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.
September 2017 – A trip to visit another oil palm-based research project in Sumatra, Indonesia
A blog post by BEFTA Programme and Insect Ecology Group PhD student Millie Hood. Also posted at https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/insect-ecology/news An Effortless Trip to EFForTs It was with much excitement that BEFTA Programme members William Foster, Ed Turner, Amy Eycott, Sarah Luke, Millie Hood (University of Cambridge) and Eleanor Slade (University of Oxford), set off…
September 2017 – Insect Identification Course in Sumatra, Indonesia
A blog post by BEFTA Programme and Insect Ecology Group postdoc Amy Eycott. Also posted at https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/insect-ecology/news We ran an insect identification and curation course! This August, Insect Ecology Group members Ed Turner, Amy Eycott, Sarah Luke and Amelia Hood, and Eleanor Slade, from the University of Oxford, ran an insect…