Dominic Martin
@dominic-martin.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research on land systems, conservation, and restoration
Assistant Professor for Resilient Landscapes at Wageningen University and Research 🇳🇱
www.martin.science
Assistant Professor for Resilient Landscapes at Wageningen University and Research 🇳🇱
www.martin.science
How do large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests?
See the first PhD chapter of Lovasoa Rakotozafy, just out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
See the first PhD chapter of Lovasoa Rakotozafy, just out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
How do large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests?
See the first PhD chapter of Lovasoa Rakotozafy, just out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
See the first PhD chapter of Lovasoa Rakotozafy, just out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
PhD position in our Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the effectiveness of freshwater wetlands as climate buffers for biodiversity gain and ecosystem services
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
PhD position in our Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the effectiveness of freshwater wetlands as climate buffers for biodiversity gain and ecosystem services
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
New paper by Kevin Darras “Worldwide #Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms“ now out in Global Ecology and Biogeography!
Huge synthesis effort including our data from Madagascar!
#ecoacoustics #bioacoustics
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Huge synthesis effort including our data from Madagascar!
#ecoacoustics #bioacoustics
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
May 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New paper by Kevin Darras “Worldwide #Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms“ now out in Global Ecology and Biogeography!
Huge synthesis effort including our data from Madagascar!
#ecoacoustics #bioacoustics
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Huge synthesis effort including our data from Madagascar!
#ecoacoustics #bioacoustics
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Huge turnout in Wageningen at the strike against the Dutch government‘s planned budget cuts to #science and #education!
#stopthecuts #science4future
#stopthecuts #science4future
April 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Huge turnout in Wageningen at the strike against the Dutch government‘s planned budget cuts to #science and #education!
#stopthecuts #science4future
#stopthecuts #science4future
Somehow yes - it says posted today but in my bluesky profile they appear at the end. Below they posted it says "Archived from ORIGINAL DATE" and when you click on that you get the message below. Also it covers own tweets only, no retweets or quote tweets.
April 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Somehow yes - it says posted today but in my bluesky profile they appear at the end. Below they posted it says "Archived from ORIGINAL DATE" and when you click on that you get the message below. Also it covers own tweets only, no retweets or quote tweets.
We still have such a long way to go:
Only 4% (!!!) of articles on lemurs in WebOfScience-listed journals is first-authored by Malagasy authors, yet Lemurs only occur in #Madagascar.
Nice article in @biotropica.bsky.social by an all-Malagsy team!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Only 4% (!!!) of articles on lemurs in WebOfScience-listed journals is first-authored by Malagasy authors, yet Lemurs only occur in #Madagascar.
Nice article in @biotropica.bsky.social by an all-Malagsy team!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We still have such a long way to go:
Only 4% (!!!) of articles on lemurs in WebOfScience-listed journals is first-authored by Malagasy authors, yet Lemurs only occur in #Madagascar.
Nice article in @biotropica.bsky.social by an all-Malagsy team!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Only 4% (!!!) of articles on lemurs in WebOfScience-listed journals is first-authored by Malagasy authors, yet Lemurs only occur in #Madagascar.
Nice article in @biotropica.bsky.social by an all-Malagsy team!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
You will know that bricks are an important building material, yet did you know that extracting soil for brick making affects #EcosystemServices and helps Malagasy farmers to adapt to #ClimateChange?
See our new paper led by PhD student Constance Brouillet to learn more!
dx.doi.org/10.1080/2639...
See our new paper led by PhD student Constance Brouillet to learn more!
dx.doi.org/10.1080/2639...
March 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
You will know that bricks are an important building material, yet did you know that extracting soil for brick making affects #EcosystemServices and helps Malagasy farmers to adapt to #ClimateChange?
See our new paper led by PhD student Constance Brouillet to learn more!
dx.doi.org/10.1080/2639...
See our new paper led by PhD student Constance Brouillet to learn more!
dx.doi.org/10.1080/2639...
4-years PhD position in the BRIGHT-Futures project with Prof Ingo Grass at the University of Hohenheim in Germany:
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Smallholder Agriculture
Apply by 24.03.25
www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Smallholder Agriculture
Apply by 24.03.25
www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
4-years PhD position in the BRIGHT-Futures project with Prof Ingo Grass at the University of Hohenheim in Germany:
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Smallholder Agriculture
Apply by 24.03.25
www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Smallholder Agriculture
Apply by 24.03.25
www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...
Open PhD position with the amazing Berta Martín-López
at Leuphana University Lüneburg within our Kili-SES project!
The PhD will focus on understanding the role of initiatives’ values, rules and knowledge for social-ecological transformations at Mount Kilimanjaro.
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
at Leuphana University Lüneburg within our Kili-SES project!
