Hannah Rigney
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Hannah Rigney
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PhD student @ University of Queensland 🌞
biodiversity & conservation in cocoa agroforestry landscapes 🇬🇭
nature lover & plant enthusiast 🌳🌳🌳
Reposted by Hannah Rigney
"It is essential that we recognise the ecological consequences of rapid forest loss in Southeast Asia due to the production of palm oil, a product widely consumed in the Western world," UKCEH co-author Dr Samuel Robinson said.

Full paper via www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure
The impacts of degradation and deforestation on tropical forests are poorly understood, particularly at landscape scales. We present an extensive ecosystem analysis of the impacts of logging and conve...
www.science.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Reposted by Hannah Rigney
🔥 in Ecology Letters 🔥
#Traits describing hydraulic strategies and deciduousness explain the occurrence trends of almost 300 #rainforest #tree species across a steep rainfall gradient in Australia. #FunctionalTraits
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities
We surveyed rainforest tree communities across the Australian subtropics (spanning 600 to 2500 mm rainfall year−1) and measured functional traits on 285 (91%) of all recorded species. Hydraulic strat....
dx.doi.org
December 3, 2024 at 9:17 AM