We were delighted to get some nice press coverage, both internationally and locally
Haley has also created some wonderful colouring-in factsheets to accompany this research - download them here!
The hidden benefits of chocolate: new paper published on the biodiversity of cacao agroforests15/5/2021 Excited to announce the publication of our latest paper, led by PhD student Haley Arnold and published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. The findings show that sustainably grown cacao is a conservation solution which can support both people and nature, and that cacao agroforests and secondary forest can enrich regional biodiversity. Haley has written a great post summarising the findings for the Applied Ecology Blog.
We were delighted to get some nice press coverage, both internationally and locally Haley has also created some wonderful colouring-in factsheets to accompany this research - download them here!
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By Haley Arnold Every year vast areas of land are deforested. At the same time, some previously deforested areas regrow - either as naturally regenerating “secondary forests” or as plantations [1,2]. Long-standing patterns of forest losses and gains have led to an increase in secondary and plantation forests relative to old “primary” forests which have been undisturbed for centuries.
Parallel to this shift in forest cover, the species found within forests are changing rapidly over time. The species that make up forest communities fluctuates naturally as forests recover over time, as well as with to human activities (eg. when species are introduced to new areas, when a species is driven to local extinction or when populations move to avoid disturbances or changes in climate). |
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