
Research
Our team has academic backgrounds in forest conservation. Here you'll find our peer-reviewed publications spanning forest ecology, carbon science, and geospatial analysis.
Featured Publications
Estimating canopy height in tropical forests: Integrating airborne LiDAR and multi-spectral optical data with machine learning
Novel methods for tropical forest canopy height estimation using remote sensing techniques.
Evaluating GEDI for quantifying forest structure across a gradient of degradation in Amazonian rainforests
Using GEDI spaceborne lidar to quantify forest structure across degradation gradients in Amazonian rainforests.
Monitoring, modelling and managing beaver (Castor fiber) populations in the River Otter catchment, Great Britain
Predicted beaver population growth—recent surveys have confirmed these forecasts were accurate.
Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests
Evidence that active restoration can double the rate of carbon recovery compared to natural regeneration.
When Do More Species Maximize More Ecosystem Services?
Exploring how maximising multiple ecosystem functions requires greater species diversity, since no single species contributes to all functions.
Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo
High-resolution carbon mapping across Sabah to guide conservation priorities and restoration investment.
All Publications
Estimating canopy height in tropical forests: Integrating airborne LiDAR and multi-spectral optical data with machine learning
Evaluating GEDI for quantifying forest structure across a gradient of degradation in Amazonian rainforests
Repeated drone photogrammetry surveys demonstrate that reconstructed canopy heights are sensitive to wind speed but relatively insensitive to illumination conditions
Tree growth and survival are more sensitive to high rainfall than drought in an aseasonal forest in Malaysia
Biodiversity consequences of long-term active forest restoration in selectively-logged tropical rainforests
The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests
Positive coexistence of water voles and beaver: water vole expansion in a beaver engineered wetland
Does forest heterogeneity affect mean throughfall for regenerating secondary forests on Borneo?
Demographic consequences of heterogeneity in conspecific density dependence among mast-fruiting tropical trees
Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration
Exploring the dynamics of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence
Monitoring, modelling and managing beaver (Castor fiber) populations in the River Otter catchment, Great Britain
Exploring the causes of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence.
Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems
Beaver: Nature's ecosystem engineers
Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests
Impacts of Four Decades of Forest Loss on Vertebrate Functional Habitat on Borneo
Exploring the role of genetic diversity and relatedness in tree seedling growth and mortality: A multispecies study in a Bornean rainforest
Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally
When Do More Species Maximize More Ecosystem Services?
Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo's structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning
Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo’s structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning
Supplementary material to "Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo’s structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning"
Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo
The importance of species identity and interactions on multifunctionality depends on how ecosystem functions are valued.
Forest diversity promotes individual tree growth in central European forest stands
The value of biodiversity for the functioning of tropical forests: insurance effects during the first decade of the Sabah biodiversity experiment.
Growth rates and relative change in non-structural carbohydrates of dipterocarp seedlings in response to light acclimation
Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why
Soil warming and CO 2 enrichment induce biomass shifts in alpine tree line vegetation
A trait‐based trade‐off between growth and mortality: evidence from 15 tropical tree species using size‐specific relative growth rates
Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels
Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species
The Influence of Variable Rainfall Frequency on Germination and Early Growth of Shade-Tolerant Dipterocarp Seedlings in Borneo
Differential growth responses in seedlings of ten species of Dipterocarpaceae to experimental shading and defoliation
Light-based Regeneration Niches: Evidence from 21 Dipterocarp Species using Size-specific RGRs
Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation
Impacts of logging on density-dependent predation of dipterocarp seeds in a South East Asian rainforest.
The Sabah Biodiversity Experiment: a long-term test of the role of tree diversity in restoring tropical forest structure and functioning.
Positive effects of ectomycorrhizal colonization on growth of seedlings of a tropical tree across a range of forest floor light conditions
Effects of Seed Predators of Different Body Size on Seed Mortality in Bornean Logged Forest
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