Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics

Output - Publications

Publications LCNR associated Ecology
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Nature (2021)

Metabolic approach to forest ecosystem health

Do metabolic ecology approaches offer a useful new approach to assessing ecosystem health and nature recovery? Our research uses areas of old growth and selectively logged forest to assess this approach.

Related Research Themes

Ecology

Testing the effectiveness of different ecological approaches for nature recovery to support biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem services such as climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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Tropical forest research

The rainforests of Southeast Asia are rapidly disappearing. And with the trees goes the service they provide. A forest is a water reservoir, it acts against drought and it is a source and a sink for carbon. That's why ecologists came onto the scene.