteaceae photographed in Sulawesi by Fabian Brambach Kew Bulletin BRIN Indonesia Kew Science #taxonomy

My 3rd PhD chapter in Ecology Letters shows crop and landscape heterogeneity positively impact farmland biodiversity on a global scale; doi.org/10.1111/ele.14… 🙏Dr Eleanor Slade Ben Woodcock Clelia Sirami @[email protected] Teja Tscharntke Eben Goodale Emily Martin Carlos Martínez Núñez Emilio Pagani-Núñez Asian School Of The Environment

Great to see one of my first research projects to finally find a home 6 years after we collected data. Together with Fabian Brambach, Holger Kreft Bernhard Brümmer and others we look at the environmental performance of smallholder palm oil production and biodiversity conservation in Indonesia

📢 publication alert New PNASNews paper in Agricultural Sciences led by Arne Wenzel on "Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations" Check it out: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Uni Göttingen Fakultät der Agrarwissenschaften | Uni Göttingen

Spatial patterns of forest fires in Lore Lindu NP, Central Sulawesi and their relationship with climate and land use. Important study from Fadjri Maarif and Cesar Mappatoba from TN LORE LINDU journal.biotrop.org/index.php/biot…

A PNAS Special Feature gathers recent research on biodiversity and climate change in Indonesia. The collection highlights accomplishments in biodiversity as well as the need for greater support and funding for scientific research in Indonesia. In PNAS: ow.ly/Cigj50RkKO0

NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬 This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy #DNADay! 🧬 This is one of my favourite pieces I made for Scientific American about genome sizes across select species. Was really fun to make this! #science #DNA #genome #infographic #sciart #genomics #genetics #genes

One Year in the Forest: The fieldwork experience of Mary Mulligan and her team in Lore Lindu National Park. Video premiere on YouTube now: youtu.be/kdzB2BBMiFI?si… Uni Göttingen TN LORE LINDU IPB

Jalan hantu: riset kami tunjukkan luasnya jalan ilegal yang membabat hutan Indonesia theconversation.com/jalan-hantu-ri… via The Conversation Indonesia

New open access publication! Kew's Liam Trethowan and collaborators in Indonesia have considered how local tree diversity is shaped by: 🌴 Island size 🌳 Climate 🌲 Geology (including earthquake impacts) Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0…

🔴 #RSFIndex | RSF unveils the 2024 World Press Freedom Index 1: Norway🇳🇴 2: Denmark🇩🇰 3: Sweden🇸🇪 10: Germany🇩🇪 21: France🇫🇷 55: United States🇺🇸 101: Israel🇮🇱 162: Russia🇷🇺 172: China🇨🇳 178: Afghanistan🇦🇫 179: Syria🇸🇾 180: Eritrea🇪🇷 rsf.org/en/index

The best way to accurately predict where deforestation will occur? By identifying 'Ghost Roads'. 200 people spent 7,000 hours identifying them. Here's what you need to know about it:

This is how we collect #plants to document #biodiversity around the #cenotes in #Yucatan #Mexico. Long sleeves, trousers & bandana protect you against insects and the scorching sun, but won't help you to cool down when it's 43°C! Kew Science Kew Americas #accelerated #taxonomy

Deforestation news from Papua keeps on coming. Extremely worrying. It seems that a switch has been flipped…

In 2019, we set 10 camera traps from 65-90m in the crown of the world's tallest tropical tree, with no real idea whether they'd get anything at all They did 🤩 ... 🧵 #Borneo #RainforestGiants

Please RT! Come work with us BioGeo Göttingen! We are seeking for a Biodiversity informatician (permanent senior scientist position) deadline for applications: 07.08.2024 Full job ad here: uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html…

I am proud of my former master's student, Tatsuro Kikuchi, who led this great paper on long-term recovery of structural complexity in oil palm landscapes. Out in Forest Ecology & Management: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #EFForTSBEE BioGeo Göttingen EFForTS - CRC 990 Clara Zemp Fabian Brambach

Using Diversity Turn in Land Use Science data from NE #Madagascar 🇲🇬, our synthesis reveals positive effects of complexly structured / diverse tree stands & landscape-scale forest cover on multidiversity and multifunctionality. Endemic spp profit the most! 🌳🐦🐜🌿 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…