Megan K Sullivan
@meganaceae.bsky.social
conservation scientist in tropical ecology
dynamics 🌾🌱🌳 & disturbance 🪚🪵
with a passion for plant-animal interactions 🐘🍈
currently: HMEI Postdoc @Princeton
alum: @Fulbright @Yale
she/her
https://meganksullivan.weebly.com/
dynamics 🌾🌱🌳 & disturbance 🪚🪵
with a passion for plant-animal interactions 🐘🍈
currently: HMEI Postdoc @Princeton
alum: @Fulbright @Yale
she/her
https://meganksullivan.weebly.com/
[4/5] If we want to model or quantify the ecological value of #forestElephants accurately, especially in contexts like #rewilding, #carbonOffset markets, or #biodiversityMonitoring, we need to better account for this context-dependency!
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
[4/5] If we want to model or quantify the ecological value of #forestElephants accurately, especially in contexts like #rewilding, #carbonOffset markets, or #biodiversityMonitoring, we need to better account for this context-dependency!
[3/5] What's the takeaway?
🌟Context matters!🌟
Models that inform nature-based climate solutions and biodiversity crediting schemes often assume that elephants have consistent, generalizable ecological roles. Our results challenge that assumption.
🌟Context matters!🌟
Models that inform nature-based climate solutions and biodiversity crediting schemes often assume that elephants have consistent, generalizable ecological roles. Our results challenge that assumption.
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
[3/5] What's the takeaway?
🌟Context matters!🌟
Models that inform nature-based climate solutions and biodiversity crediting schemes often assume that elephants have consistent, generalizable ecological roles. Our results challenge that assumption.
🌟Context matters!🌟
Models that inform nature-based climate solutions and biodiversity crediting schemes often assume that elephants have consistent, generalizable ecological roles. Our results challenge that assumption.
[2/5] Our new Oikos study found that:
1. Forest elephants disperse fewer seeds than in past studies
2. Species + traits of dispersed seeds vary strongly among sites
3. Elephants often disperse plants with high carbon storage potential, but the magnitude of this effect varies by site.
1. Forest elephants disperse fewer seeds than in past studies
2. Species + traits of dispersed seeds vary strongly among sites
3. Elephants often disperse plants with high carbon storage potential, but the magnitude of this effect varies by site.
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
[2/5] Our new Oikos study found that:
1. Forest elephants disperse fewer seeds than in past studies
2. Species + traits of dispersed seeds vary strongly among sites
3. Elephants often disperse plants with high carbon storage potential, but the magnitude of this effect varies by site.
1. Forest elephants disperse fewer seeds than in past studies
2. Species + traits of dispersed seeds vary strongly among sites
3. Elephants often disperse plants with high carbon storage potential, but the magnitude of this effect varies by site.
TL;DR -
🪵 We found negative impacts of very-low intensity selective logging on seedling dynamics up to 4 years post-logging, and most of those impacts disappeared 14 years post-logging.
🐘 Elephant trails had both negative impacts on seedling survival and positive impacts on seedling recruitment.
🪵 We found negative impacts of very-low intensity selective logging on seedling dynamics up to 4 years post-logging, and most of those impacts disappeared 14 years post-logging.
🐘 Elephant trails had both negative impacts on seedling survival and positive impacts on seedling recruitment.
April 5, 2024 at 7:46 AM
TL;DR -
🪵 We found negative impacts of very-low intensity selective logging on seedling dynamics up to 4 years post-logging, and most of those impacts disappeared 14 years post-logging.
🐘 Elephant trails had both negative impacts on seedling survival and positive impacts on seedling recruitment.
🪵 We found negative impacts of very-low intensity selective logging on seedling dynamics up to 4 years post-logging, and most of those impacts disappeared 14 years post-logging.
🐘 Elephant trails had both negative impacts on seedling survival and positive impacts on seedling recruitment.