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Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa
(Ecology and Society, 2022)
Mountain environments in East Africa experience more rapid increases in temperature than lower elevations, which, together with changing rainfall patterns, often negatively affect coffee production. However, little is known ...
Consistent diel activity patterns of forest mammals among tropical regions
(Nature communications, 2022)
An animal’s daily use of time (their “diel activity”) reflects their adaptations, requirements, and interactions, yet we know little about the underlying processes governing diel activity within and among communities. Here ...
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
(Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022-08)
The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centuries to explain ...
On the scaling of activity in tropical forest mammals
(Oikos, 2020)
Activity range - the amount of time spent active per day - is a fundamental aspect contributing to the optimization process by which animals achieve energetic balance. Based on their size and the nature of their diet, ...
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
(Nature, 2020-03-04)
Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions1–3. Climate-driven ...
High above ground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests
(Nature, 2021-08-25)
Tropical forests store 40–50 per cent of terrestrial vegetation carbon1. However, spatial variations in aboveground live tree biomass carbon (AGC) stocks remain poorly understood, in particular in tropical montane forests2. ...
Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots
(Biological Conservation, 2020)
Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have ...
The number of tree species on Earth
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022-01-31)
One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth. However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties connected to the species concept definition, ...
Consistent daily activity patterns across tropical forest mammal communities
(Research square, 2022)
Most animals follow distinct daily activity patterns reflecting their adaptations1, requirements, and
Interactions 2-4. Specific communities provide specific opportunities and constraints to their members that further ...
The Impact of Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust and Uganda Wildlife Authority’s Funded Community Livelihood Projects in the Mitigation of Illegal Activities within Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2021)
Illegal resource access is a pressing biodiversity conservation and protected area management challenge. At Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi) in south western Uganda, poaching and unauthorised access to forest ...