The PhD will focus on understanding the role of initiatives’ values, rules and knowledge for social-ecological transformations at Mount Kilimanjaro.
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
February 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Open PhD position with the amazing Berta Martín-López
at Leuphana University Lüneburg within our Kili-SES project!
The PhD will focus on understanding the role of initiatives’ values, rules and knowledge for social-ecological transformations at Mount Kilimanjaro.
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
at Leuphana University Lüneburg within our Kili-SES project!
The PhD will focus on understanding the role of initiatives’ values, rules and knowledge for social-ecological transformations at Mount Kilimanjaro.
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
Important paper @Biotropica:
The eco-evolutionary history of #Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest #restoration
Indicates that aboveground biomass recovery in Malagasy secondary forests is much slower than in other tropical forests.
doi.org/10.1111/btp.13…
The eco-evolutionary history of #Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest #restoration
Indicates that aboveground biomass recovery in Malagasy secondary forests is much slower than in other tropical forests.
doi.org/10.1111/btp.13…
April 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Important paper @Biotropica:
The eco-evolutionary history of #Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest #restoration
Indicates that aboveground biomass recovery in Malagasy secondary forests is much slower than in other tropical forests.
doi.org/10.1111/btp.13…
The eco-evolutionary history of #Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest #restoration
Indicates that aboveground biomass recovery in Malagasy secondary forests is much slower than in other tropical forests.
doi.org/10.1111/btp.13…
1/9 I listened to a radio piece on the vote for a new Nature Park in #Switzerland 🇨🇭 on Sunday.
The arguments for the park raised are diverse - yet have nothing to do with #biodiversity conservation.
A short thread🧵 with implications for #30by30 & #conservation goals.
👇👇👇
The arguments for the park raised are diverse - yet have nothing to do with #biodiversity conservation.
A short thread🧵 with implications for #30by30 & #conservation goals.
👇👇👇
April 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
1/9 I listened to a radio piece on the vote for a new Nature Park in #Switzerland 🇨🇭 on Sunday.
The arguments for the park raised are diverse - yet have nothing to do with #biodiversity conservation.
A short thread🧵 with implications for #30by30 & #conservation goals.
👇👇👇
The arguments for the park raised are diverse - yet have nothing to do with #biodiversity conservation.
A short thread🧵 with implications for #30by30 & #conservation goals.
👇👇👇
Interesting paper in Land Use Policy shows that:
- Agricultural intensification in Laos did not result in land sparing
- Emissions from intensified and expanded agriculture are as high as those from shifting cultivation
#ShiftingCultivation #Carbon #Laos
doi.org/10.1016/j.land…
- Agricultural intensification in Laos did not result in land sparing
- Emissions from intensified and expanded agriculture are as high as those from shifting cultivation
#ShiftingCultivation #Carbon #Laos
doi.org/10.1016/j.land…
April 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Interesting paper in Land Use Policy shows that:
- Agricultural intensification in Laos did not result in land sparing
- Emissions from intensified and expanded agriculture are as high as those from shifting cultivation
#ShiftingCultivation #Carbon #Laos
doi.org/10.1016/j.land…
- Agricultural intensification in Laos did not result in land sparing
- Emissions from intensified and expanded agriculture are as high as those from shifting cultivation
#ShiftingCultivation #Carbon #Laos
doi.org/10.1016/j.land…
This calls for a critical and contextualized appraisal of the continuation of shifting cultivation, as well as the transition away from it, when designing land system policies that work for people and nature.
April 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This calls for a critical and contextualized appraisal of the continuation of shifting cultivation, as well as the transition away from it, when designing land system policies that work for people and nature.
Looking at transition-region pairs, we see that transitions to perennial plantation are most common, or have at least been most commonly studied, in South-East Asia, while transitions to pasture are common in Latin America.
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Looking at transition-region pairs, we see that transitions to perennial plantation are most common, or have at least been most commonly studied, in South-East Asia, while transitions to pasture are common in Latin America.
The systematically-identified articles used for the archetype validation are from across the tropics; however, shifting cultivation transitions are most commonly studied in South-East Asia.
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The systematically-identified articles used for the archetype validation are from across the tropics; however, shifting cultivation transitions are most commonly studied in South-East Asia.
Higher expected land rents, resulting from increased market access, crop price surges, secure land tenure and state interventions, are the main drivers of archetypical transitions to perennial plantation crops, agroforestry, non-perennial crops & wood plantation.
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Higher expected land rents, resulting from increased market access, crop price surges, secure land tenure and state interventions, are the main drivers of archetypical transitions to perennial plantation crops, agroforestry, non-perennial crops & wood plantation.
Using an archetype approach, we identified and validated eight 'archetypical shifting cultivation transitions' and reviewed their drivers and consequences.
These are the following eight:
These are the following eight:
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Using an archetype approach, we identified and validated eight 'archetypical shifting cultivation transitions' and reviewed their drivers and consequences.
