SAFE Project

JOB ALERT: Research Associate in Ecosystem Modelling - we are looking for someone with experience in plant modelling to join our team to create a virtual ecosystem - based at Silwood Park, Imperial College, UK, closing date end of March imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

New Publication - SE Asian wild pig population changes during African Swine Fever outbreak safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #AfricanSwineFever #BeardedPig #Borneo

JOB VACANCY - We are looking for a Software Developer to join our Virtual Ecosystem team at Silwood Park - closing date 15th Aug - imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

JOB VACANCIES on the Virtual Ecosystem Project - Ecologist or data scientist to analyse a tropical rainforest ecosystem - 4 vacancies - job description: safeproject.net/marketplace/vi…

SAFE OUTPUT - Multi-stemmed trees survive better and grow more in logged forests in Borneo safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #mutlistem #loggedforest

SAFE OUTPUT: LiDAR used to map growth rates of individual oil palms - during drought trees nearer forest edges and young trees grew better safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #oilpalm #LiDAR

Animal density estimates possible just using camera-trap data safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #cameratrap #Borneo

Implications for Water Management under Climate Change - lessons from a land-use change gradient from pristine forest to oil palm in Borneo #baseflow safeproject.net/outputs/view_o…

NEW OUTPUT: Well planned set-asides in oil palm plantations can increase biodiversity without reducing net cultivation area safeproject.net/outputs/view_o… #oilpalm

SAFE paper finds: riparian buffers in oil palm landscapes - the bigger the better to mitigate biodiversity decline, but still lack forest dependent-species ow.ly/qhgK50MB4Gn

On the topic of eddy covariance… here is the beautiful view from the top of the @SAFE_Project flux tower

A huge thank you to the tireless, dedicated field crews of @SAFE_Project, @SEARRP and Lambir, and other staff who contributed to the logistics! I estimate the paper incorporates ~35 person years of fieldwork.

New paper finds logged tropical forests are carbon sources for at least 10 years after logging events - not carbon sinks! @SEARRP @Carbon safeproject.net/outputs/view_o…

Check out these papers that include data from the SAFE Project - Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change (ow.ly/V9TI50KAZAA) and Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (ow.ly/pVUS50KAZAF)

The duet of a pair of Northern gray gibbons may contain information about pair identity - ow.ly/Nc0250KAYIL #northerngraygibbon #Borneo

The soil properties in the mounds of social insects vary between taxa and when humans have altered the environment - ow.ly/8Qx950Ks6Jm #termites #Borneo #soil

You are 1.5 times more likely to encounter a potential Dengue Fever carrying mosquito in Oil Palm Plantations than in the rainforest - ow.ly/TowY50Ks0O8 #Dengue

Logging practices have a reduced impact on ecosystem function in tropical forests - check out Junia Anilik's Masters thesis - looking at soil features, bacteria and arthropods at SAFE ow.ly/M7BB50Jhz5a

Good news! It is now possible to acquire occupancy data for birds and herpetofauna in tropical forests at low costs using acoustic recorders! ow.ly/7PYn50IeP6p #occupancy #ecology #bioacoustics