Category Archives: Ecology

How birds can help farms and forests in the Philippines

Posted on 19th July 2024 by Marion

Brilliant PhD candidate Jelaine Gan has been developing some cool comics, in collaboration with Jessica Stutman. Printed for engagement with local communities in her field study sites (pdf: in Filipino , in English). The work highlights the functional role of … Continue reading →

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Trees on farms – agroforestry research at Newcastle University

Posted on 18th July 2024 by Marion

Since a couple of years, we have been following the establishment of our agroforestry trial plot, Cockle Park (Agriculture Facilities | School of Natural and Environmental Sciences | Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)), A mixture of tree lines comprising poplar and willow … Continue reading →

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From the field #South_Africa

Posted on 27th April 2018 by Marion

Funded by the Royal Society, I was travelling to Southern Africa to do measure & map quality of crop and non-crop habitats. Yes, that’s right. I have started to venture beyond the forest/woodland/shrub/savannah edge and into that thing called matrix … Continue reading →

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