We work in tropical forest landscapes to understand complex problems in coupled natural and human systems, including biodiversity loss, climate change, and supporting human livelihoods. With collaborators, students and local communities we aim to develop sustainable solutions to these challenges.
We are based at ETH Zürich, Switzerland and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama and we work in tropical forest landscapes in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Panama.
Daisy will spend the next 18-months working with colleagues at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow! Excited to get started on this project.
1 February 2021
PhD student Robin Hayward just published the first chapter from his PhD research in Forest Ecology and Management, investigating forest recovery post-logging in Malaysian Borneo. Congratulations Robin! : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112721001250
9 April 2020
Our new paper led by Nadja Rüger is just out in Science! We investigate how demographic trade-offs shape tropical forest dynamics and succession: science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6487/165
1 May 2018
New OA paper in Ecology & Evolution with PhD student Tom Bradfer- Lawrence and research assistant Nick Gardner - Canopy bird assemblages are less influenced by habitat age and isolation than understory bird assemblages in Neotropical secondary forest.
28 March 2018
Congratulations to Robin, who was just awarded an Ashton Award for Student Research to support his PhD field work in Sabah, Malaysia
15 July 2017
Congratulations Izzy! The first PhD student from Dent Lab submitted her thesis last month: Legacies of tropical forest fragmentation and regeneration for biodiversity and carbon storage. Presenting her work on isolated tree and liana communities in the `Balbina Mega-Dam, Brazil (pictured), and soil carbon over secondary forest succession in Panama.
10 July 2017
Just found out that we were awarded a Carnegie Research Incentive Grant for our project: Regenerating tropical forests and their potential for carbon storage.