DAISY DENT - RESEARCH GROUP
Our research focuses on the effects of changing land-use patterns on tropical forest diversity and ecosystem function. Specifically, we investigate how deforestation and forest fragmentation modify the composition of tropical tree and bird communities, and impacts on ecosystem functioning. Our fieldwork focuses on two long-term study sites in Panama and Malaysia.
1 May 2021
Delighted to see this opinion piece out online in TREE with Sergio Estrada Villegas. Niche differentiation and dispersal limitation predict tropical forest succession:
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(21)00099-9
1 April 2021
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Just found out that we were awarded a Carnegie Research Incentive
Grant for our project: Regenerating tropical forests and their potential for
carbon storage.
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Some pictures from the field: Identifying trees and birds.....
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