A5037237843- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant and animal studies
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Forest Management and Policy
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
University of Cambridge
2020-2024
Conservation Leadership Programme
2023-2024
King's College Hospital
2023
University of Oxford
2012-2016
Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary ecological research. Even though most angiosperm families well investigated from phylogenetic point of view, there far less possibilities to carry out large-scale meta-analyses at order level or higher. Here, we reconstructed dated phylogeny including nearly 1/8th all species, based on two plastid barcoding genes, matK (incl. trnK) rbcL. Novel sequences were generated several while the rest data mined GenBank. The resulting...
Agriculture is expanding rapidly across the tropics. While cultivation can boost socioeconomic conditions and food security, it also threatens native ecosystems. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), which grown pantropically, most productive vegetable oil crop worldwide. The impacts of have been studied extensively in Southeast Asia - to a lesser extent Latin America but, comparison, very little known about its Africa: palm's range, where rapidly. In this paper, we introduce large-scale research...
Abstract Biodiversity net gain is a policy focus worldwide, acknowledging ongoing losses of biodiversity to development, and commitment offsetting any residual impacts on elsewhere. At least 37 countries have mandatory policies, further 64 enable voluntary offsets. Offsets rely credible evidence‐based methods quantify gains. Following the introduction United Kingdom's Environment Act in November 2021, all new developments requiring planning permission England must demonstrate at 10% from...
Abstract The biodiversity and climate crises are critical challenges of this century. Wildflower meadows in urban areas could provide important nature‐based solutions, addressing the jointly benefitting society process. King's College Cambridge (England, UK) established a wildflower meadow over portion its iconic Back Lawn 2019, replacing fine lawn first laid 1772. We used surveys, Wilcoxon signed rank ANOVA models to compare species richness, abundance composition plants, spiders, bugs,...
Abstract Aim Existing phytogeographical frameworks for tropical Africa lack either spatial completeness, unit definitions smaller than the regional scale or a quantitative approach. We investigate whether physical environmental variables can be used to interpolate floristically defined vegetation units, presenting an interpolated, hierarchical, framework Africa, which is compared previously regions. Location Tropical mainland 24°N 24°S. Taxon 31,046 vascular plant species and infraspecific...
Societal Impact Statement Oil palm is native to the west African forest, where industrial production expanding. We assessed differences in plant biodiversity, vegetation structure and provisioning services across 54 community agriculture oil plots Sinoe County, Liberia. Traditional cultivation systems have lower ecological impacts terms of species richness, composition, canopy height structural complexity compared with production, though yields per hectare are likely be lower. can inspire...
Centres of endemism have been much studied by biogeographers, ecologists, and evolutionary theorists, are considered conservation priorities. It is therefore important to understand the ecological traits restricted range taxa, landscape-scale drivers high endemism. Here, we investigate correlates floristic within two west Africa’s forest biodiversity hotspots at local scale. We assembled distribution data for 1,042 vascular plant taxa from 114 sample locations reserves south Ghana, 1,735 454...
Abstract We designed 3 image‐based field guides to tropical forest plant species in Ghana, Grenada, and Cameroon tested them with 1095 local residents 20 botanists the United Kingdom. compared users’ identification accuracy different image formats, including drawings, specimen photos, living paintings. their only prior knowledge of flora. asked respondents score each format for usability, beauty, how much they would pay it. Prior names was generally low (<22%). With a few exceptions, did...
Abstract At best, conservation decisions can only be made using the data available at time. For plants and especially in tropics, natural history collections remain best baseline information upon which to base assessments, spite of well‐documented limitations their taxonomic, geographic, temporal coverage. We explore extent changes plant biological record over 20 years have changed our conception importance 931 taxa, 114 vegetation samples, recorded forest reserves southwest Ghana...
Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary ecological research. Even though most angiosperm families well investigated from phylogenetic point of view, there far less possibilities to carry out large-scale meta-analyses at order level or higher. Here, we reconstructed dated phylogeny including nearly 1/8th all species, based on two plastid barcoding genes, matK (incl. trnK) rbcL. Novel sequences were generated several while the rest data mined GenBank. The resulting...