Forest research
Peer-Reviewed Science

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.

2025

Estimating canopy height in tropical forests: Integrating airborne LiDAR and multi-spectral optical data with machine learning

Sustainable Environment
2025

Evaluating GEDI for quantifying forest structure across a gradient of degradation in Amazonian rainforests

Environmental Research Letters
2025

Repeated drone photogrammetry surveys demonstrate that reconstructed canopy heights are sensitive to wind speed but relatively insensitive to illumination conditions

International Journal of Remote Sensing
2024

Tree growth and survival are more sensitive to high rainfall than drought in an aseasonal forest in Malaysia

Communications Earth & Environment
2023

Biodiversity consequences of long-term active forest restoration in selectively-logged tropical rainforests

Forest Ecology and Management
2023

The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2023

Positive coexistence of water voles and beaver: water vole expansion in a beaver engineered wetland

Mammal Communications
2022

Does forest heterogeneity affect mean throughfall for regenerating secondary forests on Borneo?

Publication
2022

Demographic consequences of heterogeneity in conspecific density dependence among mast-fruiting tropical trees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022

Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration

Ecological Entomology
2022

Exploring the dynamics of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence

Hydrological Processes
2022

Monitoring, modelling and managing beaver (Castor fiber) populations in the River Otter catchment, Great Britain

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
2022

Exploring the causes of flow attenuation at a beaver dam sequence.

Publication
2022

Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
2021

Beaver: Nature's ecosystem engineers

WIREs Water
2020

Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests

Science
2020

Impacts of Four Decades of Forest Loss on Vertebrate Functional Habitat on Borneo

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
2020

Exploring the role of genetic diversity and relatedness in tree seedling growth and mortality: A multispecies study in a Bornean rainforest

Journal of Ecology
2020

Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally

Publication
2019

When Do More Species Maximize More Ecosystem Services?

Trends in Plant Science
2018

Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo's structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning

Biogeosciences
2018

Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo’s structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning

Publication
2018

Supplementary material to "Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo’s structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning"

Publication
2018

Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo

Biological Conservation
2017

The importance of species identity and interactions on multifunctionality depends on how ecosystem functions are valued.

Ecology
2017

Forest diversity promotes individual tree growth in central European forest stands

Journal of Applied Ecology
2016

The value of biodiversity for the functioning of tropical forests: insurance effects during the first decade of the Sabah biodiversity experiment.

Proceedings. Biological sciences
2016

Growth rates and relative change in non-structural carbohydrates of dipterocarp seedlings in response to light acclimation

Plant Ecology & Diversity
2015

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

The Journal of ecology
2015

Soil warming and CO 2 enrichment induce biomass shifts in alpine tree line vegetation

Glob Change Biol
2014

A trait‐based trade‐off between growth and mortality: evidence from 15 tropical tree species using size‐specific relative growth rates

Ecology and Evolution
2014

Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels

Nature Climate change
2013

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

Publication
2013

The Influence of Variable Rainfall Frequency on Germination and Early Growth of Shade-Tolerant Dipterocarp Seedlings in Borneo

Publication
2012

Differential growth responses in seedlings of ten species of Dipterocarpaceae to experimental shading and defoliation

Publication
2012

Light-based Regeneration Niches: Evidence from 21 Dipterocarp Species using Size-specific RGRs

Publication
2012

Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation

Publication
2011

Impacts of logging on density-dependent predation of dipterocarp seeds in a South East Asian rainforest.

Publication
2011

The Sabah Biodiversity Experiment: a long-term test of the role of tree diversity in restoring tropical forest structure and functioning.

Publication
2011

Positive effects of ectomycorrhizal colonization on growth of seedlings of a tropical tree across a range of forest floor light conditions

Publication
2010

Effects of Seed Predators of Different Body Size on Seed Mortality in Bornean Logged Forest

Publication

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