Delighted to share our new paper 'Hums in the humus: opportunities and challenges for soil #ecoacoustics'
and Alex Taylor's first 'first author' paper!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mRHK_3sj9...
... with an all-star soil ecoacoustics team!
New research on the impact of oil palm oil ground-dwelling arthropods (insects, spiders, and similar creatures) in Liberia and recommendations for management strategies to protect them.
@jonnytimperley.bsky.social
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/what-is-the-...
Thank you so much for sharing!
And thank you to our Liberian colleagues, especially the Government of Liberia's Forestry Development Authority, Golden Veroleum Liberia, the University of Liberia, and the communities with whom we work in Sinoe County.
Huge thanks to co-authors including Michael Pashkevich, Edgar Turner, @broganlpett.bsky.social, Benedictus Freeman, and Cicely Marshall, and for the support from @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social during my MPhil.
We found differences in arthropod order-level composition, spider abundance, species richness, and species-level composition across study systems. This study is important for arthropod conservation and oil palm management, as terrestrial arthropods provide key ecosystem functions
This work was developed from Chapter 1 of my MPhil thesis at @uniofcam.bsky.social. The study focuses on the ecological impacts of converting natural rainforest to traditional ‘country palm’ farms and industrial oil palm monocultures.
My first paper has just been published!
"Traditional and industrial approaches to oil palm alter the biodiversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in Liberia (West Africa)"
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#arthropod #oilpalm #tropical #conservation #Liberia
Photo showing two AudioMoth devices equipped with GPS Hats and piezo soil sensors.
We're experimenting with GPS-synchronised soil recordings. The sensors are piezo transducers incorporating a JFET amplifier which plug directly into the AudioMoth's 3.5mm socket. The AudioMoth GPS Hat provides GPS synchronisation. #bioacoustics
