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Edgar C. Turner is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology and related subfields. The subfields of study include Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling.

Their main topics of research incorporate Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, and Animal and Plant Science Education.

Edgar C. Turner's scholarly output includes recent papers that highlight various aspects of ecology and environmental sciences. Notable recent publications are:

  • How butterflies keep their cool: Physical and ecological traits influence thermoregulatory ability and population trends (2020), Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Managing Oil Palm Plantations More Sustainably: Large-Scale Experiments Within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme (2020), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Localised climate change defines ant communities in human-modified tropical landscapes (2020), Functional Ecology
  • Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs (2024), Nature

The researcher frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Sarah H. Luke, William A. Foster, Martina F. Harianja, Jean-Pierre Caliman, and Holly Barclay.

Edgar C. Turner has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), People and Nature, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Journal of Insect Conservation, and Journal of Animal Ecology.

Best Publications

  • The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate.

    Stephen R. Hardwick;Ralf Toumi;Marion Pfeifer;Edgar C. Turner

  • Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia

    William A. Foster;Jake L. Snaddon;Edgar C. Turner;Tom M. Fayle;Tom M. Fayle

  • A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project

    Robert M. Ewers;Raphael K. Didham;Lenore Fahrig;Gonçalo Ferraz;Gonçalo Ferraz

  • Scientific research on animal biodiversity is systematically biased towards vertebrates and temperate regions.

    Mark A Titley;Jake L Snaddon;Edgar Clive Turner

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf-litter

    Tom M. Fayle;Edgar C. Turner;Jake L. Snaddon;Vun Khen Chey

  • The impact of forest conversion to oil palm on arthropod abundance and biomass in Sabah, Malaysia

    Edgar C. Turner;William A. Foster

  • Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

    Robert M. Ewers;Michael J. W. Boyle;Rosalind A. Gleave;Nichola S. Plowman

  • Functional structure of ant and termite assemblages in old growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo

    Sarah H. Luke;Sarah H. Luke;Tom M. Fayle;Tom M. Fayle;Paul Eggleton;Edgar C. Turner;Edgar C. Turner

  • Children's Perceptions of Rainforest Biodiversity: Which Animals Have the Lion's Share of Environmental Awareness?

    Jake L. Snaddon;Edgar C. Turner;Edgar C. Turner;William A. Foster

  • Logging disturbance shifts net primary productivity and its allocation in Bornean tropical forests

    Terhi Riutta;Yadvinder Malhi;Lip Khoon Kho;Lip Khoon Kho;Toby R. Marthews

  • Mapping the structure of Borneo's tropical forests across a degradation gradient

    M Pfeifer;L Kor;R Nilus;Edgar Clive Turner

  • Oil Palm Research in Context: Identifying the Need for Biodiversity Assessment

    Edgar C. Turner;Jake L. Snaddon;Tom M. Fayle;William A. Foster

  • Deadwood biomass: an underestimated carbon stock in degraded tropical forests?

    Marion Pfeifer;Veronique Lefebvre;Edgar Turner;Jeremy Cusack

  • The impacts of habitat disturbance on adult and larval dragonflies (Odonata) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

    Sarah H. Luke;Rory A. Dow;Stephen Butler;Chey Vun Khen

  • The effects of catchment and riparian forest quality on stream environmental conditions across a tropical rainforest and oil palm landscape in Malaysian Borneo

    Sarah H. Luke;Holly Barclay;Holly Barclay;Kawi Bidin;Vun Khen Chey

  • Understory vegetation in oil palm plantations benefits soil biodiversity and decomposition rates

    Adham Ashton-Butt;Anak A. K. Aryawan;Amelia S. C. Hood;Mohammad Naim

  • Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo's structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning

    Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Gregory P. Asner;Michele Dalponte;Philip G. Brodrick

  • Whole-ecosystem experimental manipulations of tropical forests

    Tom M. Fayle;Tom M. Fayle;Tom M. Fayle;Edgar C. Turner;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Robert M. Ewers

  • Effects of monoculture and polyculture farming in oil palm smallholdings on terrestrial arthropod diversity

    Amal Ghazali;Siti Asmah;Muhammad Syafiq;Muhammad S. Yahya

  • Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of

    William A. Foster;Jake L. Snaddon;Edgar C. Turner;Tom M. Fayle

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
William A. Foster
William A. Foster University of Cambridge
Robert M. Ewers
Robert M. Ewers Imperial College London
Eleanor M. Slade
Eleanor M. Slade Nanyang Technological University
Paul Eggleton
Paul Eggleton Natural History Museum
Matthew J. Struebig
Matthew J. Struebig University of Kent
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Marion Pfeifer
Marion Pfeifer Newcastle University
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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