After the weeks of defenses and busy days in the lecture halls (to be reported soon), we returned to the field work and publications.

Today (hopefully), Krystof’s exciting new paper goes online—exploring the effects of forest fragmentation on bird diversity in Papua New Guinea. The paper shows that decreases in bird functional diversity due to forest loss can be compensated by open-habitat species replacing sedentary birds. Shifts in trait composition reveal declines in avian ecosystem functions in fragmented primary and secondary rainforests.

Dataset on which this project is based was collected few years ago, and funded by Legi Sam via GEF Small Grants Programme. We are thankfull to all the local assitants who contributed with their local knowledge to this work, and to all funders for the finances allowing the field work. Congratulations to Krystof Korejs for leading this dataset a full paper.

Pdf of the paper (https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.70083)