These are the following eight:
These are the following eight:
Shifting cultivation, also referred to as 'slash-and-burn' or 'swidden agriculture', covers 280 M ha across the tropics, particularly close to forest frontiers.
Smallholder farmers apply a cycle of clearing, cultivating and fallowing to grow rice, maize, cassava or other crops.
Smallholder farmers apply a cycle of clearing, cultivating and fallowing to grow rice, maize, cassava or other crops.
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Shifting cultivation, also referred to as 'slash-and-burn' or 'swidden agriculture', covers 280 M ha across the tropics, particularly close to forest frontiers.
Smallholder farmers apply a cycle of clearing, cultivating and fallowing to grow rice, maize, cassava or other crops.
Smallholder farmers apply a cycle of clearing, cultivating and fallowing to grow rice, maize, cassava or other crops.
What happens after shifting cultivation?
Our new paper in @PaN_BES conceptualizes eight archetypes of shifting cultivation transitions and reviews their drivers and consequences.
What did we find? A thread 🧵:
Paper:Summary:
relationalthinkingblog.com/?p=5064 doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…
Our new paper in @PaN_BES conceptualizes eight archetypes of shifting cultivation transitions and reviews their drivers and consequences.
What did we find? A thread 🧵:
Paper:Summary:
relationalthinkingblog.com/?p=5064 doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What happens after shifting cultivation?
Our new paper in @PaN_BES conceptualizes eight archetypes of shifting cultivation transitions and reviews their drivers and consequences.
What did we find? A thread 🧵:
Paper:Summary:
relationalthinkingblog.com/?p=5064 doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…
Our new paper in @PaN_BES conceptualizes eight archetypes of shifting cultivation transitions and reviews their drivers and consequences.
What did we find? A thread 🧵:
Paper:Summary:
relationalthinkingblog.com/?p=5064 doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…
3) We outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy.
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
3) We outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy.
2) Drawing from existing case studies, we show how projects that align with local people's preferences and are implemented through inclusive governance are more likely to lead to improved social, ecological, and environmental outcomes.
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
2) Drawing from existing case studies, we show how projects that align with local people's preferences and are implemented through inclusive governance are more likely to lead to improved social, ecological, and environmental outcomes.
1) We overlay existing global restoration priority maps, population, and the Human Development Index (HDI) to show that approximately 1.4 billion people, disproportionately belonging to groups with low HDI, live in areas identified as being of high restoration priority.
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
1) We overlay existing global restoration priority maps, population, and the Human Development Index (HDI) to show that approximately 1.4 billion people, disproportionately belonging to groups with low HDI, live in areas identified as being of high restoration priority.
Happy to share our #paper "How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration" now out in #Bioscience
Paper:Summary:We make 3 key points - a thread 🧵:
#Restoration #Equity #Biodiversity
bit.ly/3FTsTck doi.org/10.1093/biosci…
Paper:Summary:We make 3 key points - a thread 🧵:
#Restoration #Equity #Biodiversity
bit.ly/3FTsTck doi.org/10.1093/biosci…
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Happy to share our #paper "How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration" now out in #Bioscience
Paper:Summary:We make 3 key points - a thread 🧵:
#Restoration #Equity #Biodiversity
bit.ly/3FTsTck doi.org/10.1093/biosci…
Paper:Summary:We make 3 key points - a thread 🧵:
#Restoration #Equity #Biodiversity
bit.ly/3FTsTck doi.org/10.1093/biosci…
Interested to learn how tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem function in oil palm? 🌴🌴🌴
Prof @ClaraZemp from @UniNeuchatel will give a talk on the topic @uzh_geo @UZH_Science this Friday 14th of October 15:00 at Irchel campus in room Y26-H79.
Please share!
Prof @ClaraZemp from @UniNeuchatel will give a talk on the topic @uzh_geo @UZH_Science this Friday 14th of October 15:00 at Irchel campus in room Y26-H79.
Please share!
April 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Interested to learn how tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem function in oil palm? 🌴🌴🌴
Prof @ClaraZemp from @UniNeuchatel will give a talk on the topic @uzh_geo @UZH_Science this Friday 14th of October 15:00 at Irchel campus in room Y26-H79.
Please share!
Prof @ClaraZemp from @UniNeuchatel will give a talk on the topic @uzh_geo @UZH_Science this Friday 14th of October 15:00 at Irchel campus in room Y26-H79.
Please share!
Stellar talk by @siyuq @BiogeoBerlin on geographies of conservation funding.
Some of the work is already published here:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.1…
Some of the work is already published here:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.1…
April 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Stellar talk by @siyuq @BiogeoBerlin on geographies of conservation funding.
Some of the work is already published here:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.1…
Some of the work is already published here:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.1…