TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION​ ​​
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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.
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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

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 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.

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 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

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 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


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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.

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  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
 


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  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.

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   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.
 


Some pictures from the field: Identifying trees and birds.....
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