A5043466396- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Agricultural and Environmental Management
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
University of Cambridge
2018-2022
University of Edinburgh
2020-2022
Conservation Leadership Programme
2018-2019
University of Reading
2003
Aston University
2003
Conversion of tropical forest to agriculture results in reduced habitat heterogeneity, and associated declines biodiversity ecosystem functions. Management strategies increase agricultural landscapes have therefore often focused on increasing complexity; however, the large-scale, long-term ecological experiments that are needed test effects these rare systems. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)—one most widespread important crops—offers substantial potential for developing wildlife-friendly...
Background. This study examined whether alcohol abuse patients are characterized either by enhanced schematic processing of related cues or an attentional bias towards the cues. Method. Abstinent abusers ( N =25) and non-clinical control participants =24) performed a dual task paradigm in which they had to make odd/even decision centrally presented number while performing peripherally lexical task. Stimuli on comprised words, neutral words non-words. In addition, completed incidental recall...
Abstract Palm oil is the most traded vegetable worldwide. Production concentrated in Southeast Asia, where established palm plantations dominate landscape many regions. Although levels of biodiversity are much lower than forest, mature can support a wide range generalist species. However, these species may be threatened, as large areas plantation have already been, or will soon be, replanted they near end their productive life (20–30 years). Replanting changes vegetation complexity and...
Abstract Oil palm is a major habitat in the tropics. It highly productive and contributes substantially to economies of producing countries, but its expansion has caused widespread deforestation, with negative consequences for biodiversity. Such biodiversity losses may have substantial impacts on ecosystem functions within oil resilience changing rainfall patterns, yield. However, although direct effects water deficit yield been studied, little work investigated processes plantations or...
Expansion of oil palm has caused widespread declines in biodiversity and changes ecosystem functioning across the tropics. A major driver these is loss habitat heterogeneity as forests are converted into plantations. Therefore, one strategy to help support increase heterogeneity, for instance, by retaining forested buffers around rivers when new plantations established, or maintaining made mature palms ("mature buffers") old replanted. While known benefit systems, impacts less certain. In...