Our paper on crop and landscape heterogeneity and agrobiodiversity in Ecology Letters is now a Top Cited Article (2024). Part of my PhD work and great to see it gaining attention! 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Delighted to be part of this fantastic group of new Associate Editor mentees – looking forward to contributing and learning together!
Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're thrilled to announce that we have 7 new Associate Editor mentees joining us! 📚🧪 Over the next 2 years, they will be mentored by a Senior Editor to develop their knowledge of the peer review process and handle manuscripts 💡🌎 Get to know them below 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/03/w...
“We’re missing an opportunity to leverage tree crops to address some of the biggest environmental and social challenges of our time,” says Carlos Martínez-Núñez, a researcher at @ebdonana.bsky.social and coordinator of the study. Press release: www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/... Article 👇
Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development - Nature Sustainability
Perennial woody crops are important sources of food that can provide ecosystem benefits through their long-lived nature and structural complexity. This Perspective provides a roadmap to harness the po...
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We are proud to share that recent research from #TEELab at Asian School of the Environment, NTU, was featured in The Straits Times as part of the SG60 special on Singapore’s “City in Nature” vision 🌳🏢🌳 teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/bi...
Biodiversity in the city: TEE Lab research featured in The Straits Times
We are proud to share that recent research from the Tropical Ecology and Entomology Lab (TEE Lab) at the Asian School of the Environment (ASE), NTU, was featured in The Straits Times as part of the SG...
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🌿 Excited to share our new study showing that integrating urban agriculture with other green spaces can enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functions in cities! 👏 Led by Emilio, Zeyu & Sihao 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1002/2688... #UrbanEcology @teelab.bsky.social
Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Urban agriculture is in an intermediate state between traditional urban green spaces and conventional rural farms in terms of environmental impacts, so that its contribution to urban sustainability r....
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So proud of these two amazing Dr's and excited for their next adventures ❤️ 🤩🎓🎉 @teelab.bsky.social NTU Asian School of the Environment first graduating PhD students 🥳 @tharakasp.bsky.social @xinruiong.bsky.social teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/ce...
🎓 Celebrating Dr. ong Xin Rui and dr. Tharaka S. Priyadarshana’s Graduation from TEELab 🎉
This month, we proudly celebrated the graduation of Dr. Ong Xin Rui and Dr. Tharaka S. Priyadarshana, who have both been conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)! Their achievements are a te...
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Today, we have a guest post by Tharaka S. Priyadarshana, a Research Fellow, who writes about how adding vegetation to road verges can improve butterfly population sizes. Read the article here: happyeconews.com/city-road-ve... #happyeconews @tharakasp.bsky.social
City Road Verges Rich in Flowers and Cut Less Often Improve Butterfly Diversity | Happy Eco News
City Road Verges Rich in Flowers and Cut Less Often Improve Butterfly Diversity. New research led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) reveals that simple and space-efficient...
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How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
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Butterflies benefit from roadside greenery in cities, finds Singapore study @teelab.bsky.social @tharakasp.bsky.social #insects #urbanisation #connectivity #entomology #butterflies www.ntu.edu.sg/research/res...
Butterflies benefit from roadside greenery in cities, finds Singapore study
Reducing the cutting of plants in road verges and having a greater variety of flowering plants in them improves butterfly numbers and diversity.
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Huge congratulations to Dr. @xinruiong.bsky.social & Dr. @tharakasp.bsky.social on receiving their graduation scrolls and transcripts! A proud moment for their supervisor @eleslade.bsky.social #TEELab
Beyond bees and butterflies: Why SE Asia must boost insect consevation. Our article in the Straits Times. teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/me... @xinruiong.bsky.social @teelab.bsky.social #insects #Entomology #conservation
(Media Feature) Science Talk: Beyond bees and butterflies – why South-east Asia must step up on insect conservation
We had the amazing opportunity to contribute a commentary for The Straits Times on our recent publication in Ecology Letters, "Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Con...
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My 4th PhD chapter is out! Flower-rich, less-cut road verges support urban butterflies🦋 authors.elsevier.com/a/1khHFcUG5a... teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/fl... doi.org/10.1016/j.la... 🙏 @eleslade.bsky.social @teelab.bsky.social
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Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n
Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorp...
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Flower-rich, less-cut road verges support #butterflies in #urban environments. Our new paper in Landscape and Urban Planning using causal inference methods to assess #biodiversity in urban green spaces. Led by @tharakasp.bsky.social @teelab.bsky.social 🦋🌼🛣 teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/fl...
