The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme
The BEFTA Programme investigates management strategies to support biodiversity and ecosystem processes in oil palm landscapes. The overall aim of the BEFTA Programme is to test whether increasing landscape structural complexity can enhance oil palm sustainability at little or no cost to yields and profitability. Uniquely, the BEFTA Programme is a collaboration between universities, research institutes, and the oil palm industry, ensuring that management practices are realistic and implementable by land managers.
ATBC Asia Pacific Chapter presentation
This week’s meeting of the Asia Pacific Chapter of the ATBC, held in Bandar Aceh, Indonesia was inspiring. A wide range of different talks and posters were presented by participants working in diverse fields across South East Asia. Meetings like this give you a chance to meet up with old…
Setting up the plots
Over the last month, the BEFTA team has been working hard to finish surveying and setting up the plots. This is now complete and marks the end of the first, and perhaps most-important, stage of the project. Key to this was choosing areas that were similar to each other in…