Flower-rich, less-cut road verges support butterflies in urban environments
Urban road verges, often overlooked as simple roadside greenery, can serve as valuable habitats for butterflies and other insect pollinators (Figure 1). Our recent study explored how these narrow gree...
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🎉Heartiest Congratulations, Dr @tharakasp.bsky.social!!! teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/he...
🎉Heartiest Congratulations, Dr Tharaka!!
We are super happy and proud of Dr Tharaka S. Priyadarshana and his successful defense of his PhD thesis, "Conserving invertebrate biodiversity in agricultural and urban landscapes". His research is a...
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🎉 Congratulations, Dr. @tharakasp.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD! ✨ Your dedication to conserving #invertebrate #biodiversity in #agricultural & #urban landscapes is truly inspiring! Proud supervisor @eleslade.bsky.social 😎 #TEELab #phdunlocked
📢 Exciting news! 🥳 Dr. @xinruiong.bsky.social has successfully defended her PhD on advancing #insect #conservation in Southeast Asia 🪲🧬 #TEELab @eleslade.bsky.social teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/dr...
🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. @xinruiong.bsky.social on successfully defending her PhD! ✨ Her work on #integrative approaches to address data, knowledge & capacity gaps in SE Asia #insect #conservation is a major step for #biodiversity research. Proud supervisor @eleslade.bsky.social 😎 #TEELab #phd
Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
Do you ignore the effects of #ConfoundingVariables in your models? Do you remove correlated variables because of a statistical test rather than causal reasoning? If so, read this paper by @jebyrnes.bsky.social and @lauradee.bsky.social! #AcademicSky 🧪🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables
As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...
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📖Published📖 Our new research article demonstrates how you might combine expert knowledge with causal diagrams and superpopulation models to mitigate geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data 🌎 🧪 Read it here 👇 https://buff.ly/3C2ZKws
New study out in @science.org combining a massive #biodiversity dataset from SAFE Project & SEARRP science, showing that logged forest is still valuable for biodiversity. Happy that @teelab.bsky.social #dungbeetle data could contribute to this. Read more here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure
The impacts of degradation and deforestation on tropical forests are poorly understood, particularly at landscape scales. We present an extensive ecosystem analysis of the impacts of logging and conve...
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This review provides an overview of recent developments in computational methods in #LandscapeEcology It covers topics like spatial patterns, connectivity, landscape genetics, and more. Read the full paper: https://buff.ly/41xU6wx #Ecology #ComputationalMethods #Research
Grateful to contribute to this incredible project published in @naturesustain.bsky.social, led by Carlos, showcasing how woody crops are vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 🌍 🌳 Check out the full paper here: rdcu.be/d39od #TreeCrops #Sustainability #SDGs @teelab.bsky.social
Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development
Nature Sustainability - Perennial woody crops are important sources of food that can provide ecosystem benefits through their long-lived nature and structural complexity. This Perspective provides...
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Happy New Year from @teelab.bsky.social. Here's to more fun in 2025! teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/ha...
Happy Holidays & Goodbye 2024!
Towards the end of 2024, the TEE Lab went for a scenic late afternoon walk along the Southern Ridges before ending it off with a delicious Vietnamese dinner. Check out this photo stream our fun walk a...
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Ushering in 2025 is our latest publication in Ecology Letters! Through a quantitative assessment of insect occurrence records, insect studies and '#conservation' posts, we identified gaps in five areas and suggest potential solutions to enable insect conservation efforts in Southeast Asia. (1/n)
Threats to validity (with helpful DAGs) journals.lww.com/epidem/fullt...
A Graphical Catalog of Threats to Validity: Linking Social... : Epidemiology
lenging, but these skills are often glossed over in training. Campbell and Stanley’s framework for causal inference has been extraordinarily influential in social science training programs but has rec...
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OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)
Full Luxury Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with brms
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Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally - check our new study across the 500 largest cities worldwide, recently out in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s41... 🥵🍃🏙️🏠🌐🌳#heatstress #climatechange #greenspace #urbandesign #luxuryeffect
Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally - Nature Communications
A 1.5-fold gap exists in green space cooling adaptation between cities in the Global South and North. Enhancing urban green space quality and quantity offers vast potential for improving outdoor cooli...
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Theorist bridge trolls barking at you to formally connect theory to data? Wondering how, without troll magic? We can help! "Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution" With @dominikdeffner.bsky.social @natyfedorova.bsky.social Jeff Andrews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
